Photostream : State Funeral of Former Czech President Vaclav Havel

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Czech ex-president Vaclav Havel to be buried on Friday

  The funeral of former Czech President Vaclav Havel, one of the leading anti-Communist dissidents of the 1970s and 1980s, will take place on Friday, the CTK news agency said. The former president, a former chain smoker with chronic respiratory problems, had been in failing health in the past few months. He died on Sunday morning […]

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Czechs, world leaders mourn Vaclav Havel

  PRAGUE  — Czechs joined their leaders and foreign politicians Sunday in paying tribute to Vaclav Havel, who led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that peacefully toppled communism in the former Czechoslovakia. A black flag flew over Prague Castle, the presidential seat, while Czechs lit candles to remember the the dissident playwright who helped kick off the fall […]

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Former Czech President Vaclav Havel dies

  PRAGUE  —  Vaclav Havel, a dissident playwright who was jailed by Communists and then went on to lead the bloodless “Velvet Revolution” and become Czech president, died at 75 on Sunday. The former chain smoker, who survived several operations for lung cancer and a burst intestine in the late 1990s that nearly killed him and left him […]

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