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    Václav Havel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslav ˈɦavɛl] ; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright and dissident...
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    Václav Havel Airport Prague, formerly Prague Ruzyně International Airport (IATA: PRG, ICAO: LKPR), is an international airport of Prague, the capital of...
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  • Václav Havel was the first President of the Czech Republic. Václav Havel may also refer to: Václav Havel (canoeist), Olympic canoe medallist for Czechoslovakia...
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    a five-year term, with no more than two consecutive terms (2x Václav Havel, 2x Václav Klaus). Since 2013, the president has been elected directly. Some...
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    1996 in Prague) was a Czech dissident, activist, and the first wife of Václav Havel, the last President of Czechoslovakia and first President of the Czech...
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    irregularities in the ODS. During his term as prime minister, President Václav Havel heavily criticized Klaus' policy of voucher privatization of previously...
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  • 1978 by the Czech dramatist, political dissident, and later statesman, Václav Havel. The essay dissects the nature of communist regimes of the time, life...
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  • of the Council of Europe, the Václav Havel Library and the Charta 77 Foundation and is awarded in memory of Václav Havel, former President of Czechoslovakia...
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    Dubček was elected speaker of the federal parliament on 28 December and Václav Havel the President of Czechoslovakia on 29 December 1989. In June 1990, Czechoslovakia...
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    of the prize's funding. Freedom of speech portal Václav Havel Award for Human Rights "The Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent". Human Rights Foundation...
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  • descendants Václav Hollar, graphic artist Vaclav Jelinek, a Czechoslovak spy, who worked in London under the assumed identity of Erwin van Haarlem Václav Jiráček...
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  • Václav Havel (5 October 1920 – 14 December 1979) was a Czechoslovak slalom and sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. He was...
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    later President of democratic Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, Václav Havel spoke in favour of a projected American and Allied invasion of Iraq as...
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    the International PEN Club". "Václav Havel Human Rights Prize". "Václav Havel Library Annual Report 2019". "The Václav Havel Library annual report 2016"...
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    up power in November 1989 after only 10 days of protests. Playwright Václav Havel, its leader and founder, was elected president on December 29, 1989....
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    the dissident movement in Czechoslovakia, represented among others by Václav Havel. The movement sought greater political participation and expression in...
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    awarded the 2019 PEN America /Barbey Freedom to Write Award and the 2020 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. She is one of Time magazine's "100 Most Influential...
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    included Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel; Czech playwright and politician Václav Havel; Kurdish rights advocate Leyla Zana; and Tibetan former political prisoner...
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    are small and not particularly comfortable, so recent presidents (Václav Havel, Václav Klaus and Miloš Zeman) have chosen to live elsewhere. The president...
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    Charter 77 (redirect from Václav Lamser)
    1977. Founding members and architects were Jiří Němec, Václav Benda, Ladislav Hejdánek, Václav Havel, Jan Patočka, Zdeněk Mlynář, Jiří Hájek, Martin Palouš...
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  • intellect Václav Havel. Barton, initially intending a joint biography of Jiří Hájek, Jan Patočka, and Václav Havel, narrowed his focus to Havel's story due...
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    television. Václav Havel Barrandov Terraces Dagmar (novel) "VKOL - kalendárium regionálních osobností REGO - 15. červenec". "Václav Havel - Dagmar". Wikimedia...
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    In the aftermath of the Velvet Revolution, newly elected President Václav Havel announced that "Socialist" would be dropped from the country's official...
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    as head of government. The first president of the Czech Republic was Václav Havel. The current president, Petr Pavel, was sworn into office on 9 March...
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    federal Czechoslovak parliament and contended for the presidency with Václav Havel. The European Parliament awarded Dubček the Sakharov Prize the same year...
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  • fluent in English and Russian language. Václav Klaus was the president proficient in most languages. Václav Havel was fluent in English and used it repeatedly...
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    Machine "Official opening of the Havel Building". European Parliament / The President. Retrieved 23 July 2017. "Václav Havel: Parliament dedicates building...
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    sentenced to 25 years in prison. In October 2022, Kara-Murza was awarded the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza was born in Moscow...
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    Republic Parliament, with Václav Havel emerging as the winner. The election was complicated only by attacks of Republicans against Havel and by bomb threat to...
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  • Memorial to the Late Václav Havel". Georgetown University. 3 October 2013. Malek, Fred (2 October 2013). "Honoring Václav Havel - a man who should inspire...
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