Czechs recall Velvet Revolution
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The 15th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist Party is marked by Czechs.
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BUCHAREST, Romania  - Dozens of former fighters in the 1989 uprising that toppled communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu rallied Friday in a central Bucharest square to demand that authorities investigate alleged frauds in last Sunday's parliamentary and presidential elections.
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Ukraine marked the second anniversary of  its "Orange Revolution" with a minimum of fanfare on Wednesday,  with voters disillusioned by what they see as the failure of  its quarrelling leaders to bring about real change.
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LESKOVAC, Serbia -- The crumbling factory walls and idle smokestacks that dominate this town are replicated across Eastern Europe, symbols of once-proud industrial centers that fell into decline almost as soon as the Berlin Wall came down.
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Senior Czech politicians are angry over  Washington's suggestion that Russians be allowed to staff a  radar station in the former Soviet satellite.
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Among the orange ribbons, rabbit ears and dyed hair of the Ukrainian students who have become the happy face of the Orange Revolution, a darker color has become more prominent: the green camouflage uniforms of ...
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KIEV, Ukraine, Nov. 27 -- The Orange Revolution, strangely, has been kindest to the man who played the villain to the waves of protesters who rolled onto the streets of  this capital two years ago. Viktor Yanukovych, once cast as the bluff hack who tried to steal Ukraine's presidential election, is...
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Dozens of former fighters in the 1989 uprising that toppled Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu rallied Friday in a central Bucharest square to demand that authorities investigate alleged fraud in the country's general election.
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Hundreds of locals rallied in the town of Stavropol in southern Russia on Tuesday, demanding the eviction of ethnic Chechens, witnesses and media said, reviving memories of racial riots in other parts of the country.
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PRAGUE, Nov 24 (IPS) - Millions in Eastern Europe remain convinced that  life was better for them before communism collapsed 15 years ago.
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PRAGUE The former Czech president, Vaclav Havel, and about 100 other international figures have signed a petition accusing President Vladimir Putin of Russia of using the Beslan hostage drama to undermine democracy.
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MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - Communists and other Left-wing opposition forces rallied on Theater Square, in Moscow&#39;s center, on the 87th Bolshevik Revolution anniversary.
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Former President Vaclav Havel today warned Czechs that failure to ratify the European Union constitution would result in them losing their influence over the process of European integration.
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Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni started the official part of a week-long visit to the Czech Republic, a country where he spent 13 years from 1962-1975 and considers as his &quot;second home.&quot;
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Poland will always remember Soviet soldiers who liberated Warsaw 60 years ago, Polish Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski told RIA Novosti in an interview on Monday.
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After the dual destructions wrought by the Holocaust and communism, Eastern European Jewish communal life was little more than a memory 15 years ago.
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Soldiers joined the uprising against Ceausescu in 1989 As many as two million people were killed or persecuted by the former communist authorities in Romania, an official report says.Comment