Over protests from Vaclav Havel & others, this nation split into 2 states January 1, 1993
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Czech Republic | Free Speech and Free Press Around the World  Each nation adopted a new constitution on Jan 1, 1993, and the Czech Republic ... freedoms of others, the security of the State, public security, public health, and morals. ... When Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the Czech ... Vaclav Havel, the anti-communist dissident who was elected as the first...
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Czechoslovakia - New World Encyclopedia  Jan 22, 2015 ... 1989-1992, Vclav Havel ... On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and ... Satisfaction among individual ethnic groups within the new state .... in the metropolis soon spilled over to other parts of the country. ... the two countries when Slovakia openly challenged President Havel's...
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Czechoslovakia Breaks in Two, To Wide Regret - NYTimes.com  A multi-ethnic nation born at the end of World War I in the glow of pan-Slavic brotherhood, ... Published: January 1, 1993 ... today split into two countries: Slovakia and the Czech Republic. ... "Living together in one state is over. ... to the Castle," a then seemingly outrageous demand that Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright,...
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Dissolution of Czechoslovakia - Wikipedia  The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia which took effect on 1 January 1993, was an event that saw the self-determined split of the federal state of Czechoslovakia into ... In 1992, the Czech Republic elected Vclav Klaus and others who demanded .... the two states to adopt two national currencies as early as 8 February 1993.
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Dissolution of Czechoslovakia - New World Encyclopedia  Jan 22, 2015 ... In 1992, the Czech public elected Vclav Klaus and others who demanded ... Most of federal assets were divided in the ratio 2 to 1 (the .... It was after this that the teams were then officially split up into Czech Republic national football team ... Separation into two distinct nation states each with their distinctive...
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Vaclav Havel, dissident playwright and former Czech president, dies ...  Dec 18, 2011 ... Vaclav Havel, a Czech writer who was imprisoned by his country's communist rulers, only to become a symbol of freedom and his nation's first president in the ... Just before assuming the presidency, he was held again for four months, ... In 1950, he got a job as a stagehand at the ABC Theater in Prague, an...
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia  The Soviet Union was dissolved on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. ... The week before the union's formal dissolution, 11 republics  all except the .... Its name refers to the human-rights statements of the Helsinki Accords. ...... However, the registration came too late for Rukh to stand its own candidates...
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Breakup of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia  Yugoslavia (19431992) Croatia (1991) Slovenia (1991) Republic of Serbian Krajina .... This constitution broke down powers between the capital and the .... status threatened by each republic breaking away from the federation, in addition to his ..... Both Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence on 25 June 1991.
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Vaclav Havel's Protest Tackles the Dangers of Conformity ...  Jan 16, 2014 ... ... Theater's production of Protest, written by the Czech Republic's first president Vaclav Havel, ... Protest, the final play in Havel's Vanek Trilogy written in the mid 1970s is, like the other short one-acts, semi-autobiographical.
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Vaclav Havel | president of Czech Republic | Britannica.com  Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of ... Havel continued to write plays steadily until the late 1980s; these works include Zten monost ... three one-act plays Audience (1975), Vernis (1975; Private View), and Protest (1978); Largo Desolato (1985); and Ztra to Spustme (1988; Tomorrow).
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Vaclav Havel | president of Czech Republic | Britannica.com  Vclav Havel, (born October 5, 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech ... poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of ... arrested and served four years in prison (197983) for his activities on behalf of ... and he was reelected to the presidency in July 1990, becoming the country's first...
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The Breakup of Yugoslavia, 19901992 - Office of the Historian  The country broke up under Nazi occupation during World War II with the ... in Eastern Europe in 1989, the unification of Germany one year later, and the ... By mid-1989 Kosovo and Vojvodina had been reintegrated into Serbia, and the...
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Revolutions of 1989 - Wikipedia  The Revolutions of 1989 were part of a revolutionary wave in the late 1980s and early 1990s .... Czechoslovakia was dissolved three years after the end of Communist rule, splitting peacefully into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1992. ..... Five days later, on 24 August 1989, Poland's Parliament ended more than 40 years...
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Breakup of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia  Yugoslavia (19431992) Croatia (1991) Slovenia (1991) Republic of Serbian Krajina .... This constitution broke down powers between the capital and the .... status threatened by each republic breaking away from the federation, in addition to...
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India - The transfer of power and the birth of two countries | history ...  Jun 22, 2016 ... The subcontinent was to be divided into three major groups of ... and within each group the princely states were to be integrated into their neighbouring provinces. .... languages would find its administrative reflection, while English and ... Four years later, in 1960, the enlarged state of Bombay was divided...
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J! Archive - Show #5080, aired 2006-10-13  Oct 13, 2006 ... In August this country was divided in two at the 38th parallel ... We raise a toast to this guy who in 1993 dissolved his country's parliament...
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Vaclav Havel, Rebel Czech Playwright Who Led a Country, Dies at ...  Dec 18, 2011 ... Vaclav Havel, who went from being an imprisoned dissident playwright in Communist ... to the elected president of the newly free Czech Republic, died Dec. ... out for human rights and writing plays attacking the communist system. ... Following military service, he worked as a stagehand at Prague's Theatre...
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In new play, Vaclav Havel looks back on power - The New York Times  Jul 25, 2008 ... ... going to the United States - is a semiautobiographical King Lear-like meditation on ... Yet while the West has lionized him, in his native Czech Republic, 19 years ... Once elected president - a role he insists was more duty than ... office, when he resigned to protest the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1992.
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Timeline of the breakup of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia  The Breakup of Yugoslavia was a process in which the Socialist Federal Republic of ... proclaimed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 27 April 1992. ... This union lasted until 5 June 2006 when Montenegro proclaimed independence. .... 27 February, The Yugoslav Presidency declares a state of emergency in Kosovo...
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The Velvet Divorce  January 1, 1993  Prague Blog - Prague Guide  Jan 1, 1993 ... After all, the country had been democratic for 20 years during the First Republic (1918-1938). ... exist, and on January 1, 1993, the two independent states of the Czech ... only 37 percent of Slovaks and 36 percent of Czechs favored a split. ... to separate the Czech and Slovak republics into individual states.
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List of U.S. state partition proposals - Wikipedia  Since the establishment of the United States in 1776, numerous state partition proposals have .... Politicians in the South Florida metropolitan area have made proposals to split ... An early twentieth century proposal cited a desire for portions of northern Idaho and eastern Washington to form a state named .... Montana[edit].