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Václav Havel (5th October 1936 - 18th December 2011)

Official Information

• Embassy of the Czech Republic in London - Book of Condolence
• In Memoriam Vaclav Havel by The Prague Castle - Online condolence service
• Information about Lying in State and Funeral Service for President Václav Havel at Prague Castle
• Statement by the President of the Czech Republic reflecting the death of former Czech President Václav Havel
• Statement of David Cameron on the death of Václav Havel
• Statement of President Obama on the death of Václav Havel

Press and Media Coverage in Czech

• ČeskéNoviny.cz, Zpravodajský server ČTK
• Česká televize
• Český rozhlas
• iDNES.cz
• lidovky.cz
• Týden.cz

Press and Media Coverage in English

• ČeskéNoviny.cz, Zpravodajský server ČTK
• Radio Praha
• The Guardian
• The Telegraph
• The Independent
• Reuters
• The Washington Post
• Spiegel Online
• Aljazeera

Opinions, Comments

• What Havel Gave Us Was His Story, (Martin Ehl - Transitions Online)
• Tomáš Sedláček: Only now we will slowly realise the gift we had in Havel (Radio Prague)
• The Day Václav Havel died (Respekt)
• In memory of Václav Havel, let's not lie to ourselves (Jan Schneider - Czech Position)
• Václav Havel, the principled president (Madeleine Albright - The Washington Post)
• Václav Havel's legacy to humanity (Carl Gershman - The Washington Post)
• Václav Havel: another side to the story (Neil Clark - The Guardian)
• Václav Havel: the other Europe (Editorial - The Guardian)
• Václav Havel: director of a play that changed history (Timothy Garton Ash - The Guardian)
• The Guardian should be ashamed of itself for allowing a small-minded man to attack a great hero (Cristina Odone - The Guardian)
• The courage of Václav Havel, (The Telegraph)
• Havel was a giant for Eastern Europe who must be remembered (Steve Crawshaw - The Independent)
• Václav Havel's politics 'overshadowed' playwriting (BBC)
• John Simpson: "Václav Havel an unlikely politician" (BBC)
• Why Václav Havel mattered (Richard Allen Greene - CNN)
• The power of living in truth (Jeffrey D. Sachs - Reuters)
• Havel's Inspiration for the Arabs (The New York Times)

From the Archives

• Havel Collection (1985), UCL SSEES Library
• 20 Years After the Collapse of the Iron Curtain: have our dreams come true? (Vaclav Havel at LSE, November 2, 2009)
• Margaret Thatcher. "Speech at dinner for Czech President (Václav Havel)," speech, No. 10 Downing St., London, England, March 21, 1990, (Margaret Thatcher Foundation, Archive)

Other

• Vaclav Havel Official Site
• Prague Castle
• Václav Havel Library
• CT24 News Special on the death of Václav Havel (in Czech)
• Václav Havel (Tomki Nemec Gallery)

Czech Elections 2010:

• Election Guide
• Observing Czech elections (Prague Daily Monitor, 23rd April)
• 'Left-wing Social Democrats winning Czech election' (Guardian)
• 'Czech election results point to budget cuts and reforms' (Financial Times Blog)
• 'Czech Republic voters move to right in general election' (BBC News)
• 'Tschechien-Wahl: Schwarzenbergs Comeback' (Die Presse, in German)
• 'Schwierige Verhandlungspositionen in Tschechien' (NZZ Online, in German)
• Czech Central Electoral Commission
• Election Reports - Czech Republic (from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights)
• Political Parties and Organizations - Czech Republic

Government and official information:

• CIA World Factbook - Czech Republic
• Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic
• Czech Constitution
• CENIA: Czech Environmental Information Agency
• Government of the Czech Republic
• Internet Law Library - Czech Republic
• Official Website of the Czech Republic
• Parliament of the Czech Republic - Chamber of Deputies
• Prague Castle
• Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
• Supreme Court of the Czech Republic

Economics and statistics:

• Czech National Bank
• Czech Republic and the IMF
• Czech Statistical Office
• Economist Country Briefings: Czech Republic
• Prague Stock Exchange

News and media (Czech language):

• BBC World Service - Czech
• Britské Listy
• České Noviny
• iDNES
• Lidovky
• Právo
• Týden

News and media (English language):

• Czech Happenings
• Prague Daily Monitor
• The Prague Post
• The Prague Tribune
• Radio Prague Online
• Transitions Online

Academic sites:

• Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Brno University of Technology
• Charles University, Prague
• Masaryk University, Brno
• University of West Bohemia in Pilsen

Libraries and archives:

• British Library - Czech Collections
• Czech National Archive
• The Czech and Slovak Collections at the Library of Congress
• Kramerius Information Portal (Digital library project - National Library of the Czech Republic)
• National Film Archive in Prague
• National Library of the Czech Republic
• Prague City Archives

Language and literature:

• Bohemica: All about Czech Language and Culture
• Karel Čapek online
• The Czech Language

Culture and society:

• Jewish Museum in Prague
• Kinoeye: Web Resources on Czech Cinema
• National Gallery in Prague
• National Museum of Prague

Regions and cities:

• Brno City Guide
• Plzen Home Page
• Prague Home Page

Search engines:

• Atlas
• Centrum
• Seznam

Other resources:

• British Czech and Slovak Association
• Czech Centre London

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This page last modified Wednesday 21 December 2011.