• Commentary: Putin makes move for dominant role

    The details of who did what to precipitate Russia&aposs war against Georgia are not very important. Do you recall the precise details of the Sudeten Crisis that led to Nazi Germany&aposs invas...
    2008-08-21 15:27:45

  • Moscow called West's bluff

    Forty years ago this week, the night sky above Prague began to rumble with the sound of transport aircraft. On distant frontiers, tanks lurched forward. The invasion of Czechoslovakia had begun. Toda...
    2008-08-21 11:28:15

  • Today In History - August 21

    Today is Thursday, Aug. 21, the 234th day of 2008. There are 132 days left in the year. In the early hours of Aug. 21, 1968, the Soviet Union and other WarsawPact nations began invading Czechoslovakia...
    2008-08-21 10:15:50

  • World gives Russia an unfair rap

    U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is an intelligent woman. So how can she possibly want to tell the world that Russia's response to the Georgian attack on South Ossetia resembled the Soviet...
    2008-08-21 01:23:38

  • Moscow called West's bluff

    Forty years ago this week, the night sky above Prague began to rumble with the sound of transport aircraft. On distant frontiers, tanks lurched forward. The invasion of Czechoslovakia had begun. Toda...
    2008-08-21 01:17:38

  • Preview: Pavel Haas Quartet, The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh Festival

    Pavel Haas was a gifted young composer and student of Leo&訙; Jan&覙;cek whose string quartets are deemed as good as any that have been written. However, Haas was not fated to have...
    2008-08-19 18:24:58

  • 1968: Warsaw Pact tanks invade Prague

    On the night of August 20 1968 Soviet tanks and troops invaded Czechoslovakia in an effort to stop the Prague Spring...
    2008-08-17 06:14:41

  • Harsh words heat up Georgia crisis

    Condoleezza Rice evokes the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Russia is angry about the U.S. deal with Poland on a missile defense system. &ltbr/>&ltbr/> ...
    2008-08-16 12:38:28

  • Russia seems to be using a familiar playbook

    In 1939, Germany rolled into Czechoslovakia to protect the Sudeten Germans, whom Hitler claimed were persecuted by the Czechs. The world’s reaction Futile negotiations placating Germany as t...
    2008-08-15 18:21:31

  • 'This isn't '68 Czechoslovakia invasion'

    Rice says Russia can't threaten a neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it....
    2008-08-13 20:24:37
COUNTRIES    US STATES    US CITIES    CLASSIFIEDS    EVENTS    YELLOW PAGES    MAJOR CITIES    CATEGORY SITES     AVOO SEARCH     WORLD NEWS    POLLS     YSpan