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Petition Wants Havel as a National Monument. He Was a Cultural Object, a Natural Feature, They Say

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People across the country commemorated President Václav Havel's unfulfilled ninetieth birthday on Monday. On this occasion, at the symbolic time of 17.11, dozens of people gathered for a rally on Moravské náměstí in the center of Brno, where they launched a petition with an unconventional request. The petition committee called We Will Remain Faithful to Havel calls on the government to declare the former president a cultural or natural national …
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We bring you another in a series of micro-interviews taken on the occasion of the commemoration of Václav Havel's unlived ninetieth birthday. This spring, Deník N, in cooperation with the library that recently bore his name (i.e. before this library in its original form ended), addressed a number of interesting personalities with several questions, which were then published in a printed supplement called Havel 90. Now we are gradually bringing t…

On Monday, Václav Havel would have turned ninety. It has inspired many memorial texts and commentaries, I might add. Not out of a sense of duty, but I think that one aspect of Havel's legacy has not been emphasized enough in them (or at least in the ones I have managed to read).

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Prague - A selection of photographs of Václav Havel taken by photojournalists of the Czech Press Agency (ČTK) can be seen at the Fragment Gallery in Prague from today until February 7 next year. The photographs capture the former Czech and last Czechoslovak president over a period of several decades. The national news agency prepared the exhibition in cooperation with Czech Photo on the occasion of Havel's 90th birthday and the 15th anniversary …

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People across the country commemorated President Václav Havel's unfulfilled ninetieth birthday on Monday. On this occasion, at the symbolic time of 17.11, dozens of people gathered for a rally on Moravské náměstí in the center of Brno, where they launched a petition with an unconventional request. The petition committee called We Will Remain Faithful to Havel calls on the government to declare the former president a cultural or natural national …

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COMMENTARY. Václav Havel would be ninety years old! We all feel that we would like it to be true, for it to happen, but sometimes we don't know why. More precisely: why would Havel today, as a public intellectual intervening in public affairs – as he himself called homo politicus – benefit Czech society? How exactly? On attitudes towards totalitarian tendencies

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HlídacíPes.org broke the news on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
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