Tributes for playwright president Vaclav Havel, 1936 – 2011

First Post Mon 19 Dec, AT 09:00

The dissident writer who led the Czech Republic out of communism has died after years of ill-health

Picture past, November 24: Velvet Revolution

Picture past, November 23: Velvet Revolution

The Prague Spring, 40 years on

On August 20 1968, Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to bring an end to President Dubcek's liberalising reforms