Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:05:05 +0200https://english.radio.cz/vaclav-havel-celebrates-70th-birthday-hundreds-friends-8615114© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalThe country's first post-communist president Vaclav Havel celebrates his 70th birthday on Thursday, so this week he invited a few friends round to eat, drink and be merry. Just a few friends - around 1,000 - who queued up outside the medieval St Anne's Church in the Old Town - a deconsecrated building which is now home to Mr Havel's Prague Crossroads cultural centre. They were there to pay homage to the man who did so much to bring about the fall of communism, and so much in the first 13 years after it. Among the well-wishers was Monika Pajerova, a student leader in 1989 who helped organise the mass demonstrations against the regime:encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/havel_gratulanti.jpg?timestamp=1591428578 https://english.radio.cz/vaclav-havel-celebrates-70th-birthday-hundreds-friends-8615114 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9