Thousands of people protested Monday on the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution against Czech president Milos Zeman’s Russia-friendly foreign policy and a vulgar diatribe that sparked uproar.The demonstration marked the brutal suppression by communist police of a student march in Prague on November 17, 1989 that sparked the Velvet Revolution, which toppled communism in then Czechoslovakia.Zeman, a pro-Russian ex-communist, has broken ranks with both the EU and NATO over the crisis in Ukraine.”I’ve come to show Zeman the red card because I’m against almost everything he does — his foreign policy, for instance,” said Jarmila Rydlova, one of more …read more
Source: Egypt Independent
