Where dissent does have an impact, it tends also to be dangerous: think Alexander Solzhenitsyn or Vaclav Havel.
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Zeman replaces Vaclav Klaus, who must step down after serving the maximum of two terms.
Last October, they gave in, making Vaclav Klaus the last man standing in Europe.
Vaclav Klaus, the prime minister, has so far resisted calls for greater shareholder protection.
The winner will replace Vaclav Klaus, who must step down after serving the maximum of two terms.
As part of this effort, I made a pilgrimage to Manitoba to spend a day with Vaclav Smil.
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Mr Zeman will replace the eurosceptic Vaclav Klaus, who steps down in March after ten years in office.
The name Charter 88 deliberately echoes that of Charter 77, the Czech dissident movement co-founded by Vaclav Havel.
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The Civic Democrats are imperiously commanded by a former prime minister, Vaclav Klaus.
Philharmonic director Vaclav Riedlbauch estimated the damage at tens of millions of crowns.
Czech politicians, including a former prime minister, Vaclav Klaus, complained that President Havel had damaged relations with a friendly neighbour.
So now Milos Zeman, of the Social Democrats, and Vaclav Klaus, of the Civic Democrats, seem poised to govern together.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus has appointed Petr Necas, leader of the centre-right Civic Democrat party, as the country's new prime minister.
The clearest but unkindest explanation for Mr Klaus's conduct is a desire to be noticed more than his predecessor, Vaclav Havel.
"Vaclav Klaus is one of the most - maybe the most - consistent politicians in his opinions, " Mr Jirsa told the BBC.
My intellectual heroes in my teenage years were not unusual for a young right-winger: George Orwell, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Vaclav Havel, Friedrich Hayek.
Mr Zeman effectively retired from politics in 2003, after failing to beat Mr Klaus in the election to succeed Vaclav Havel as president.
President Vaclav Havel has criticised Mr Zeman's announcement, warning it could make Czechs an unreliable ally in the eyes of the United States.
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He is cooler about Vaclav Klaus, who oversaw privatisation as finance minister, was prime minister from 1992 to 1997 and is now president.
Vaclav Havel, the Czechs' non-executive president, is likely to appoint Mr Zeman prime minister soon after the new parliament convenes on July 14th.
Yet with the single exception of the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, no leader has dared to state that the Lisbon treaty is now dead.
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Dubcek was elected chairman of the Federal Assembly (the national parliament) on 28 December, and Vaclav Havel became interim president on 29 December 1989.
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The veteran politician - who served as finance minister and prime minister before succeeding arch-rival Vaclav Havel as president in 2003 - arouses strong passions.
Nobody knows how Vaclav Klaus, the Eurosceptic Czech president, might react.
The Czech president, the fiercely Eurosceptic Vaclav Klaus, is less predictable.
President Vaclav Havel, who led the dissident movement in communist times, is said to be unhappy with the choice of Mr Kavan as foreign minister.
His limited acquaintance with business was through his father's and uncle's large holdings of property in Prague, which were expropriated when young Vaclav was 12.
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