A new book maps the thinly explored Russian side of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. Compiled and edited by Czech Television’s former Moscow anchor, Josef Pazderka, ‘Invasion 1968. The Russian View,’ looks at the moods and emotions — a ‘psychogram,’ as Pazderka calls it — of Russian soldiers, dissidents and journalists involved in and affected by the Warsaw Pact invasion.

Remembered by many Czechs as the Cold War warrior who beat the Soviet Union and helped restore their country’s freedom, the late US President Ronald Reagan, a conservative Republican, will be honored in Prague on Friday when the street where the US ambassadorial residence stands is named after him. Current US ambassador to Prague Norman Eisen, a former close aide to Democratic US President President Barack Obama, will have to change his visiting card and headed notepaper.

Outspoken neo-conservative and former US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz has hit out at the Czech Republic and other Central European countries that sent Soviet troops home at the end of the Cold War for not doing more to help Libyan rebels fighting Colonel Gaddafi. Speaking in the Czech capital, Wolfowitz said Prague had not even recognized the rebels.