U-M remembers Václav Havel

To commemorate his passing, the U-M Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES) created a page on its website focusing on the honorary degree that President Havel received from the University of Michigan on September 5, 2000. Please see:

U-M community mourns the passing of Václav Havel, honorary U-M Doctor of Laws and former President of the Czech Republic

Václav Havel (1936-2011)

“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.” -Václav Havel

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