Czechs Give President The Red Card

Demonstrators show symbolic red cards to Czech President Milos Zeman during a protest rally in Prague on November 17.

The protesters accuse Zeman of cozying up to Russia. Their protest comes as Zeman hosts four Central European presidents at events marking the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.

A view in a traffic mirror shows the size of the crowd, who gathered on Narodni trida (National Street), the central boulevard that was the site of the anticommunist protest that sparked the 1989 revolution.

A small child also held aloft a homemade red card, as some protesters said it was time for Zeman to step down. Zeman was elected in 2013 to a four-year term.

Shop assistants joined the protest from windows overlooking the street.

As the Zeman protests took place, others lit candles at the Velvet Revolution memorial. No one was killed in the revolution -- the candles are to commemorate the people killed and imprisoned during the Communist Party's 41-year rule.