News
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Government approves draft state budget for 2022
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Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize for 2021 goes to Belorussian opposition activist Maria Kalesnikava
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President signs into force bill sidelining China and Russia from Dukovany tender
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Euro: Kellner’s widow now richest Czech
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Police investigating murder of Czech woman in Colombia
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Domestic affairs
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Pre-election debate on issues, personalities and the chances of forming a stable government
Czechs will go to the polls on Octber 8 -9 to elect a new parliament and pave the way for a new government.
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Students give ruling ANO party thumbs down in mock vote, support opposition groupings
More than 40,000 Czech students cast their ballots in mock elections held at secondary schools across the country this week.
Business
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Start of heating season: Czechs bracing for growing energy prices
The arrival of cooler weather has launched the heating season in most parts of the Czech Republic.
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Survey: Over two-thirds of Czechs shop online every month
More than two-thirds of Czech consumers shop online every month, a quarter do so every two weeks, and 14 percent shop online every week, according to the Visa survey.
Foreign policy
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Kulhánek supports integrity of Ukraine and Georgia in UN address
At the UN General Assembly Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhánek backed the territorial integrity of Ukraine and Georgia and demanded the release of people detained in Belarus.
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British journalist Edward Lucas on Russian spies in Czechia, disinfo, and political polarisation
Edward Lucas has been covering Central Europe since 1986. Czech Radio interviewed him about Russian efforts to polarise regional populations in part via disinformation.
Society
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Culture
History
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“Operation Kulak”: Memorial to Czech victims of collectivisation erected below Mount Říp
Thousands of Czech farmers known as “kulaks” were forcibly evicted from their land and homesteads under communism. The biggest wave came 70 years ago, in autumn 1951.
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15 years ago, Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni became an honorary Prague citizen
King Sihamoni studied in Prague from 1962 to 1975, and calls Czechoslovakia his ‘second home’. He is the only living monarch who speaks Czech.
