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What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the words “Czech Republic”?

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New study highlights declining elk numbers in Czechia

New study highlights declining elk numbers in Czechia

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Jiří Trnka: Zahrada, photo: Barbora Němcová

Masters of Czech animated film

The Czech Republic has a long history of animation, dating back to cinema’s silent era.

Domestic affairs

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Tomáš Petříček recalled as foreign minister after failed party leadership bid

Tomáš Petříček, the man who has been in charge of Czech diplomacy for over two years, will no longer be minister of foreign affairs.
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Czech state of emergency finally ends – so what now?

A state of emergency imposed to combat alarming Covid numbers in the Czech Republic has ended after more than six months. So what happens now?
Media: Negative coronavirus test will open many doors in upgraded counter-epidemic system

Details are emerging of the upgraded counter-epidemic system that is to serve as a guideline for restrictions once the state of emergency ends on April 11.

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Society

Anniversary of the Week

140 years since first phone call was made in Czech lands

The first telephone call in Bohemia was made on April 10, 1881 between the Hartmann coal mine in Ledvice and a nearby train station in Duchcov.

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History

Sport

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Czech sports union head: We fear some children may never return to an active lifestyle

Under pressure from sports clubs the government has agreed to allow training of up to 12 persons in groups of two, on condition they keep a safe distance from each other.

Czechs abroad

Nature

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The (Green) Battle of Austerlitz – Czech builder embraces plant, animal ‘enemies’

The family-owned construction firm LIKO-S in Moravia has embraced stricter environmental rules by carving out a niche selling “green” façades and roofs.

Science and technology

Picture of the week

Monumental golden wings back on top of Prague’s main train station

The monumental golden wings, gracing the Art Nouveau building of Prague’s main train station, are back in their place after a nearly year-long renovation.

Photogallery

Bohemian Paradise was created on March 1955 as the first nature reserve in Czechia

Photo: Jan Chalupa
Photo: Jan Chalupa
Photo: Jan Chalupa
Photo: Jan Chalupa
Photo: Jan Chalupa
Photo: Jan Chalupa
Photo: Jan Chalupa
Photo: Jaroslav Hoření, ČRo
Photo: Jaroslav Hoření, ČRo
Photo: Jan Chalupa
Photo: Jan Chalupa
Photo: Jan Chalupa
Photo: Radan Hurdálek, ČRo
Photo: Štěpánka Budková
Photo: Jan Chalupa
Photo: Jaroslav Hoření, ČRo
Photo: Jan Chalupa
Photo: Jan Chalupa
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Photo: Jaroslav Hoření, ČRo
Photo: Magdalena Kašubová
Photo: Magdalena Kašubová
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Photo: Jan Chalupa

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Czech Made: The Jawa motorcycle

Lenka Šimečková, photo: archive of Lenka Šimečková

Czech Next Wave - EP10: Illustrator Lenka Šimečková

Illustrator and comics artist Lenka Šimečková has established herself as one of the most exciting names in her field, with work that appears in comics, books and games.

Photo: archive of Wels family

No Night So Dark: Part Seven

Ida, Rudolf and Martin Wels are deported to the Terezín ghetto. Nearly eighty years later, Colin Wels reads through their last correspondence.

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