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Vaccine registration for publically uninsured foreigners and Czechs opens this Friday

Vaccine registration for publically uninsured foreigners and Czechs opens this Friday

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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.

03:40

Lower house approves bill to compensate victims of forced sterilization

A bill on providing compensation for people who were forcibly or otherwise illegally sterilised in the past was approved by the lower house of Parliament on June 4th.
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PM Babiš survives third no-confidence vote, thanks to Communist walk-out

Andrej Babiš’s minority government has survived yet another no-confidence motion. But opinion polls suggest a opposition coaltion will win the October election.
03:24

Senate committee declares President Miloš Zeman unfit for office

The Security and Defense Committee of the Czech Senate has declared President Miloš Zeman unfit for office and has proposed that he be stripped of the post.

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03:44

“She gives a lot of hope”: Belarus’s Tsikhanouskaya visits Prague

The Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is currently in the Czech Republic, meeting both top Czech officials and Belarusian exiles.

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Anniversary of the Week

150 years since formation of “Vltavan” Association in Prague

Prague’s Vltava river has been used to transport wood on rafts for centuries. On June 11, 1871, local raft traders formed their own association.

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Travel

03:25

Czechia to open for EU travellers from June 21

Holders of a vaccine, test or coronavirus recovery certificate be able to travel to the Czech Republic without the need to quarantine or get themselves tested from June 21.

Foreigners and the Czech Republic

09:45

Brno Expat City Days help bring together local foreign community

The upcoming Brno Expat City Days bring together the English-speaking foreign profesionals and their family members living in the Moravian capital.

Science and technology

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Czech Science Foundation signs unique cooperation agreement with US counterpart

An agreement reached between the US and Czech science foundations will allow scientists from the two countries to coordinate research and receive funding together.

Picture of the week

Guty wooden church replica opens to public after original was burned down by arsonists

The replica of a rare sixteenth century wooden church in the Silesian village of Guty has been completed and is now open to the public.

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Cham|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Mauthausen|Photo: Pieter Bosman
St.Wolfganag |Photo: Pieter Bosman
Cimeny|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Altenberg|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Crikvenica|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Mittenwald Obermarkt|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Oberammergau|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Hopferstadt|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Schweigerrs|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Gleink|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Hirsching|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Bad Ischl |Photo: Pieter Bosman
Passau|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Lauda
Ardager Stift
Gescher Pankratius
Linz|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Geisa|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Altenberg|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Poznan
Rossenau
Gmunden
Aub
Schwetzingen
Wertbach
Linz Postlingberg
Grosspertholz
Neunburg
Sonntagberg
Würzburg|Photo: Klára Stejskalová, Radio Prague International
Obříství|Photo: Klára Stejskalová, Radio Prague International
Lenešice|Photo: Klára Stejskalová, Radio Prague International
Nižbor|Photo: Klára Stejskalová, Radio Prague International
Ostrov|Photo: Klára Stejskalová, Radio Prague International
Břvany|Photo: Klára Stejskalová, Radio Prague International
São João Nepomuceno, Brazil|Photo: David Koubek, Radio Prague International
Prague Smíchov|Photo: Lenka Žižková, Radio Prague International
Prague Pohořelec|Photo: Markéta Kachlíková, Radio Prague International
Prague, Nerudova Street|Photo: Markéta Kachlíková, Radio Prague International
Český Brod|Photo: Klára Stejskalová, Radio Prague International
Ostrava|Photo: Libor Kukal, Radio Prague International
Kololeč|Photo: Markéta Kachlíková, Radio Prague International
Choteč|Photo: Markéta Kachlíková, Radio Prague International
Prague, Břevnov|Photo: Markéta Kachlíková, Radio Prague International
Budyně nad Ohří|Photo: Markéta Kachlíková, Radio Prague International
Strmilov|Photo: Markéta Kachlíková, Radio Prague International
Rech|Photo: Pieter Bosman
Třebenice|Photo: Markéta Kachlíková, Radio Prague International
Kardašova Řečice|Photo: Markéta Kachlíková, Radio Prague International
San Anthonis |Photo: Pieter Bosman
Sedlec-Prčice|Photo: Daniela Podařilová, Radio Prague International

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Jakub Gemrot | Photo: MgA. Ondřej Javora

EP12: Games creator Jakub Gemrot

Jakub Gemrot heads Charles Games, the studio that produced Attentat 1942, a “WWII game through the eyes of survivors” that won many admirers around the world.

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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