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‘Blood libel’: Czech lawyer specialising in judicial rehabilitation takes on Hilsner Affair of 1899
In 1899, as the Dreyfus Affair was reaching its climax in France, another case emblematic of anti-Semitism and injustice enveloped the Czech lands: the Hilsner Affair.
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“Operation Ř” – How the Communists targeted Czechoslovakia’s nunneries
70 years ago, having already interned thousands of monks in “concentration cloisters”, the Communists turned their anti-religious fervour to Czechoslovakia’s nunneries.
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Plzeň zoo joins international efforts to save maneless zebra
The zoo in Pilsen has recently launched a breeding programme of the critically endangered maneless zebra.
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UN warns decline in insect species could spell disaster
Experts say over 40 percent of insect species around the world are threatened with extinction and warn that this could have a devastating impact on humankind.
