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Krejčíková first woman to win French Open singles and doubles since 2000

Krejčíková first woman to win French Open singles and doubles since 2000

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Culture

Libuše - Bedřich Smetana’s opera about Bohemia’s mythical female ruler
Anniversary of the Week

Centenary of Czech Mycological Society
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Sport

Zdena / Zdeněk: the interwar Czech champion who changed genders

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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.

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Foreign policy

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“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.

Society

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

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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

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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.

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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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