Czechs abroad
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Minister queries UK court’s acceptance of self-defence plea in case involving death of Czech
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Lubomír Zaorálek, has called on UK prosecutors to reconsider a court ruling that cleared a British man of killing a Czech national…
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Czechs today need cosmopolitan model, says author of novel exploring J. A. Baťa’s exile in Brazil
A freshly published Czech novel reimagines episodes from the life of Jan Antonín Baťa, a Moravian business tycoon who built four cities in Brazil after being forced to…
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Jan Antonín Baťa always said he put his people first, says granddaughter Dolores Bata Arambasic
The Baťa family – who built a shoemaking empire in Zlín, Moravia – were perhaps the most important industrialists in interwar Czechoslovakia. One of the best-known members…
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Bronislava Volková: A ravine halts my speech
Bronislava Volková is a woman of many talents. She has had numerous collections of her poetry published and translated into no less than eleven languages, at the same time…
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Czech govt. official: UK must “very quickly” say how it will deal with EU residents
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has outlined uncompromising plans for her country’s exit from the EU, including restricting workers from member states and quitting the…
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Last man on the moon Eugene Cernan remembered
US astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last person to set foot on the Moon, died on Monday at the age of 82. Cernan was the commander of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, who…
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David Koubek: Czech Radio’s former man in Brazil on the World Cup, the Olympics and the country’s…
While most of us can only dream about attending a World Cup or Olympic Games, David Koubek got to experience both as Czech Radio’s correspondent in Brazil. In his two and…
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Czech Brisbane community tunes in to local roots
The Czech expatriate community in the Australian city of Brisbane only counts several hundred people, but they have always been very active in maintaining the Czech…
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Czechoslovak secret police files reveal interest in Trump couple
The Czechoslovak communist-era secret police took an active interest in the Czech born first wife of US president-elect Donald Trump back in the late 1970s and 80s…
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Brussels officials stage Dvořák’s Rusalka
The daily bread of Brussels officials is often associated with bureaucracy and senseless regulations. But a group of Czechs working in European institutions in Brussels…
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World-renowned chemist Josef Michl on figuring out mysteries, 1968 – and a remarkable WWII story
Last week the Boulder-based Josef Michl was in his native Prague to receive the prestigious Neuron award for lifelong contribution to world science in the field of…
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Jana Kopelentová-Rehak: The old men said they used to work together – at a labour camp uranium mine
Czech Political Prisoners: Recovering Face is the title of a book of photographs and texts by Jana Kopelentová-Rehak, a Czech anthropologist based in the US city of…
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