Czechs abroad
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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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Eva Jiřičná, part 2: Wenceslas Sq. “biggest loss” in post-1989 development of Prague
Stripped of her citizenship by Czechoslovakia’s Communist authorities after 1968, architect Eva Jiřičná, then in her late 20s, remained in London. In the UK her sleek…
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Eva Jiřičná, part 1: From a Protectorate childhood to Swinging London
Eva Jiřičná is perhaps the best-known living Czech architect. Her London-based firm Eva Jiricna Architects is famous for its sleek boutiques and dramatic staircases, while…
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František Janouch, part 2: Why the Velvet Revolution was “too velvet”
When Czechoslovak dissidents produced samizdat literature in the late communist period they did so in large part thanks to the material and financial support of the…
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Prime minister appeals to UK’s Theresa May to take action in face of attacks on foreigners
Recent attacks against foreign nationals, including the murder of a Czech businessman in London, have led Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka to appeal to his British…
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František Janouch, part 1: My work with Charter Foundation like wartime solidarity when dad was in…
A nuclear scientist, František Janouch is perhaps best-known for the Charter 77 Foundation, which he set up in exile in Sweden to provide dissidents in his native…
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Markéta Goetz-Stankiewicz: of unknown origin in a strange wood without leaves
This year’s George Theiner Prize, which honours people who have helped to promote Czech literature abroad, went to Markéta Goetz-Stankiewicz. At the University of British…
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Leading Czech endocrinologist follows his dream in the United States
Doctor Karel Pacák is an internationally recognized endocrinologist and the current head of the Medical Neuroendocrinology section at the National Institute of Child…
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Businessman Milan Kroupa on building a new life in Canada
One of the recipients of this year’s Gratias Agit Awards, handed out by the Foreign Ministry to those promoting a good name of the Czech Republic abroad, was Milan Kroupa…
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