After spending much of my youth abroad I came back to Prague in my late teens to study at Charles University and I knew right away that this was the city I wanted to call home. Joining Radio Prague in 1986 was a lucky break. I was there to see the crowds welcoming Gorbi at Ruzyne Airport, I found myself reporting on the fall of the Iron Curtain and getting my first taste of adrenalin. Ever since, it has been an exciting road to tread. And when the generally fascinating world of politics becomes too much I balance it out with whacky human interest stories from the Czech Republic hoping to raise a smile somewhere on the other side of the globe.
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Daily news summary
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Extremism expert: we no longer have a clear line between what is extremist and what is normal
An attack on a Prague community centre that helps refugees, the recent stabbing of a Syrian national and violence at anti-migrant rallies suggest that growing anti-Islamic…
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Czech foreign minister offers Macedonia help in tackling migrant crisis
Czech Foreign Minister Lubomír Zaorálek held talks with top officials in Macedonia on Wednesday offering the country material and personnel assistance in dealing with the…
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Elderly women living alone are at high risk of poverty
Elderly Czech women living alone are at an increased risk of poverty, according to a survey released by the Czech Statistics Office. Fifteen percent of Czechs aged over 65…
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Czech exports reach all-time high
Czech exports reached a record 3.9 trillion crowns in 2015, an increase of 7.2 percent year on year. Although exports to Russia dropped by over 30 percent higher exports…
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US shocked by release of terrorist suspects, as Czech government brings home missing Czechs
Five Czechs who had been missing and presumed kidnapped in Lebanon for five months arrived home on Thursday after the Czech government freed two Lebanese nationals wanted…
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New dean of NATO Defense College: Our perception of what presents a threat sometimes differs
Brigadier General František Mičánek, head of the Centre for Security and Military Strategic Studies at the University of Defense in Brno, was recently elected Dean of NATO…
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Former communist-era top official not to be charged with Iron Curtain deaths
Former communist-era prime minister Lubomír Štrougal will not face criminal proceedings over the deaths of 91 people who died on the Iron Curtain trying to escape…
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Vlčnov celebrates the reign of new boy-king
The wine flowed freely and the music played until the small hours at the annual costume ball in the town of Vlčnov last Saturday. The ball annually launches the reign of…
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OKD to lay-off half of its employees in next two years
Czech hard coal miner New World Resources’ OKD unit wants to lay off half of its employees within the next two years. Although the move is not unexpected and the Czech…
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