Foreign Policy
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Kevin Klose, Part 1: Havel told me RFE in Prague worth three NATO divisions
Kevin Klose is serving a second term as president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, an American-funded international broadcaster based in Prague since the mid-1990s. Mr…
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Don’t mix sport and politics says Zeman ahead of Sochi, while Čáslavská boycotts him
Evidently concerned over Russia’s human rights record, some European leaders have rejected invitations to attend the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi in three weeks…
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Czech Foreign Ministry asked to address growing public safety concerns in wake of Palestinian…
Following last week’s deadly explosion at the new Palestinian embassy building in Prague and the discovery of illegally held weapons on the premises there has been growing…
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Police ruling out terrorism in Palestinian ambassador’s violent death in Prague
The death of the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic remains at the centre of media attention. While police investigating the explosion that killed Ambassador…
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Ex-foreign minister Schwarzenberg sees echoes of Velvet Revolution in Ukraine
Former Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg visited Ukraine over the weekend, openly comparing demonstrations in Kiev’s Independence Square with the 1989…
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Cats at meetings and ‘60s Škoda with diplomatic plates all part of UK ambassador Jan Thompson’s…
The UK’s ambassador to the Czech Republic since the summer, Jan Thompson adopts a relatively informal approach that includes driving what must be the country’s only 1969…
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Israel’s Ehud Barak: West should give Russia chance to lead
Prague this week hosted the annual USA and European Union Days conference where several prominent international and Czech figures discussed transatlantic cooperation and…
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Russian activist and poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya remembered
For many Czechs, Russia’s Natalya Gorbanevskaya was nothing less than a hero, one of eight people in 1968 who protested on Red Square in Moscow against the Soviet-led…
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Cosmonaut and Communist MEP Remek returning to Moscow as Czech ambassador
Vladimír Remek is the only Czech to have flown in space, as a crew member on the Soviet Soyuz 28 mission in 1978. Thirty-five years later, Mr. Remek, currently an MEP for…
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Canada confirms lifting of visas for Czechs 'imminent'
The Canadian Embassy has confirmed media reports that the government in Ottawa is on the verge of lifting visas for Czechs. Visas for Czechs wishing to visit Canada were…
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Likely next finance minister warns criticising Russia and China could cost jobs
The person most likely to become the Czech Republic’s next finance minister has set off a debate about the country’s foreign policy priorities. Speaking at an economic…
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NGOs campaign for Russian woman held in Czech jail pending extradition
International and Czech NGOs are campaigning in support of Tatiana Paraskevich, a Russian citizen held in Czech custody pending extradition over large-scale fraud she…
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