History
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Communist-era public art to receive better protection
Some of the thousands of statues, fountains, murals and other artefacts erected in the Czech Republic in the 1970s and 80s are set to receive better care and protection…
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Key StB agent who masterminded 'fake' border posts dies aged 92
The death has been announced of the man suspected of being behind one of the most perfidious plots hatched by Czechoslovakia’s Communist secret police, the StB. Shortly…
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Czech totalitarian studies institute quits European association
The long and bitter dispute between the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and the European association of similar agencies came to a head on Wednesday…
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Prague museum highlights cooking through the ages with gastro tours, workshops
One of Prague’s most recent new museums is dedicated to the art of cooking through the ages, with a particular look at the Czech contribution to cuisine. The museum…
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Prague lost something after ’89, says creator of historical photoblog Piotrek Gawlinski
Piotrek Gawlinski unearths and scans rare and frequently stunning pictures of the Czech capital for his excellent historical photoblog Lost and Found in Prague. A Polish…
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First book in Hebrew printed in Prague half a millennium ago
Today, in Prague’s bookstores one can find titles in a number of world languages – English, German, Russian, French, and of course Czech. It is much harder these days…
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Czechs discover passion for family history, says genealogy researcher Blanka Lednická
Ever since Czech TV began broadcasting its own version of BBC’s show Who Do You Think You Are, many people have developed an interest in finding more about their own…
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Notorious Czechoslovak Communist party hardliner Vasil Bil’ak dies at 96
Former Czechoslovak Communist party ideology chief Vasil Bil’ak, the last surviving hardliner who sent a letter of invitation to Soviet leaders, officially justifying the…
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Agency administering secret police files threatens to quit international network
The Czech agency that administers the files of the communist-era secret police has clashed with a European network of similar organisations. The latter has suspended the…
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Milan Schulz, exiled author, RFE broadcaster dies in Munich
Czech-born author, journalist and Radio Free Europe broadcaster Milan Schulz died in Munich on Monday at the age of 83. He emigrated in 1969 but the link to his homeland…
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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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'Palach Week' - a prelude to the 1989 fall of communism
Most people date the beginning of the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia to November 17th, 1989, when a peaceful student demonstration was brutally broken up by riot…
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