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Brno cathedral marks conclusion of research phase for beatification of martyred priests
A ceremony was held on Saturday at the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in the city Brno affirming the beatification of two Czech priests who were killed by the communist…
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Václav Havel remembered for ideals but also humour on fourth anniversary of his death
Czechs on Friday are marking the fourth anniversary of the death of the country’s first post-communist president, Václav Havel. One thing that many people are doing in…
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Radio announcer Vladimír Fišer “the voice of 1968” dies at 81
Vladimír Fišer, the legendary radio announcer who in 1968 announced the news of the Russian-led invasion of Czechoslovakia has died at the age of 81. A popular radio…
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Unique Neolithic sculpture found at Czech site
Archaeologists in the east Moravian town of Přerov have discovered a unique statuette which they believe dates back to the early Neolithic period. The richly ornamented…
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Prisoners’ letters: a fragile lifeline for dissidents under Normalisation
Prisons and prisoners’ letters under the Communist era ‘Normalisation’ of the 1970s and 1980s is the subject of this edition of Czech History. For the political prisoners…
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Tomáš Bísek, Part 1: Everything became black and white with signing of Charter 77
Protestant cleric Tomáš Bísek was forced to leave Czechoslovakia in the 1980s for his dissident activities and spent over a decade ministering in Scotland. His family had…
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Twenty-six years after Velvet Revolution, Czech Communists say history’s still in their favour
Since the fall of communism, the Czech Communist party has well established itself on the Czech political scene. It has a stable support base, and since 1990 has not been…
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Czechs mark 26 years of freedom and democracy
People around the country marked the 26th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution amid heightened security on Tuesday. Overshadowed by the terrorist attacks in Paris and the…
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The spy who spoke on camera: RINO explores fascinating tale of CIA mole Karel Koecher
One of the hottest tickets at this year’s Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival was main competition film RINO, a fascinating portrait of the only Communist mole…
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Karel Weirich: the courageous journalist who saved hundreds of Jews during WWII
Karel Weirich is perhaps an unfamiliar name to most Czechs and to most of the world. Yet this modest man contributed in large part to keeping the world informed about the…
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Unique Lichtenstein mausoleum reopens near Brno
After three years of extensive renovation, the burial site of the House of Liechtenstein in the south Moravian town of Vranov was re-opened and re-consecrated. The unique…
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The many faces of Sherlock Holmes in the Czech lands
An exhibition in Opava, called In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes has focussed on how, in the 20th century Arthur Conan Doyle’s great detective was depicted and in some…
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