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11/17/2025
The song ‘A Prayer for Marta’ was just heard on the completely packed Národní Street in Prague this evening. One of the symbols of the Velvet Revolution was performed at 17:11 from the balcony of the Metro Palace by actor and singer Jan Cina. In the final bars, onlookers joined in singing. Afterwards, they applauded and rang their keys for a long time, just as people did more than 36 years ago, when key-ringing was one of the characteristic signs of gatherings against the Communist regime.
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11/17/2025
On Tuesday, expect mostly cloudy weather. Temperature highs will range from 1 to 5 °C,
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11/17/2025
A procession of two hundred people in masks passed through the center of Prague on Monday to use a carnival-style event to highlight the risks of modern technologies, the protection of the environment and animal rights, the lack of affordable housing, and the dangers of indifference. The festival, called Velvet Wake, involved mainly secondary school and university students as well as representatives of non-profit organizations.
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11/17/2025
The Concert for the Future has begun in Prague. Hundreds of people arrived at the event in the lower part of Wenceslas Square even before it started, and more are still coming. According to the organizers from the civic association Nerudný fest, the event connects music, civic dialogue, and the values of freedom and democracy. This year’s theme is ‘Democracy’s Safeguards: Knowing Your Limits’. The roughly five-hour program will be hosted this year by presenters Jenovéfa Boková and Jindřich Šídlo.
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11/17/2025
Someone hung Ukrainian flags on the fence of the house of Tomio Okamura (SPD), the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies. The flags were also painted or spray-painted on sidewalks, steps, poles, and bins. The incident is being investigated by the police, Prague police spokesman Jan Daněk confirmed to ČTK. After his recent election as Speaker, Okamura had the Ukrainian flag removed from the Chamber of Deputies building. The ČTK newsroom today received an email from a group calling itself the Velvet Remembrancers. The group claimed responsibility for the act and said it wanted to express dissatisfaction with the behavior of the country’s leaders. Okamura criticized the act.
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11/17/2025
Thousands of people arrived on Monday afternoon at a demonstration organized by the Milion Chvilek association against the formation of an ANO‑SPD‑Motorists government at Prague’s Old Town Square, where the area quickly filled shortly after the protest began. Many demonstrators were holding flags of Czechia, the European Union, Ukraine, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The organizers of the event, titled Czechia Is Not for Sale, are protesting against the emerging government, which they say is built on a mafia-like principle. Even before the demonstration began, they screened a video about Milion Chvilek. During a clip of a 2021 pre-election spot by the likely future Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO), loud boos were heard.
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11/17/2025
On Monday, singer Marta Kubišová launched an album at the Melantrich building in Prague, featuring a recording of her last public performance this September at Prague’s Lucerna. She released her last studio album, titled Soul, eight years ago and officially ended her singing career on 1 November 2017. Since then, she has performed only occasionally. Kubišová symbolically launched her concert recording in the very place where, during the November Revolution of 1989, her performance of the song Modlitba pro Martu (later the unofficial anthem of the Velvet Revolution) was heard from the balcony of the Melantrich Palace on Wenceslas Square. Actress Eva Holubová became the album’s godmother. The vinyl album, in a limited symbolic edition of 1,989 copies, will go on sale in December.
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11/17/2025
On Monday, Czechia commemorates the revolutionary events of 1989 that led to the fall of the Communist regime, as well as the persecution of students during the Nazi occupation 50 years earlier. The traditional center of the events was Prague’s Národní Street, which, despite cold and rainy weather, was filled with thousands of people during the morning. The arrivals of politicians across the political spectrum, as in previous years, sparked strong emotions among both their opponents and supporters.
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11/17/2025
At the Černín Palace on Monday, outgoing Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský (independent, elected for Spolu) awarded the Medal of Merit for Diplomacy to the outgoing government envoy for Ukraine’s reconstruction Tomáš Kopečný, former Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová Adamová (TOP 09), and departing national security adviser Tomáš Pojar. He did so on the occasion of the 17 November national holiday. In total, he honored six individuals.
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11/17/2025
Members of the Motorists movement, led by their chairman Petr Macinka, arrived shortly before noon today at the 17 November memorial on Národní Street to a turbulent atmosphere. Boos and shouts of “Shame,” as well as expressions of support, were directed mainly at the Motorists’ honorary president Filip Turek, who could become foreign minister in the emerging ANO–SPD–Motorists government.
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