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Richard Drury – English curator at home in Czech art world

Not long after moving to Prague at the start of 1991, Englishman Richard Drury began working as a curator at the Central Bohemian Gallery, previously known as the Czech…
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Careful eye on water levels as three Czech rivers reach critical point With further rain expected, three rivers broke their banks at points on Friday, increasing concern…
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Agrarian Chamber: farming profits to drop to 2 billion crowns The Czech Agrarian Chamber says Czech agricultural profits will reach around 2 billion crowns (around USD…
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PM lashes out at journalists The Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, has lashed out at journalists accusing them of bias, betrayal and corrupt practices and calling…
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Kiev gets offer to exchange hostage OSCE observers for Russian separatists According to a report published by the Russian Interfax news agency the group of OSCE observers…
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Real estate firms cast doubt on property market recovery

After four years of decline, prices of Czech apartments rose slightly last year. According to figures recently released by the Czech Statistics Office, apartment prices…
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A Greeting from Castle Hill: an insider’s look into Prague Castle’s forgotten era

Prague Castle is considered one of the symbols of the Czech state. Once the seat of Bohemian kings, it now houses the Office of the Czech President, and its museums and…
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Designer Pavel Fuksa & Prague City Hall reveal first in series of new public posters

Pavel Fuksa is a highly respected graphic designer and creative director who this week, together with City Hall, unveiled new posters addressing various changes in the…
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Green City Guide highlights Prague’s best eco-friendly spots

Eco-friendly hotels, bike-rentals, vegan and raw restaurants or local design boutiques, all that and much more can found in a new guide to Prague, called the Green City…
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President Zeman calls for strengthening of EU’s external borders Czech president Miloš Zeman and the heads of both houses of Parliament Milan Štěch and Jan Hamáček, have…
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Bratislava court upholds verdict stating Babiš was wrongfully listed as StB agent A court in Bratislava has upheld a verdict stating that the Czech Republic’s minister of…
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Constitutional Court upholds civil service law The Czech Constitutional Court on Thursday largely rejected a call from President Miloš Zeman to overturn a new civil…
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Czech president and veterans taking part in Normandy anniversary events The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, and a group of Czech veterans flew from Prague’s military airport…
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Spring at Prague's Botanical Gardens

For today's spotlight, and with the coming of spring firmly in mind, I hopped onto the 112 bus and headed for Prague's Botanical Gardens. Prague has the unusual accolade…
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Consumer protection turning green

In one of the recent editions of the Economics Report, we spoke about consumer protection here in the Czech Republic, its history and some of the main issues. However…
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Chair designed by Czech architect offers parents of premature children greater in-hospital privacy

In this week’s Arts, meet the Prague-based architect and designer Petr Schwarzbeck. He made headlines recently for the design of a special egg-shaped chair which in the…
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Prague composer Ian Mikyska on pushing the boundaries of contemporary classical music

Ian Mikyska is an up-and-coming composer who is pushing the boundaries of contemporary classical music.
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Edwin Muir: a Scottish poet in Prague

Literature sometimes makes for some unusual connections. What, for example, could Franz Kafka possibly have in common with the Orkney Islands off the north coast of…
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Study indicates ethnic hate is contagious

Why do ethnic conflicts in some parts of the world flare up so easily and spread so fast? Is ethnic hate and intolerance contagious? Researchers from the Czech Republic…
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Czech botanist discovers new Thismia plant in Borneo rainforest

Botanists from Palacký University in Olomouc conducting research on the island of Borneo have uncovered a new species of a plant belonging to the Thismiaceae family, small…
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Director Tereza Nvotová on Father, Mečiar and the politics making her “very scared”

Tereza Nvotová is enjoying great success with her film Father. The Prague-based director discusses it, her documentary about Slovak strongman Vladimír Mečiar and much more.
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“It’s like familiar music in my brain.” Czech summer course students on learning the language

As every year, dozens of students from all over the world arrived in Czechia to take part in this year’s edition of the annual Summer Czech Course for Expats.
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New project turns schoolchildren into field linguists to try to preserve endangered Czech dialects

The Academy of Sciences has launched a campaign to get young people involved in a new project: recording the current landscape of Czech dialects before they disappear.
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Czech Art Nouveau Symbolist sculptor František Bílek born 150 years ago today

Frantisek Bílek's villa in Hradčany is one of the most original houses in Prague. The famous Czech Art Nouveau Symbolist sculptor was borm 150 years ago today.
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Prague voted most beautiful city in the world in Time Out magazine survey

Prague was recently voted the most beautiful city in the world and the seventh best city to live in, in a poll by city-dwellers from across the globe.
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