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Czech Environment Minister Jan Dusík resigns Czech Environment Minister Jan Dusík stepped down on Thursday over a conflict with the energy giant ČEZ. The Environment…
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Heroes or cowards? Czechs in World War II

There are two widely held stereotypes of Czechs during the war: while some see a plucky little nation that heroically struggled to survive under the Nazi jackboot, others…
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There's an old Czech saying to the effect that the darkest place in a gaslit room is right under the gas lamp. That would be the typical Czech response to the news that…
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Czech government to send more arms aid to Iraq and Jordan The Czech government on Monday agreed to send more help in the form of arms to Iraq and Jordan to help their…
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Czech arms producers push for changes in licensing to increase exports

Czech weapons producers are pushing for a change of the government’s system of approving arms exports. Sales of Czech-made weapons abroad last year rose by to nearly seven…
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Czech Republic expels Cuban attache The Czech Republic has expelled the Cuban attaché to Prague, refusing to extend his visa. Havana did the same to Czech diplomat…
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Details released of Václav Havel’s funeral procession The authorities on Tuesday released details about Václav Havel’s funeral procession. The casket with the remains of…
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Foreign Minister to travel to Tunisia, Morocco Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg is set to visit Tunisia and Morocco next week. Mr. Schwarzenberg will be traveling to…
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The story of a Czech WW II airman and his remarkable dog

Many countries have had famous war animals, one remembered in Great Britain is Antis, an Alsatian belonging to Czech airman Václav Robert Bozděch. More than 60 years ago…
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The story of a Czech WW II airman and his remarkable dog

Many countries have had famous war animals, one remembered in Great Britain this year was Antis, an Alsatian belonging to Czech airman Václav Robert Bozděch. 60 years ago…
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New book sheds light on the post-war hunt for Nazi war criminals in Czechoslovakia

After the end of the Second World War it was often very difficult to catch and bring Nazi war criminals and their collaborators to justice. Historian Vojtěch Kyncl from…
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Otto Pick – War years just start of peripatetic, colourful life

Professor Otto Pick was one of nearly 700 Jewish children who escaped the Nazis on a transport to the UK organised by Nicholas Winton, a British diplomat based in Prague…
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Experts start clearing Vrbětice munitions depot Pyrotechnics experts have begun clearing the site of a damaged munitions depot in Vrbětice, eastern Moravia. The operation…
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New film depicts the rise of ruthless crime bosses in 1990s Czech Republic

Přiběh kmotra (A Godfather’s Story) opened in Czech cinemas last month and has attracted both thriller fans and those who remember the turbulent 1990s, when Czech society…
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“The day I first saw a map of the future Czechoslovakia” – WW1 survivors remember the birth of their new state

Exactly 100 years ago, on October 28th 1918, the new sovereign state of Czechoslovakia declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire the Czech lands and…
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Czech military base in Basra comes under fire The Czech military base in Basra, southern Iraq, was hit in a missile attack on Monday. No one was injured in the incident…
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Czech friend’s connection to '68 pics gave me goose bumps, says Paul Goldsmith, US teen photographer who captured Soviet invasion

When I asked Paul Goldsmith by phone if he knew where Czech Radio was he said, I think so, but the last time I saw it it was on fire. At just 19 he had found himself in…
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'Den-D': The Czech role in the Allied invasion of Normandy

Czechoslovak participation in the first weeks of "Operation Overlord"—the invasion of Normandy that began on June 6, 1944—was almost exclusively limited to the air, as…
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Big stories of 2000

Hello and welcome to Radio Prague. As we've almost reached the end of the year 2000, today's programme is devoted to a review of the events that made the headlines this…
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I was very keen on teaching the Germans a lesson, says Tomáš Lom, one of few surviving Czech RAF vets

Tomáš Lom is one of the very few surviving Czechoslovaks who served in Britain’s RAF during World War II. Born Tomáš Löwenstein into a Jewish family in Prague, he signed…
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Eda Kriseová, Part 2: People hate Havel for his morality

Writer and former dissident Eda Kriseová worked closely with Václav Havel during his first few years as president. She headed Prague Castle’s Complaints and Pardons…
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Josef Horak, a twentieth century Czech hero

I was recently involved in making a film about Lidice, the Czech village that the Nazis wiped off the map in June 1942. In the course of my research I met many people…
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Czech think-tank Sinopsis: Chinese ‘investment’ marred by endemic corruption, intransparency

Ahead of the 30th anniversary of China’s crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, Radio Prague spoke to Filip Jirouš, coordinator of the…
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The 17th of November: Remembering Jan Opletal, martyr of an occupied nation

On the 28th of October, 1939, Czechoslovak Independence day, Czech students took to the streets to demonstrate against the Nazi occupation. The protest was brutally…
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‘The SS Officer’s Armchair: Uncovering the hidden life of a Nazi’ stationed in occupied Prague – part II

Historian Daniel Lee's latest book, The SS Officer’s Armchair: Uncovering the hidden life of a Nazi, is the story of a German lawyer who served in in occupied Prague.
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