Society
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Helsinki Committee’s work was only getting started when communism fell, says director Lucie Rybová
Along with Charter 77 and the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Persecuted, the Czechoslovak Helsinki Committee was a key dissident organisation in the communist…
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Ministers of interior, justice, in favour of tougher sanctions against reckless drivers
The authorities are looking at new means of clamping down on reckless, drunk or aggressive drivers, known in the Czech press as ‘pirates of the road’. On Tuesday, the…
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Web-informed customers demanding high prices contributing to closures, says antique store owner…
Prague’s Kubelíková St. is home to Nanoantik, a small antique shop packed with everything from Brussels ’58 design objects to funky lamps to African sculptures. It’s owned…
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Czech games publisher & distributor introduces new line of storybook games
In this week’s Czech Life we talk to Libor Pešl of Czech games publisher and distributor Albi about the usefulness of games in education and we test one of the titles in a…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: Response to Radio Prague’s reports on the crash of the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine and the IMF’s criticism of Czech economic policies; answers to last…
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Prague Pride 2014 to support LGBT rights in repressive states
Next week’s Prague Pride festival will celebrate LGBT culture through over 100 events culminating in a parade through the city centre that has in the past seen 20,000…
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Government prepares legislation to assist excluded social groups
The Czech government has formally begun preparing new legislation, which will assist socially disadvantaged groups in finding employment in Czech businesses and public…
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Prague’s FAMU ranked fourth best international film school
Prague’s FAMU has been ranked fourth best international film school in the Hollywood Reporter’s annual Top Film Schools list. The publication praises the film and TV…
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Czech Radio: increasing number of parents opposed to ‘hexa vaccine’
The hexa vaccine, a simultaneous vaccination for children targeting six serious diseases including whooping cough and Hepatitis B, has been administered in the Czech…
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Magazine
In Magazine: a man gets a tall fine for waking up the mayor with a complaint, a woman takes her mother’s ashes to an energy company to prove that she’s not about to pay…
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Compensation for victims of forced sterilisation planned
Plans are afoot to compensate thousands of Czech women, many from the Roma minority, sterilised against their will between the early 1970s and the early 1990s. Lidové…
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MPs vote to raise cigarette prices in order to meet EU directive
The price of cigarettes in the Czech Republic is due to rise by up to four crowns for a pack of 20. Wednesday’s approval of the price hike in the lower house followed a…
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