Society
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Court recognises descendant’s rights to film Golem
Visitors to the Czech capital will likely have come across the legend of the Prague Golem – the famous man-like creature - created by Rabbi Yehuda Loew in the 16th century…
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Czechs in Afghanistan VI: Teach a man to farm and you feed him for a lifetime
Today Radio Prague returns to Afghanistan, and the Czechs at work rebuilding a country where an estimated 72% of the population is illiterate. In this edition of Czechs in…
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Travel agency offers retro 'workers’ holidays' for nostalgic Czechs
It’s twenty years since the fall of communism, but there are some Czechs nostalgic for aspects of life before 1989. Many older people, for example, have fond memories of…
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Mercedes Dietrichstein: We just want justice
The south Moravian town of Mikulov, located just on the Austrian border, was for many centuries the seat of the aristocratic family of the Dietrichsteins. After the Second…
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Trial of four accused of racially-motivated attempted murder begins
The trial of four defendants accused of racially-motivated attempted murder in an attack on a Romany family last year began under tight security on Tuesday in the city of…
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Czech Ombudsman Otakar Motejl dies at 77
The Czech Ombudsman Otakar Motejl died on Sunday at the age of 77. The country’s first ever public defender of citizens’ rights, previously served as justice minister and…
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Dogs like us
The sun has brought out the flowers, the flip-flops, the ice-cream stands, the short shorts, people who shouldn’t wear short shorts wearing them regardless… and the dogs…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: the Czech Republic’s commemorative stamp for World Expo 2010, shortwave broadcasting, the beginnings of aviation in the country, annual listeners’…
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Magazine
Beatlemania is heading for Prague in the form of a new exhibition recalling what the Fab Four meant for young people growing up under communism. Brno is to get a major new…
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Czech intelligence sees decrease in right-wing extremism
Activities of right-wing extremists have dropped in the first three months of this year, according to a report by the Czech intelligence service, or BIS, released on…
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Czechs in Afghanistan, Pt. V: In water there is death, life and livelihood
About 28% of Afghanistan’s population have access to clean drinking water – that means 20 million people in the country do not. While we usually think of war and poverty…
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Female football referee Dagmar Damková celebrated in song
The song Růže mezi trny, or Rose among Thorns, by the star singer-songwriter Jaromír Nohavica, is a tribute to female football referee Dagmar Damková. On Sunday, she…
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