Society
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Charles Bridge: the MTV years
The hugely successful American musician Kanye West was in Prague recently making what is being described as a movie to accompany his as yet untitled new album. The rapper…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: New signature tune, vocabulary concerning same-sex marriages, wetlands in the Czech Republic, a question about an internet TV channel, Czech tennis…
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Magazine
Hockey legend Dominik Hašek’s fifteen-year-old daughter Dominika steps out of her father’s shadow. Some of the stones extracted and replaced during the reconstruction of…
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Dogs for company, cats from habit: more than half of Czech households own a pet
More than half of Czech households keep a pet, a new survey by the Focus research agency has found out. The most popular animals Czechs keep at home are – not surprisingly…
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Born in Bohemia…but forgotten by Czechs?
What do Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler and Ferdinand Porsche have in common? Most of us would assume that these well-known personalities were all born in Germany or Austria…
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Newly uncovered footage shows how Communists wanted to depict events of ‘89
Historians at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes have announced they recently uncovered previously unknown video footage in the archives on the events of…
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Far-left group may face charges for spreading Stalinist views on Katyn massacre
A far-left Czech grouping, the Communist Youth Union, faces a criminal complaint over a report on the Katyn massacre posted on its website. The report, compiled by the…
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Plzeň triumphs in culture capital bid
The Czech city of Plzeň – best known for its world-famous lager – has reason to celebrate: on Wednesday shortly after 4 pm, members of an international jury announced that…
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Ex-Constitutional Court judge Pavel Varvařovský elected new Czech ombudsman
The lower house of Parliament has elected lawyer Pavel Varvařovský the new Czech ombudsman. The former Constitutional Court judge, who was nominated by the right-of-centre…
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New York Times Prague-based correspondent Dan Bilefsky on covering Eastern Europe
In the early 1990s, Prague was in the spotlight of international media with scores of foreign correspondents reporting on developments in free Czechoslovakia. Since then…
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Statues –all change!
This week the city hall of Ústí nad Labem opened a new atrium which it had reconstructed at considerable expense - more than thirty million crowns. It was back-slapping…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox we reveal the identity of August’s mystery Czechs – yes, there are two of them – and announce the names of the winners (again two this time). Listeners…
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