Society
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New gluten-free beer arrives on Czech market
A Czech micro-brewery in Ostrava is now producing gluten-free beer, a product that is bound to delight Czech sufferers of Celiac disease- a condition of intolerance to…
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Czech health care 20 years on: better, more expensive and in need of serious reforms
This month, Czechs celebrate 20 years since the Velvet Revolution that overthrew the communist regime in their country. The fall of communism changed practically all…
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Czech Muslim organization invites controversial Dutch politician to screen anti-Islamic film
After the Czech Senate banned a planned appearance on its premises by the controversial far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders last week, the Czech Muslim organization…
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PM expresses regret over Roma sterilization but activists say practice continues
Human rights campaigners won an important moral victory on Monday when the government of Jan Fischer expressed regret over the forced sterilization of women, almost all of…
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Jan Macháček - music and journalism, before the revolution and after
Journalist and musician Jan Macháček has lived an interesting and varied life both before and after the Velvet Revolution. In the 1980s he came to be known as a guitarist…
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Environment Ministry launches extensive new landscape atlas
The Ministry of Environment is launching a unique landscape atlas of the Czech Republic. The result of six years work, it contains more than 1200 maps produced by over 300…
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Sociological study suggests residents in wine-growing regions happier with their lives
New results in a Czech sociological study (part of a larger long-term European project measuring values across European countries) have suggested that an overwhelming…
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1989 from abroad
The events of 1989 commemorated 20 years on this week brought back many emotional memories. I was 19 when it happened, still living at home, only not in Czechoslovakia…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: the 20th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution, reception in China, the story of Czech asylum seeker Ferdinand Platil in Canada in 1968…
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Magazine
A Czech talk-show host sets a new record: a non-stop 40 hour talk-show. Czech photographer Václav Šilha snaps an alligator in big trouble and chefs prepare to compete in…
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Lions kill rare white tiger at Liberec Zoo
A rare white tigress was killed by two lions at the Liberec Zoo in north Bohemia on Thursday, as zookeepers stood by helpless, unable to prevent the tragedy. In the…
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Institute director Pavel Žáček: petition against me “like voice from the past”
The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes is under pressure this week after a petition was circulated calling for the dismissal of the Institute’s director…
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