Society
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Sex-workers’ theatre group play Prague festival on Saturday
This weekend sees the 19th annual ‘Babí léto’ festival take place at Prague’s Bohnice psychiatric clinic. The festival comprises of both music and drama and, for the fifth…
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Prague's boring modern architecture
“I’m standing outside “Tančicí Dům” or “Dancing House” which is on the waterfront of the Vltava river pretty much in the centre of Prague. This is quite an unusual…
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Pioneering addiction centre celebrates sixtieth anniversary
The addiction centre at Prague’s Apolinářská hospital – one of the first facilities of its kind in the world - celebrated its 60th anniversary on Wednesday. To mark the…
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The oldest Czech pasta plant relies on traditional taste of its customers
Since 1884, the Zátka Brothers’s plant in Boršov nad Vltavou, just south of České Budějovice in southern Bohemia, has been producing noodles, spaghetti, macaroni and other…
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Sting journalism in Czech politics: pursuing the news, or generating it?
Civic Democrat MP Jan Morava resigned on Tuesday after being exposed as being ready to use staged photos to blackmail a party rival. But the case has raised some serious…
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Head of National Library sacked over ‘Blob’ dispute
The dispute over the design of the new National Library building by renowned Czech-born architect Jan Kaplický came to a head on Tuesday, when the minister of culture…
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Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes maps lives of Czechs executed by Communists
On Tuesday, the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes announced a new project on its website, posting the biographies of individuals who were brutally…
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Eighty-seven year-old woman faces jail for role in Milada Horáková execution.
On Tuesday, an eighty-seven year-old former prosecutor called Ludmila-Brožová-Polednová lost her appeal against a murder sentence for her role in the trial and execution…
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Comics publishing in the Czech Republic: from Garfield to the avant garde
In the past when Czechs thought about comics, classic children’s publications like Čtyřlístek (Fourleaf Clover), about four animal characters, or Fast Arrows – adventure…
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Czechs rank amongst Europe's biggest fish producers, so why don’t they eat more fish?
Perhaps unsurprisingly for a landlocked country, the Czech Republic has one of the lowest rates of fish consumption in the European Union. Czechs eat around five kilograms…
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Top Czech stamp collector presents a book with his treasures
“The Rarest Czechoslovak Postage Stamps in the Collection of Ludvík Pytlíček” is the name of a new book which presents arguably the greatest collection of Czechoslovak…
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Websites offering Czechs new way to buy beer
Do you feel like having a beer but are you too lazy to go to a pub or a supermarket? If you live in the Czech Republic all you have to do is go on-line and order beer…
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