Society
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Terezín wartime memorial hit by theft
More than 300 bronze plates with the names of wartime victims were stolen last week from the National Cemetery in Terezín, north of Prague, which served as a ghetto for…
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Collecting the unusual: A look at the Curiosity Collectors’ Club
Collecting as a hobby is popular in the Czech Republic as it is throughout the world: the country has no shortage of those who collect prints, coins, stamps, and works of…
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Czech National Museum celebrates its 190th anniversary
Hundreds of people used the opportunity on Tuesday to browse the collections of the Czech National Museum for free. The country’s biggest museum has opened its doors to…
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Mini One World festival opens at New York’s Bohemian National Hall
The One World (Jeden Svět) festival of human rights documentaries has established itself as one of the most interesting events on the Czech Republic’s cultural calendar…
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Havel in new bid to help EU money “trickle down” to pro-democracy groups
The former Czech president Václav Havel is in Brussels on Tuesday to launch a new pan-European human rights initiative called the European Foundation for Democracy through…
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Delhi, Oxford, Prague – the three homes of Paul Flather
On the occasion of its 660th anniversary, Charles University recently hosted an annual meeting of Europaeum, an association of ten leading European universities, including…
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Grandson of Alphonse Mucha hoping Slav Epic will finally find permanent home in Prague
Alphonse Mucha’s Art Nouveau paintings are among the most instantly recognisable works in Czech art. He himself considered the Slav Epic, a series of huge paintings…
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Petr Torák: the Roma refugee who became a British policeman
Petr Torák is being touted as the ‘new face of British policing’. But he actually comes from Liberec, northern Bohemia. Having emigrated from the Czech Republic with his…
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Ostrava tram crash: three dead, forty injured
Three people died and nearly forty were injured on Friday in Ostrava, North Moravia, when two trams crashed in a gruesome head-on collision. The causes of the crash are…
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The hidden life of Czech hospitals
Unfortunate circumstance have forced me to spend more time in hospitals in recent weeks than I would like to, although I was lucky to be only a visitor, not a patient…
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Magazine
Visitors to Prague will soon get another chance to view the Czech coronation jewels. A 19-year old Czech girl has won the Czech speed beer drinking contest. The first-ever…
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Renovation work begins at Prague’s main station
Prague’s main station, Hlavní nádraží, is getting a facelift. In the first stage of a complete reconstruction, two glittering new shops have opened in the station’s…
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