Society
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Plzeň braces - again – for neo-Nazi march
For the second time this year, the city of Plzeň in West Bohemia is bracing itself for a march by neo-Nazi skinheads. As many as 400 skinheads will march down a route that…
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Architect Kaplický frustrated over National Library project
It is exactly a year since the Czech-born London-based architect Jan Kaplický won an international competition for a new National Library building on Prague’s Letná Plain…
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Czech prime minister grants first official recognition of controversial Mašín group
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has surprised many by honouring the anti-communist fighter Josef Mašín. Mr Topolánek was due to present the US resident with a prime…
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Replica of 1940s Czech “snow car” tested before going to American museum
A replica of the Czech made Tatra aero sledge, which was produced for the Germans during the Second World War, has recently been made for a collector in the United States…
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Ondřej Kohout: exiled artist who made Vienna his home
In this edition of Czechs Today, we talk to Ondřej Kohout, a painter and stage designer who left Czechoslovakia with his family in the early 1980s after signing the…
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Communist advisor – ‘stubborn facts’ prove Czechs benefited from 1948
Not everyone who marked the 60th anniversary of the communist takeover on Monday was mourning the victims of the regime. Several hundred mostly elderly Communist Party…
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Czech Republic marks anniversary of 1948 communist putsch
It was 60 years ago Monday, that Czech President Edvard Beneš, under enormous pressure, capitulated and appointed a communist government led by Klement Gottwald. This…
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Getting connected
With nearly all of my friends meeting on Facebook and chatting over Skype, I was starting to feel somewhat left out and decided to “get connected” as well. I got on the…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: Nuclear power plants in the Czech Republic; the whereabouts of Obergruppenführer Hans Kammler at the end of WWII; Radio Prague’s One on One jingle…
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Magazine
Kisses in the air – Czechs help set a new record on Valentines’ Day. Who needs a washing machine? Czech scientists are working on self-cleaning textiles. And, the strange…
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“Heparin killer” gets life in prison
A court in Hradec Králové sentenced a male nurse to life in prison on Thursday for murdering seven patients and trying to kill ten more. Petr Zelenka, 31, will spend the…
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Life on a motorway
I am standing on Prague’s magistrála, an artery cutting through the centre of Prague. If you have ever visited the Czech capital you could hardly have failed to notice the…
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