Society
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Czechs rank first among Europe's consumers of cannabis
A new annual report released by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, the EMCDDA, includes some shocking statistics. In the Czech Republic, 22…
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Prague's National Museum to include former RFE building
Many visitors to Prague will easily recall the capital's National Museum - the neo-Renaissance building that crowns the top of Wenceslas Square. Over a hundred years old…
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Little-known Czechoslovak LSD tests subject of new research
LSD is usually associated with the hippy "flower power" era in the West in the late 1960s. But few people know that thousands of tests involving the psychedelic drug were…
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Paternosters lift Czech bodies and spirits
When it comes to moving between floors in Prague's taller buildings, there are more options than just elevators, escalators, and the stairs. The paternoster, an unusual…
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Is democracy under threat in central Europe?
The year 2006 will go down as a year marked by political instability in central Europe's post-Communist states. The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia have all…
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Christmas tree for Prague on its way
Although in most of the country there is no sign of snow, which is typically associated with Christmas in this part of the world, Christmas preparations have started in…
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Vietnamese traders to open grocery chain stores?
Vietnamese-owned grocery stores have become a feature of cities across the Czech Republic. They're cheap, stock good-quality produce, and they stay open late. And…
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Czech Press Photo exhibition opens at Prague's Old Town Hall
An exhibition of the best works of Czech press photography opened on Friday at Prague's Old Town Hall. Czech Press Photo, the domestic version of World Press Photo, is now…
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Simon Panek: a former student leader remembers the drama of November 1989
My guest in One on One is Simon Panek. Today he is well known as the director and one of the co-founders of People in Need, one of the Czech Republic's biggest non…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: Reception in South Asia, the dissolution of the Communist Youth Association, Bohemian folk costumes, e-mails that bounce back, and more. Listeners quoted…
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Farewell Vinohrady
There were the émigrés coming back, and us colonists of the early 1990s, and there was Vinohrady, one of those magical districts of Prague. As it was then. Vinohrady rises…
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Magazine
Czechs can now download music legally - but what are the chances of people paying for music when they can get it for free? The price of losing a bet - Czech politicians…
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