Society
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Young Wine an Old Custom
A few weeks ago, the word burcak began to appear in the windows of pubs and bars across the Czech Republic. It's the Czech word for young wine. But what does it taste like…
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Loophole allows illegal billions to be stashed away in bank accounts
The country's leading financial daily Hospodarske noviny reported on Monday on a legal loophole which police believe is allowing people to deposit billions of crowns in…
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Miss Czech Republic takes Miss World crown
Heightened anti-terrorist measures, a wiretapping scandal and an uncertain political situation - the news from the Czech Republic is pretty glum these days but over the…
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Gerhardt Bubnik - the first Czech to graduate from Harvard
Gerhardt Bubnik is a successful attorney, a former international figure ice-skating referee and a highly respected professional. Despite all his achievements in both law…
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Snakes in the metro
The incident happened in Prague's metro system, on the 'C' line. To be more specific, when the news hit the wires one Monday morning earlier this month, HE was already out…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: Comments on Radio Prague programmes, DRM, question about a Radio Prague reporter. Listeners quoted: Ted Schuerzinger, Brian Kendall, Jonathan Murphy…
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Magazine
Czech farmers have produced white carrots! Kafkaesque administration: a non-existent bridge gets officially abolished. And whatever happened to the boy who played the…
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Prague Zoo celebrates 75th birthday
The Prague Zoo celebrated its 75th year in style this week, with festivities coinciding with the national holiday of St Wenceslas Day on September 28th. As Patrick Ryan…
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Pirate of Prague inches closer to extradition to U.S.
Viktor Kozeny, the so-called Pirate of Prague, appeared one step closer to extradition to the United States on Thursday. A court in the Bahamas - Mr Kozeny's adopted home…
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Hundreds of former Communist secret police agents in Czech police force
One of the steps taken by the Czech Republic to come to terms with its communist past were so-called 'lustrace', or screening laws. They were meant to prevent former…
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Czech medical transplantation forty years after first organ transplant
Forty years ago, Czech surgeons conducted their first ever successful organ transplant. Their patient was 24-year old Karel Pavlik, who received a kidney from his mother…
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Centre of Prague depopulating
Those of you who have visited Prague know that during the day, the city centre swarms with people, both tourists and locals. But come evening many windows on the upper…
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