Society
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New stretches of motorway will have Prague battling enormous traffic
In the Czech Republic, the first motorway was opened as late as in 1971. It was completed many years after construction, slowed down by the Second World War and the…
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Asylum seekers disappear without a trace
Czech police are still searching for over seventy of some ninety asylum seekers who have disappeared from two holding centres. The Egyptian nationals escaped on Friday…
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Daria Klimentova - prima ballerina at the English National Ballet
The Czech Republic's best known ballet dancer, Daria Klimentova, has been in Prague recently hosting, as she does every summer, a ballet master class. Born here in the…
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Over two dozen Neo-Nazis detained for questioning
On Sunday, a group of neo-Nazis gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Prague to protest against Israel's Middle East policy. Knives, truncheons, and gas pistols had to…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: Magazine theme tune once again; ice hockey and Czech-Canadian relations; new driving regulations; Leos Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen. Listeners quoted…
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East Tilbury: a Czech modernist Utopia on the Thames marshes
There is one corner of England that is forever Czech. If you drive through the open, windswept landscape of the Thames marshes just beyond the eastern suburbs of London…
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Magazine
A man wearing a kilt mounted St. Wenceslas' horse this week. A Swedish news channel mistakenly showed viewers scenes from a Czech porn film. And - is he wearing Wonder…
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Cheap cars rally heading for Prague
Dramatic headlines in some Czech papers this week warned of an "illegal car race" heading for Prague which will leave the city overrun by rusty wrecks, turning it into a…
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Proposed anti-terrorism centre raises issue of ineffective legislation
Earlier this week, Interior Minister Frantisek Bublan introduced plans for the Czech Republic to establish an anti-terrorism centre. Police and intelligence services have…
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A brighter future for Czech women in politics?
In the second half of the 20th century governments as well as various international organizations decided to pay more attention to low numbers of women involved in…
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Masaryk University lays trap for copycats
With the increasing availability of different texts in electronic form, copyright violation has become easier - but also easier to track down. Experts from Masaryk…
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Prague street named after Karel Kryl - musical icon of 1968
Monday marked the 38th anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet-led troops in 1968. Even though the last Soviet soldier left the country fifteen years ago…
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