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Cross-country skiing in Czechia
Cross-country skiing is becoming the thing "to do" in the Czech Republic. In the past two or three decades, more Czechs preferred downhill skiing either at home or in one…
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Jaroslav Peprník – Learning English the hard way in wartime and beyond
Today, nine out of 10 Czech children are learning English at school. It seems strange that for decades English was considered the language of the enemy – first by Nazi…
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Czechs looking to 2019 with optimism
2018 has been a good year for the Czech economy. Unemployment is the lowest in the European Union, wages have grown both in the public and private sector. But statistical…
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Immigration changing Czech society
The Czech society has traditionally been quite homogenous. Of course, there have always been regional differences in dialect, culture, folk music. But people understand…
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Moravian Christmas – how different is it from that in Bohemia?
Czechia is where East meets West. This may sound like an empty cliché that many other countries or even cities use to promote themselves. But it is definitely true that…
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A century of Czech independence - according to Pavel Kosatík
As the end of 2018 draws near, Czechs are reflecting on the century of their independent state. All years ending in “8” have a special meaning for this nation – 1918, 1938…
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Brewing in Brno: alive and well
The best known Czech beer is undoubtedly Pilsner Urquell. Budvar (sold as Czechvar in the United States and some other countries) is probably the second most prominent…
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“Paneláks” – home for many Czechs, but what does the future hold?
Every third Czech lives in a „panelák“. These blocks of flats made of prefabricated parts are a typical feature of all the former Soviet satellite countries. They were…
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Czechs and the aristocracy: a love-hate relationship
Czechs have always had somewhat contradictory feelings toward their nobility. One of the country’s leading aristocrats once even bitterly complained that Czechs are either…
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Recycling – the key to solving the Czech waste problem
Like all other developed countries, Czechia has a waste problem. Even though Czech households do not, actually, produce half as much garbage as those in the United States…
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