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A recent survey of 2,000 Czechs on attitudes towards ethnic, racial, religious and sexual minority groups, finds that “the younger the Czech, the greater the likelihood they have tolerant attitudes and respect human rights”. However, the survey commissioned by the HateFree Culture campaign shows an overwhelming majority consider “coexistence” with the Roma and Muslim minorities especially “problematic”.

The Czech Security Council has accepted a new 15 point action plan on how to counter hybrid threats. If approved by the government, it will delineate tasks that ministries and state agencies have to fulfil within the next two years as part of the country’s new hybrid threats strategy.

Pilsen is, without a doubt, synonymous with beer. And the Brewery Museum, located on the outskirts of the city, celebrates the golden brew that put Pilsen on the world map. It offers a unique look into the brewing process of the Middle Ages, and displays beer-related paraphernalia from all over the world, including curiosities such as the world’s smallest beer jug and a huge Siberian tankard. An inseparable part of every visit to the Brewery Museum is the tasting of a Pilsner beer.

Czechia has seen a significant rise in tinnitus cases since 2019. Among them are people who had Covid-19, but also an unusually high number of young adults who did not contract the virus. Czech specialists say stress could be a factor.

What Afghans miss the most since the country was taken over by the Taliban this summer is freedom. Lack of aid strategy also helped government corruption, says Zakia, an Afghan woman with Czech residency who managed to leave the country after several failed attempts to cross the border.

Covid-19 numbers in the Czech Republic are again growing at an alarming rate, with Tuesday and Wednesday seeing double the new cases as the same days last week. The government has responded with fresh measures, including mandatory respirators at workplaces and Covid certificate checks at spots like bars.

My Sunny Maad, an animated film by Czech director Michaela Pavlátová, will seek a nomination for the Animated Feature Oscar. The Czech-French-Slovak coproduction film about a Czech woman married to an Afghan man has already won the Jury Prize at the Annecy Festival in France and the main prize in Mexico’s Guadalajara.

For older generations of Czechs – and European designers of virtually any age – “bentwood furniture” and Bystřice pod Hostýnem are synonymous. For it was in that tiny Moravian town that hundreds of thousands one of the world’s most iconic pieces of furniture, known simply as “Chair No. 14”, literally took shape. In essence, modern furniture what born at what is today the TON factory – which has operated without interruption since 1861.

There have been a slew of headlines involving Miloš Zeman’s team since the speaker of the Senate made public a doctors’ statement that the president is unable to perform his duties. These include a pledge from Prime Minister Babiš to remove Mr. Zeman’s head of office. To make some sense of all these news stories, I spoke to political scientist Jiří Pehe.

The current state of Czech President Miloš Zeman’s health and the lack of information provided by his office have raised a debate about the public’s right to information with regard to the country’s top official. Miloš Zeman is not the first head of state who has suffered from serious health problems during his presidency that impacted his ability to work. Czech Radio has mapped out how information about the president’s health was provided to the public since the founding of Czechoslovakia.