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  • Katyn, Konev and the battle for memory
    The row over the recent removal of a statue of the Soviet Marshall Ivan
    Konev in Prague reminded us that the legacy of the recent past remains
    highly sensitive. Add to this the Russian-Polish debate over this month’s
    80th anniversary of the Katyn massacre and you might be forgiven for
    thinking that Second World War never really ended. David Vaughan spoke to
    the Swedish-based Czech historian, Tomáš Sniegoň, who has made a close
    study of Katyn and other sites of Stalinist atrocities in the former Soviet
    Union. The example of Katyn, he says, reminds us just how hard it is to
    memorialize the traumatic and complex legacy of the war and the period of
    Stalinism.
    16 min
  • Govt. advisor: Pandemic has forced us to increase digitisation – let’s embrace it fully
    European states are facing economic interventions unprecedented since the
    Second World War, says Danuše Nerudová, currently a member of a special
    economic advisory team to the government’s COVID-19 task force. The
    economist believes this is a major opportunity to speed up much needed
    reforms. When we spoke, she explained how the Czech Republic could harness
    such change to move away from its image as a “fitting shop” economy
    focused on assembling products such as cars.
    3 min
  • “They were so desperate they were almost crying” – Volunteers supply face masks to Czech nursing homes
    Realising around a month ago that Czech nursing homes were not receiving
    surgical masks or other materials needed to combat Covid-19, journalist
    Judita Matyášová began doing something about it. Under the name Roušky
    seniorům (Face Masks for Seniors), she and three dozen other volunteers
    have now delivered around 20,000 to facilities around the country. I
    discussed the initiative with Matyášová.
    5 min
  • The genius of Santini
    He was a phenomenal architect and intellectual. Jan Blažej Santini Aichel
    (usually known just as Santini) lived in the 17th and early18th century.
    Born to an Italian father and Czech mother in Prague, he left a legacy of
    great churches and non-sacral buildings around the Czech Republic. Vit
    Pohanka visited the Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk on Zelená
    Hora.
    14 min
  • Moravian priest on celebrating Easter amidst a coronavirus crisis
    Easter is the second biggest holiday in the Czech Republic after Christmas,
    observed in most homes around the country. This year however, the Easter
    celebrations will be much more humble than in previous years, as
    churches around the country have been forced to cancel masses due to the
    ongoing coronavirus crisis.
    6 min
  • Organizers of public Bible reading expect to attract more people than ever this year
    One of the more recent Easter traditions in the Czech Republic is a
    nation-wide public reading of the Bible. The event, first held in 2009, was
    initiated by the foundation Bible 21, and has since attracted thousands of
    people. I spoke to its founder, Alexandr Flek, a publisher, theologian and
    the chief translator of the modern Czech Bible version, Bible 21, about
    this year’s edition of the event but I first asked him about how it all
    started.
    8 min
  • Easter: Pilsner for the Pope, green beer for Czechs
    Pope Francis could be well enjoying a cool one right now – a golden Czech
    lager, that is, straight from the source: Plzeň. In March, as has become
    the tradition, the Vicar General of that Bohemian city blessed ingredients
    for a special Easter batch of Pilsner Urquell. The pale lager was then
    dispatched to the Vatican, to be handed over to the Pontiff by the
    brewmaster himself. One thing’s for certain, many Czechs celebrated
    Easter holy week in part by drinking … green beer.
    5 min
  • Czech hotels offer free accommodation to Covid-19 front-line workers
    Zachran hotel, or “Save a hotel” in English, is the title of a new
    initiative aimed at helping the Czech accommodation industry overcome the
    coronavirus crisis. The project, a joint effort of the travel website
    Amazing Places and the technology company Mervis, also wants to help those
    working on the front lines by providing them with free accommodation.
    4 min
  • Kynžvart Chateau in West Bohemia awarded European Heritage Label
    Among the ten new localities recently awarded the European Heritage Label
    is Kynžvart Chateau in West Bohemia. The chateau once played a significant
    role in European history, and its interiors give visitors an authentic feel
    of what it must have been like when the chateau hosted diplomats and
    artists from around Europe.
    4 min
  • Czech Television preparing new sitcom about coronavirus lockdown
    “One house, three generations and a global pandemic,” that’s the
    focus of a new six-episode sitcom currently being prepared by Czech
    Television, entitled ‘Love in the Time of Coronavirus’. The show,
    alluding to Gabriel García Márquez’s famous novel ‘Love in the Time
    of Cholera, will be set in several Prague apartments during the coronavirus
    lockdown.
    4 min

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