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  • Opening of Pius XII archives could shed light on seminal period in Czechoslovak history
    The opening up of the archives of Pope Pius XII by the Vatican is seen
    worldwide as an opportunity to find answers to long-term questions about
    the secretive pontiff who was in charge of the Holy See between 1939
    and the early stages of the Cold War. There are also hopes that the
    documents could shed light on the Vatican’s position towards
    Czechoslovakia in many of the key moments of the country’s history.
    4 min
  • Collector donates valuable Japanese art to Prague’s National Gallery
    The National Gallery in Prague has received a major donation of Japanese
    Zen art, which includes over 500 hanging scrolls with ink paintings. The
    scrolls are part of the so-called Kaeru-An collection, put together by
    private art collector Felix Hess, and their value is estimated at 35
    million crowns. They will become part of the gallery’s permanent
    Collection of Asian and African Art.
    14 min
  • Phone booths disappearing from Czech streets
    There were tens of thousands of telephone booths in the Czech Republic at
    the turn of the millennium. Today there are only 1,500, with more and more
    being removed by the day. While few seem to be shedding tears of nostalgia,
    some municipalities have found new uses for them.
    4 min
  • Reality in CR shows flight restrictions can’t halt coronavirus, says Prague WHO boss
    The first incidences of the new coronavirus in the Czech Republic were
    announced on Sunday, making the country one of around 70 around the globe
    to have now registered Covid-19. On Monday the prime minister said that
    flights between the Czech Republic and three Italian cities and South Korea
    were being suspended, and that a major skiing event would take place behind
    closed doors. I discussed the latest developments with Dr. Srdan Matic,
    head of the World Health Organisation’s Czech office.
    6 min
  • Eda Kriseová, Part 2: People hate Havel for his morality
    Writer and former dissident Eda Kriseová worked closely with Václav Havel
    during his first few years as president. She headed Prague Castle’s
    Complaints and Pardons Department, then inundated with letters from Czechs
    who felt for the first time in decades that they could appeal to somebody
    in authority. Kriseová, who wrote the only authorised biography of Havel,
    even gave interviews as a kind of stand-in for the much in-demand democracy
    leader.
    12 min
  • Františka Plamínková: the feminist suffragette who ensured Czechoslovakia’s Constitution of 1920 lived up to the principle of equality
    On the 29th of February 1920, the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia
    adopted a Constitution formally establishing a democratic republic with
    guaranteed equal rights for men and women – including the right to vote.
    We look back at the life’s work of suffragette Františka Plamínková, a
    feminist teacher and activist turned politician. Together with Milada
    Horáková (her protégé and eventual successor in the Senate) she helped
    ensure principles of equality enshrined in the Constitution were actually
    put into practice.
    27 min
  • Prague square and street named after slain Russian pro-democracy activists
    The city of Prague on Thursday bowed to the courage of Russian
    pro-democracy activists who laid down their lives in the quest for human
    rights. The square Pod kastany where the Russian Embassy stands was
    officially renamed after the slain Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov
    and a nearby promenade was named after investigative journalist Anna
    Politkovskaya shot to death in 2006. Among those watching the ceremony was
    Nemtsov’s daughter Zhanna and one of Politkovskaya’s former colleagues.
    4 min
  • Czechs and Brexit Britain – Part 3: Sticking together
    In the previous episodes of the Czechs in Brexit Britain series, we
    explored what worries the local Czech community about Brexit and the new
    business ties the country is trying to establish with Britain. In our
    closing feature we will look closer at the Czech community itself and some
    of the clubs and institutions that they have built in the United Kingdom.
    10 min
  • NGO: “Czech Republic currently losing fight against statelessness”
    The Czech Republic is not doing enough to address the problem of
    international homelessness, suggests the Prague-based Organisation for Aid
    for Refugees, which has just released the country’s first Stateless
    Index. Developed by the European Network on Statelessness, the annual index
    assesses how various countries protect stateless people and what they are
    doing to prevent and reduce the problem. I discussed the issue with lawyer
    Petr Baroch from the Organisation for Aid for Refugees:
    4 min

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