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  • Czech foreign minister: Decisive word on NATO’s training mission in Iraq must come from country’s government
    Amidst growing tension over the latest developments in the Middle East,
    following the killing of Iran’s military leader Qassem Soleimani in Iraq,
    the Czech foreign minister has joined calls for a level-headed approach to
    the crisis, warning that a further escalation of tension will not only
    destabilize the region, but put at risk the progress made in the war on
    terror.
    4 min
  • ‘The fat lady sings’: Prague’s State Opera marks restoration to former glory with gala concert
    The Prague State Opera reopened on Sunday evening in grand style following
    a major reconstruction that took nearly three years and cost over a billion
    crowns. The gala performance took place exactly 132 years after the venue
    opened. To better celebrate the opera house’s history, Sunday’s
    all-star programme also included a multimedia installation staged by a
    prominent filmmaker and narrated by a famous writer.
    5 min
  • Director Michal Hogenauer on A Certain Kind of Silence, a “cult” film with a difference
    One of the most compelling and stylish Czech films of 2019 was A Certain
    Kind of Silence, the feature debut from Michal Hogenauer. The largely
    English-language work depicts a Czech girl who becomes an au pair in an
    unnamed Northern European state only to discover her host family are
    members of a sinister sect. When we spoke, the conversation took in the
    challenges of shooting abroad and the ways in which directors can pander to
    festival programmers. But I first asked Hogenauer about the inspiration for
    the story in A Certain Kind of Silence.
    14 min
  • 1945-1948: From liberation to Stalinism
    In this programme, the eighth in our series mapping this country’s
    history through the radio archives, we start with the dramatic events of
    the last days of the war in Prague. The radio played a major role in the
    Prague Uprising, and through the archives we can map how the city liberated
    itself from the German occupiers. In the two years that follow, the radio
    archives give us a picture of a Czechoslovakia returning to some kind of
    normality, but in February 1948 everything changes. We tell the story as it
    was heard on the airwaves.
    30 min
  • Most Czechs think modern history being reinterpreted falsely, survey shows
    More than half of Czechs believe that Czech modern history is being falsely
    reinterpreted and over 60 percent have a problem with constructing new
    memorials that change the accepted view on history, according to a fresh
    MEDIAN poll conducted exclusively for Czech Radio. The news comes in the
    wake of controversy surrounding the suggested transfer of a memorial to
    Soviet marshal Ivan Konev and the construction of another to the
    controversial Vlasov troops who helped liberate Prague.
    4 min
  • SEFO: Olomouc’s long-awaited post-war Central European art museum
    Plans to build a futuristic museum in Olomouc showcasing some 200,000
    post-war artworks from across Central Europe have been on hold for over a
    decade, plagued by land disputes, funding issues and political intrigue.
    But with a new culture minister and museum director in place, hopes are
    high the ambitious project will finally take off this year.
    4 min
  • In New Year’s pep talk, Czech PM tells nation to look to the future with optimism
    In his first ever New Year’s address to the nation, Prime Minister Andrej
    Babiš told Czechs they had reason to celebrate since they were currently
    experiencing one of the happiest and most successful periods in the
    country’s modern history and had no reason to fear the future. He said
    his long-term investment plan had the potential to turn the Czech Republic
    into a country like Switzerland.
    4 min
  • Ex-central bank chief: Czechia had a good 2019 but needs to build infrastructure, housing
    The Czech economy grew at a healthy pace, the country’s unemployment rate
    is at the lowest in decades, wage growth remained solid and inflation
    stayed under control. By most measures, 2019 was a good year for the
    country, former central bank governor Miroslav Singer says. But he cautions
    that while the Czech Republic has caught with some Western European
    countries in purchasing power, it has neglected investment in
    infrastructure for the long haul.
    4 min

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