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  • Řeporyje to build memorial honouring “Vlasov” troops who helped in liberation of Prague
    The local council of Prague’s western Řeporyje district has unanimously
    voted in favour of building a memorial to the Russian Liberation Army
    troops that helped fight Nazi forces during the Prague Uprising in May
    1945. The vote was preceded by a heated confrontation between the
    district’s mayor and representatives of the Russian Federation about the
    historical legacy of the troops often referred to in Czech as
    “Vlasovci”.
    5 min
  • Greenpeace activists urge PM Babiš to sign carbon neutrality agreement
    As the European Commission prepares to outline its Green Deal on Wednesday,
    the Czech branch of Greenpeace has staged a protest in Prague against Prime
    Minister Andrej Babiš who looks like he might be the only European leader
    to block the EU’s decision to become carbon neutral by 2050. On Monday
    evening, Greenpeace activists symbolically set the government building on
    fire, screening images of flames on its façade.
    4 min
  • Challenging “elites” helps make Klaus Jr. party lower house contenders
    A new Kantar CZ opinion poll suggests the Tricolour party of Václav Klaus
    Jr. would take 6.5 percent of the vote in a general election. It is the
    first time such a survey has put the conservative grouping, which was
    launched in June, above the 5 percent threshold needed to enter the Chamber
    of Deputies. I asked political scientist Petr Just which other parties were
    likely to be losing voters to Tricolour.
    4 min
  • War and Occupation: A black crow spreads its wings over Prague
    The Czech Radio archives include many recordings from the time of World War
    II. They come from both sides: propaganda from within occupied Bohemia and
    Moravia aimed at intimidating the population and bullying them into
    supporting the Reich, but also recordings from abroad. Both the BBC and the
    government in exile in London were broadcasting to occupied Europe in
    Czech, at the same time informing the wider world about the fate of
    Czechoslovakia in English. Some of the extracts we’ll be hearing have
    become well known, but our archives also hold many surprises, rare
    recordings that give us unexpected insights into life during wartime.
    29 min
  • Czech PM suffers a week of heavy blows as he is found in conflict of interest and criminal proceedings against him are restarted
    It has not been a good week for the Czech prime minister. Not only has a
    European Commission found Andrej Babiš to be in a conflict of interest,
    demanding the Czech state return the money paid to the Agrofert
    conglomerate he founded, but criminal proceedings have been restarted
    against him in a subsidy fraud case that has dragged on for years. Mr
    Babiš’s coalition partners are thus far standing by him, but another
    mass anti-government demonstration is being called for next week.
    5 min
  • One in four cars on Czech roads exceed emissions limits
    Nearly one in four vehicles on Czech roads exceeds permitted emissions
    limits, an inspection carried out by the ministries of transport and
    environment this summer suggest. The alarming figures, presented this week,
    come nearly a year after the introduction of stricter rules in emissions
    testing for vehicles.
    4 min

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