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  • Czech culture minister tells China it is damaging bilateral ties
    Czech Culture Minister Lubomír Zaorálek has brought out into the open a
    deepening feud between the mayor of Prague and Beijing, which has resulted
    in the cancellation of several cultural events involving Prague ensembles
    in China. In the sharpest rebuke yet, Minister Zaorálek told the Chinese
    ambassador there would be no cultural exchange if Beijing
    continued with this practice.
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  • Poll suggests Communists would not get into lower house for first time
    For the first time in its history the Communist Party of Bohemia and
    Moravia has polled below the minimum 5 percent threshold necessary to get
    into the Chamber of Deputies. While some commentators have called this a
    sign that they are headed for the dustbin of history, party chairman
    Vojtěch Filip says that the survey, conducted by the Kantar agency in
    August, is unreliable. I asked political commentator Jiří Pehe what he
    makes of the poll.
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  • Jaroslav Valůch: Disinformation is intensifying conflict in Czech society, communities and families
    Older people are the most vulnerable and targeted group in the Czech
    Republic when it comes to online disinformation, says Jaroslav Valůch. He
    is the head of the media education programme at Transitions Online, which
    runs media literacy courses around the country in cooperation with Elpida,
    a pro-seniors organisation. When Valůch visited our studios the
    conversation took in the specific kinds of fake news older Czechs
    encounter, how disinformation is poisoning intergenerational relations –
    and much more besides.
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  • Government’s commissioner for expats on the need to look beyond Czech borders and connect with our expat communities abroad
    According to the Czech Foreign Ministry there are now more than two million
    Czechs living abroad. The people making up the country’s expat
    communities in different parts of the world include those who fled the
    communist regime in several waves during the 20th century or those who
    escaped the Nazi threat. Some married abroad or used the opportunity to
    live and work abroad with the return of democracy close to 30 years ago. I
    spoke to the government’s special commissioner for expats Jiří Krátký
    about the process of renewing broken ties after 1989, the concerns of Czech
    expats today and how the profile of Czech expats has changed in the past 30
    years.
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  • Czech trolls tend to be individuals who act on a voluntary basis, says journalist who analysed scene
    Just as in many other countries in the world the Czech online scene is
    filled with hateful comments and disinformation posing as news. The authors
    of this material are commonly referred to as “trolls” and their
    influence is increasingly seen as dangerous and divisive, potentially
    working on behalf of foreign actors. While this may be true in some cases
    it seems that the majority of the Czech troll scene is actually made up of
    individuals who do so voluntarily.
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  • The Czechoslovak occultist plot to kill Hitler by magic
    It seems that it was not only border fortifications and an alliance with
    France that were facing Adolf Hitler’s plan to crush Czechoslovakia
    during the 1938 Sudetenland Crisis. Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš
    was also approached by a group of occultists, who offered to kill the
    Fuhrer by magic.
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