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  • Czech expert helps Georgia balance landscape protection and tourism
    As an expert on protected landscape management, Michal Hošek is used to
    working in breathtakingly beautiful environments. However when he was sent
    to northern Georgia in 2012 he had no idea of the ties that would bind him
    to its pristine nature and warmhearted people. He recently visited Radio
    Prague’s studio to talk about his work in Georgia, his love for the
    country and the challenges of developing a tourist infrastructure in a
    country still largely undiscovered.
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  • Environment Ministry warns highly toxic rodenticide will “harm all living things“
    The Czech Environment Ministry is up in arms over a decision by the Central
    Institute for Supervision and Testing in Agriculture allowing farmers to
    use a highly toxic rat poison in fields, orchards, meadows and vineyards.
    They claim it will “harm all living things in the vicinity”, a warning
    that has made the agriculture minister break off his holiday and come back
    to Prague for emergency talks.
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  • Skywalk over the Vltava to open Prague’s Letní Letná festival
    The annual Letní Letná festival returns to Prague next week with some of
    the world’s best contemporary circus acts, from puppet shows and cabaret
    to breath-taking acrobatic performances. The 16th edition of the event
    kicks off on Wednesday night with a sky walk over the Vltava. I asked to
    Letní Letná manager Ivana Pěkná to tell me more about the opening
    night.
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  • Co-founder of New York property site Igluu Martin Mucha on real estate, entrepreneurship and helping young Czechs in America
    Despite being in his early 30s, Martin Mucha is already a successful Czech
    businessman in New York. Many locals may know Igluu, the real estate
    website he co-founded which claims to be the largest source of verified
    home listings in the Big Apple. Apart from looking into ways of expanding
    and innovating the company, Mr. Mucha also plays an active role among
    America’s Czech community. I recently had the chance to catch up with him
    and began by asking when he first decided to be an entrepreneur.
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  • EDISON filmhub offers viewers more than just top-notch films
    EDISON Filmhub is a new boutique cinema in the heart of Prague. It exhibits
    top festival films, premiers, hosts debates, discussions and talks along
    with a modern café. The former Edison electric company venue, a
    functionalist building protected by UNESCO, opened its doors to the public
    on June 1st. I spoke to the director of Film Europe Media Company, Ivan
    Hronec, about what makes EDISON Filmhub so unique and how it aims to draw
    visitors to the cinema in the age of Netflix and other streaming services.
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  • Czech National Library scrambles to save thousands of books at risk of decay
    Over 90 percent of books in the Czech National Library printed after the
    year 1800 are threatened with destruction caused by acid, which has been
    forming in the paper over the years. The library has now taken a major step
    to prevent the valuable volumes from turning to dust, sending several
    thousand of them to Germany to undergo special chemical treatment, called
    de-acidification.
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  • Study of Chinese CVs points at “deep and lasting relationship” between Huawei employees and the state
    In July, a paper was published by Dr. Christopher Balding from the
    Fulbright University in Vietnam, which looked into the link between Huawei
    Technologies' employees and the Chinese intelligence and military
    establishment by analysing a unique dataset of CVs from unsecured Chinese
    databases and websites run by recruitment platforms leaked last year. In an
    interview with Czech Radio published on Wednesday, he said that Huawei
    employees appear to act on behalf of the Chinese interior ministry and army
    in their work for Huawei.
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  • Czechs blaze barrier-free trails in the spectacular Krkonoše Mountains
    Krkonoše is home to the highest mountains in the Czech Republic, with
    majestic peaks protruding above the alpine tree line and a unique mosaic of
    ecosystems in valleys formed in the ancient glacial past. Dozens of
    mountain trails and alpine meadows paths in the Krkonoše or Giant
    Mountains are now accessible also for handicapped nature-lovers and
    families with prams.
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  • ‘Don’t give up!’: Alice Ždrale, head of the Czech and Slovak School of Pittsburgh, on language and expatriate life
    Just over 100 years ago, the American steel town of Pittsburgh was host to
    a memorandum of understanding between the nation’s Czech and Slovak
    immigrant communities to create an independent republic following the
    demise of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today, the city is home to one of
    America’s largest Slovak communities, a modest Czech one, and a school
    that unites expatriates of both. Alice Ždrale, head of the Czech and
    Slovak School of Pittsburgh, on a working trip back to her native Prague,
    shares the story of the informal school, one of the newest among the
    diaspora in North America.
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