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  There are many things in the world particularly suitable for biting, for example mothers’ ears, people’s fingers, shoelaces, carpets, telephone handsets, clothes pegs, but most of all the tip of a nose, which little Dášeňka is crazy about! And then off she goes!...

Designblok

Central Europe’s most famous design and fashion event is now in its 24th year. The programme is extremely rich, featuring numerous installations, fashion shows and lectures. Once again this year Designblok will offer a comprehensive presentation of the latest Czech and international contemporary design....

Russia is part of my life, but now I help Ukraine defend itself

Interview with Kateřina Haring, President of the Czech-Moravian Association of Women Entrepreneurs and founder of the European Defence Readiness Chamber   Speaking in this interview is a Czech businesswoman who knows Russia not by hearsay. Having moved to Moscow just after high school, following...

Energy preoccupies citizens and businesses

  “We realize that certain information is sensitive, but the news provided by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce is often insufficient and sometimes confusing. Businesses will be affected by this situation and must be able to react “. These are the words of...

From Pelikán to Havel: Craxi behind the iron curtain and the Czechoslovak dissidents

In early 1989, the socialist leader launched an international petition in favour of the release of the man who, a few months later, would become the hero of the Velvet Revolution After the repression of Prague Spring, many were purged from the structures of the...

Our book to remember the former Czech President Václav Havel ten years after his departure

“Václav Havel. A multi-voice portrait of the hero of the Velvet Revolution” by Amedeo Gasparini: 18 interviews by a Swiss-Italian student December 18th, 2021 will mark the tenth anniversary of the death of President Václav Havel, the hero of the Velvet Revolution; a significant...

Bardon: the magician of Opava who said no to Hitler

Clairvoyant, healer and expert in alternative medicine, František Bardon is known as one of the most important and mysterious esotericists of the 20th century He is said to have been able to find hidden objects, read people’s minds and diagnose their health just by...

Toyen, a surrealist revolution from Prague to Paris

The famous Czech painter who settled in the French capital in 1948 and made the ville lumière her second home A white kitchen chair, four teaspoons, and a few other bits and pieces. Poor objects scattered among abandoned drawings and paintings. It was the sad...

No night is so dark

The memory box that reminds us of the history of architect Rudolf Wels The story of one of the most prominent talents of Czech architecture between the two wars is brought nowadays in the spotlight by a box remained intact for forty years in...

Praga. Capitale segreta d’Europa

Franco Cardini wanted to dedicate his last work to Prague and the magic that this city has always had on writers from around the world. “The magical capital of old Europe is an extraordinary journey through time and space: it’s the city of the...