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The management of the Coronavirus and the conflict of interests are weighing on the leader of Ano, but the divisions of the opponents and the presidential support of Zeman are in his favor The false steps that characterized the management of the health crisis...

The date of the 2021 political elections has been set The elections for the renewal of the Chamber of Deputies, scheduled in the Czech Republic in 2021, will take place on 8 and 9 October, as usual on a Friday and Saturday. This was...

36 billion euros from the EU are coming to the Czech Republic The Czech Republic from the next multi-year budget of the European Union will have the chance to receive up to 36 billion euros (about 960 billion crowns). This was reported by the...

Gene Deitch, among the most important animators of all time, has died at the age of 95 in Prague, where he lived since 1959 They labeled him a madman; he preferred to describe himself as “the only free American to work in Prague for...

Meeting with the eclectic Italian composer and singer who has been living in the Bohemian city for several years What do the “Trains of Tozeur”, interpreted by Alice and Franco Battiato, have in common with the “machine of love and death” staged in 1987...

20 years ago The Holy Trinity Column of Olomouc was inscribed on the UNESCO List Exactly twenty years ago, on 2 December 2000, one of the most famous and significant monuments of Olomouc, the Baroque Holy Trinity Column, located in the main square of...

Printed by the H&H publishing house, and translated by Alice Flemrová and Tomáš Matras, the book “Poesie / Básně” by Pier Paolo Pasolini is a brand-new release, a collection of selected poems by the great Italian poet, writer, director and screenwriter who died in...

50 years ago The writer Johannes Urzidil died in Rome The writer and art historian Johannes Urzidil, was born in Prague on February 3, 1896, to a Czech-German father and a Jewish mother. In Prague, he studied at the German University, and then devoted...

Last year marked the seventieth anniversary of Akce K, the operation aimed at the illegal and violent mass liquidation of monasteries and Christian orders in a country that had just fallen into the abyss of totalitarianism Planned a year before its execution – in...

Paolo Ganz is a Venetian writer, musician and traveler who dedicated his book to Prague. Armed with a quill and a journal, he describes the city to us as he sees it, balanced on a line between past and present. To understand Prague, you...