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Ivan Jestřáb, the ambassador of the Czech Republic in Tbilisi, speaks about the European Neighbourhood Policies and of the current Russian ambitions, three years after the conflict in South Ossetia. “Don’t leave Georgia, don’t allow the country to feel isolated from the rest of...

The Czech Republic has just celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the withdrawal of the Red Army, which took place in the summer of 1991. But, it enough just look around, to perceive that this Country is experiencing a new Russian invasion. In those days,...

Economic relations between the Czech Republic and Russia are increasingly stronger, so much so that in 2010, trade between the two countries was 7.8 billion Euros, an increase of 29.5% compared to the previous year. Everything indicates that, this year already, trade relations between...

The two Countries come closer and move away from each other: on the one hand, Russian influence and Czech energy dependence, on the other, the negative experience of the past century. Like a prism, with more colours and shades, relations and sentiments between Prague...

Throughout the world, including Italy, we are witnessing the rediscovery of the great Prague journalist As they say: an adventurous life. Fascinating, in many ways, is the life of Egon Erwin Kisch Prague (1885 – 1948). The journalist who bore the same name as...

Nearly seventy years on from the Lidice massacre it was about time that a film was made to commemorate the tragedy which remains one of the most chilling episodes in this country’s history. The Nazi reprisal took place in 1942, after the assassination of...

Scveik in New York Invented by Jaroslav Hasek during the years of the First World War, the character of the good soldier Švejk, soon entered the collective imagination to become the symbol of a real way of being, whose peculiar features detach him from...

Sex trade in the Czech Republic: among houses of pleasure and exploitation, seedy tourism and crime. How much is the Czech tourist boom due to sex tourism? Prostitution in the Czech Republic is not illegal, but organized prostitution (such as brothels or other places...

Publishers, writers and ordinary readers are all angry at the government’s decision to increase VAT on publications. Even Vaclav Havel is among the 150,000 signers of the petition “god protests”. But there is also discontent among the politicians of the majority: “What a paradox:...

Three days of intensive work at the main Italian event, dedicated to the real estate sector – where we participated again this year with a stand – the only one dedicated exclusively to the Czech Republic and Slovakia markets, sponsored by the Municipality of...