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2010-08-10
Back to the future
http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts-and-culture/featured/6157188/back-to-the-future.thtml
Article by Charles Moore on how to renew and maintain life in the deserted villages of rural Romania http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts-and-culture/featured/6157188/back- ...
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2010-07-20
In Memoriam
http://www.radio.cz/cz/clanek/129852
It was with sorrow that we learnt of the death of Sir Charles Mackerras at the age of 84 on 14 July 2010. Sir Charles, who studied under the Czech conductor Vaclav Tal ...
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2010-06-02
Budget-Cutting Coalition Government Seen in Czech Republic
http://blogs.wsj.com/new-europe/2010/05/30/budget-cutting-coalition-governme nt-seen-in-czech-republic/#
Czech general elections over the weekend gave a 118-seat majority in the country’s 200-seat lower house of Parliament to a group of three center-right parties, and after ...
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2010-06-02
Grigory Pasko: Exclusive Interview with Yuri Schmidt
http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2007/02/grigory_pasko_interview_with_y.htm
Exclusive interview with Yuri Schmidt in Chita By Grigory Pasko, journalist It is already known that investigators from the procuracy-general of Russia have filed f ...
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2010-06-02
Paroubek resigns as ČSSD chairman
http://praguemonitor.com/2010/05/31/paroubek-resigns-čssd-chairman
Prague, May 29 (CTK) - Jiří Paroubek has resigned as the Czech Social Democrat (CSSD) chairman after four years at the party's helm and he will prepare his departure with ...
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2010-06-02
Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/79209
Late 1943. The cold barracks of the Terezin ghetto stand against an autumn sky. Although deportations to the camp had come to a standstill earlier in the year, the overcr ...
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2010-06-02
New votes out old
http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/06/czech_elections_updated
This analysis from the the Prague-based lobbying firm Candole Partners gives a good summary of the Czech elections this weekend. CSSD’s performance was well below exp ...
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