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A unique songbook marking the upcoming anniversary of the Velvet Revolution has just been released in Czechia. 03:17. Signal Festival returns to light up Prague for its eleventh year. Signal Festival, the annual festival of pioneering lightshows across Prague, begins its four-day programme on October 10th.
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10/16/2024. Actor, dubbing artist, and prominent gay rights activist Jiří Hromada has died at the age of 66. The news of his passing was confirmed on Tuesday by Ondřej Kepka, his successor as president of the Actors' Association. Hromada, who spent his final years in Prague's Na Františku Hospital, was for years a leader of the gay movement ...
Czech Photo Gallery launches Best of the Nude
Apr 26, 2013 · The Czech Photo Gallery at Prague’s Újezd this week launched the first in a series of “Best of” exhibitions beginning with the Nude. Curators for the opening show chose work by five well-known photographers, the late Taras Kuščynskyj, Jan Saudek, Robert Vano, Pavel Brunclík and Antonín Tesař. The nudes range from lyrical and ...
Group sex getting into full “swing” - Radio Prague International
May 21, 2011 · volume. Group sex getting into full “swing”. Length of audio14:46. Download. Share. Sex has been an emerging market in the Czech Republic for 20 years, with its every marketable facet constantly developing since 1989. The first wave was naturally prostitution and pornography, shortly after, sex shops. At the turn of the new century came the ...
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PM thanks nation for massive solidarity in flood crisis, promises support at all levels. As the flood waters slowly subside, Prime Minister Petr Fiala has outlined the government’s strategy in dealing with the damage wrought in many parts of the country. 03:39. Domestic affairs.
Rising opera star Patricia Burda Janečková succumbs to cancer at 25
Oct 8, 2023 · Soprano Patricia Burda Janečková was one of the bright lights of the opera world. Her young life and promising career were tragically cut short by cancer to which she succumbed at the age of 25. She died on October 1, 2023. Born in Germany to Slovak parents, Patricia Burda Janečková grew up in Ostrava, where she studied opera at the ...
Meet the Liberec-based English teacher whose videos are a global …
Length of audio 19:09. English teacher Steve Watts was born in Great Britain, but he is currently the Czech Republic’s most popular YouTuber. His education channel Steve and Maggie has over 12 million subscribers and his videos, translated into seven languages, including Spanish and Hindi, have altogether over two billion views.
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The voice of Czech jazz: Celebrating Ondřej Havelka’s seventieth birthday. Today’s Sunday Music Show showcases the music of jazz singer Ondřej Havelka, who turns seventy on October 10th. Havelka has performed with The Melody Makers since 1995. Culture.
Alexander Dubček – the smiling leader of the Prague Spring
Nov 27, 2021 · This Saturday marks the centenary of the birth of Alexander Dubček, one of the most charismatic leaders of 20th century Czechoslovakia who led the country during the Prague Spring. A Communist Party loyalist, Dubček is seen today largely as a tragic figure, who caved in to Soviet demands following the 1968 Invasion of Czechoslovakia.
The split of Czechoslovakia: context, reasons, and lessons for the ...
Jan 1, 2013 · JM: “I don’t share this view. Of course, Slovaks raised some requirements during each of the international crises. But on the other hand, Slovaks generally supported Czechoslovakia at those times – take for example the mobilization of 1938 when even leaders of the autonomistic Slovak People’s Party called for the …