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WEBEconomist: rigidity and outdated policies stifle Czechia's labor market. Labor market conditions in Czechia have deteriorated for the third year and are now the tenth worst in the EU, primarily due to low flexibility and gender pay disparities.
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WEB09/21/2024. Czech Basketball Player of the Century Milena Jindrová has died at the age of 80. The Sokol Prague basketball club, which Jindrová founded, announced her death on Instagram on Friday evening. The seven-time World and European Championship medalist was a pillar of the national basketball team from 1963 to 1976.
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WEBRadio Brno: Czech Radio celebrates 100 years of broadcasting in Moravia. September 1, 1924, saw the launch of Radio Brno – the first radio station to launch broadcasts outside of Prague. Anniversary of the Week.
Anniversary of Communist Takeover in February 1948
WEB02/26/2002. February 1948 in Prague. Almost three years after the end of World War 2, on the 25th of February 1948, the Communist Party seized power in Czechoslovakia. What followed was forty years of hard-line authoritarian rule and the Czechoslovak calendar remembered the date as "Victorious February". Pavla Horakova looks back at the day ...
Bedřich Smetana’s Vltava marks 145 years since its premiere
WEBApr 5, 2020 · Vltava in Prague, photo: Ondřej Tomšů. The first public performance of Vltava, one of the best known pieces by Bedřich Smetana, took place 145 years ago today. The famous composition, also known by its English title The Moldau, is part of a cycle of six symphonic poems, entitled Má Vlast or My Country. …
Czech Photo Gallery launches Best of the Nude
WEBApr 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 ...
Klement Gottwald - Radio Prague International
WEBMar 22, 2000 · Klement Gottwald is a controversial figure in Czech history. During the five years he was president, two hundred and thirty death sentences were handed out, and almost two hundred thousand people were sent to prison and forced labour camps. His name is now indelibly linked with one of Czechoslovakia's …
Josef Gočár: pioneer of Czech Cubist, Rondocubist architecture, …
WEBMar 13, 2020 · This Friday marks 140 years since the birth of the pioneering Czech architect and designer Josef Gočár. His legacy includes iconic works in a range of styles, most famously The House of the Black Madonna, in a Cubist tradition inspired by Picasso, and the “national” Rondocubist Legiobanka, born of independent Czechoslovakia.
Czech Christmas traditions explained, from Ježíšek to the Golden …
WEBDec 24, 2018 · Carp and the Golden Pig. Photo: archive of Czech Radio. For new arrivals to the Czech Republic, the emphasis on Christmas Eve, the traditional fare served on that day – chiefly carp and potato salad – and the role of the Baby Jesus are typically the most surprising elements of how the holiday is observed locally.
The Czech Books You Must Read | Radio Prague International
WEBJan 29, 2020 · Božena Němcová’s coming of age novel Babička (The Grandmother) is a classic well known to all Czechs and has a permanent presence in the school curriculum as well as being adapted for film. The fact that it has been translated into many foreign languages therefore did not come as much of a surprise. …
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