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WEBOctober 4, 2014: Opening of Troja Bridge, an architectural landmark that came at a high price. Prague's Troja Bridge, considered one of Czechia's most beautiful contemporary structures, has been serving pedestrians, cyclists, trams, and cars already for a decade.
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 ...
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WEB10/09/2024. The UN General Assembly has once again elected Czechia to be a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which is tasked with monitoring the human rights situation in all 193 member states of the United Nations. The country’s new term on the Council for the period 2025-2027 was approved by a majority of 166 votes.
Group sex getting into full “swing” - Radio Prague International
WEBMay 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 ...
Rising opera star Patricia Burda Janečková succumbs to cancer at 25
WEBOct 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 ...
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WEBThe most expensive housing is traditionally in Prague, where between April and June an average apartment cost CZK 132,000 per square meter, up 15 percent year-on-year. The cheapest apartments are available in the Ústí nad Labem region where they sell for CZK 34,900 per square metre on average. Author: Daniela Lazarová.
Pop singer Helena Vondráčková still going strong
WEBHelena Vondráčková, one of the Czech Republic’s biggest pop stars, will turn 75 next week. She can look back on a career spanning five decades and boast of being the country’s best-selling singer with over a million albums under her belt. Vondráčková first stood in the spotlight in 1964 when at the age of 17 she won a national talent ...
March 15, 1939 – The day Czechoslovakia ceased to exist
WEBMar 15, 2019 · Eighty years ago today, on March 15 1939, Hitler gave Czechoslovak President Emil Hácha a stark choice: accept becoming a protectorate or face destruction. After Hácha reluctantly agreed to give up his country’s independence the German army started moving in. It was the beginning of six long years of occupation.
Czechs and Germans in 1930s Czechoslovakia: a complex picture
WEBNov 9, 2019 · Czechs and Germans in 1930s Czechoslovakia: a complex picture. Length of audio 29:47. Sudeten Germans in 1938, photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-58507-003 / CC-BY-SA 3.0. The Czech Radio archives give us a rich and nuanced picture of the months leading up to the Munich Agreement of September 1938 that resulted in Nazi Germany annexing huge areas of ...
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 ...