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Svatý Valentýn comes to Prague, fills expat paper's space
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 13th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Habits and customs
• History
• Holidays
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
The Prague Daily Monitor makes a 'desperate-to-fill-space-on-the-page' connection between the increasing popularity of the previously un read more »
EU Skeptic Ideologue Praises 'Courageous' Czechs in a Newspaper that Once Supported Hitler's Annexation
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 8th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• History
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• National identity
• News
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
Prominent UK right-winger, Peter Hitchens lays out the involved history of the Czech land in a typically tendentiously der read more »
Death of former child star, a time to reminisce
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 6th, 2009
The death of Czech actress Dana Vávrová reminded of what for many people of my generation was the golden a read more »
Lost in translation: Prudish Washington Post journalist mistranslates spa, has time of her life in Karlovy Vary
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: February 7th, 2009
Categories: About Czechs and Czech Republic
• Environment
• Habits and customs
• Health
• History
• Holidays
• International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• Language
• Tourism
A slender blonde sitting next to me on a bench in Karlovy Vary's Spa III got up, tossed off the white read more »
Most Czechs feel EU alegiance
Author: Dominik Lukeš Posted: January 28th, 2009
Categories: International perspectives: Czechs and the world
• National identity
• Numbers, statistics, surveys and polls
It appears that most Czechs feel good about the EU membership - even half the communists - as the Czech six-month EU presidency gets under way. read more »
