Pardubice Region

Atlantic Eye: Velvet Revolution redux

By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN UPI International Columnist CHICAGO, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- As I sit at the fundraising gala of the American Friends of the Czech Republic in Chicago, a letter from Boris Pankin, Gorbachev's last foreign...

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Czech schools two years after Strasbourg: What has changed?

Prague, 13.11.2009, 22:10, (ROMEA) - It was exactly two years ago today that James A. Goldston, Executive Director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, made the following statement: “Romani children will now have the same...

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Asymmetrische Fluss-Feldfluss-Fraktionierung - eine leistungsfähige Methode zur...

Die Kombination aus Feldflussfraktionierung und MALS kann als Routinemethode zur Polymeranalyse eingesetzt werden. Dabei liefert die AF4 zumindest der SEC ebenbürtige Trennergebnisse, im Falle von hochmolekularen und...

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Case of verbal assault on Romani children remains unsolved five months later

Prague, 3.11.2009, 08:08, (ROMEA) - In mid-June of this year, 30 Romani children were discussing the topic “There has been enough racism” as part of a debating competition organized by the Debate Club Association of the Czech...

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Litomysl Festival fills Smetana's birthplace with the best of opera and classical music

Smetana's Litomysl International Opera Festival is the largest open-air classical music festival in the Czech Republic. Eva Urbanova launches the traditional Smetana's Litomysl International Opera Festival on Friday; the...

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Tea revolution

For Aleš Juřina the memory of 17 November 1989 is associated with tea. In June of 1993 on Wenceslas Square, they opened Dobrá čajovna, becoming one of the first such institutions in the burgeoning nationwide tea culture....

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The Times cites unverified statement by Klaus on Lisbon treaty

London/Prague - Czech President Vaclav Klaus "has no intention of signing the Lisbon treaty, a move that might allow David Cameron time to hold a British referendum on Europe," the British daily The Times writes today, citing a...

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57-year-old jockey wins steeplechase race

Czech Republic trainer and jockey Josef Vana, 57, celebrates with Polish horse Tiumen after winning the 119th Czech Velka Pardubicka Steeplechase horse race in Pardubice, Czech Republic, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Petr...

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Czech customs officers seize forged handbags worth 100 million

Usti nad Orlici - Czech customs officers have seized 3600 counterfeited handbags of Gucci brand from China in Usti nad Orlici and they have estimated the damage caused to the brand owners at 100.8 million crowns, customs...

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Czech Shrovetide traditions to be nominated for UNESCO list

ČTK The unique Czech Shrovetide masks and traditions from the Hlinsko vicinity, east Bohemia, will be nominated for the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the Culture Ministry said on...

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