Prague(matic) spring
2008. Time for Prague to do a spring clean, to free itself of the dusty control mechanisms of former times. Beer ‘exportmeister’, freshblooded cinema, the freedom of speech and a ‘Go West’ philosophy - the Czechs are pragmatic. Are appearances deceptive?
Photos: Prague Spring, forty years on
On 21 August Prague commemorated forty years of it’s famous democratic ‘spring’, which ended revolt in the capital this past century. The spontaneous protest caught the world by surprise, before it was reprimanded by the Soviet regime. Images
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Radar station for US anti-missile defence on Czech soil?
But it hadn’t banked on such a large opposition from two thirds of the population and such an angry reaction from its future neighbours. A return to the cold war?
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Drinking trademark Budweiser beer in Bohemia
Czech beer came to the world’s attention again in April after a century-old dispute with the US over the naming rights to its Budweiser beer was settled in a Luxembourg court
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Prague ‘Hyde Park’: dead speakers society
The Czech capital is banishing a young Brit’s project from the city centre after the first Speaker’s Corner in Europe outside of the UK became a hotspot for extremists
