One of the main events at this year’s Dvořák Prague Festival was
without question Monday’s opening concert of Antonín Dvořák’s
Symphony No. 2 and the composer’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, with
world-renowned American cellist Yo-Yo Ma. He first performed with the
Police have charged ten people with criminal negligence over the collapse
of a bridge in Vilémov in the central Vysočina region last year which
left four people dead. The bridge collapsed last September, burying six
One of the main events at this year’s Dvořák Prague Festival was
without question Monday’s opening concert of Antonín Dvořák’s
Symphony No. 2 and the composer’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, with
world-renowned American cellist Yo Yo Ma. He first performed with the
One of the main events at this year’s Dvořák Prague Festival was
without question Monday’s opening concert of Antonín Dvořák’s
Symphony No. 2 and the composer’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, with
When setting the table for Christmas dinner, Slovaks traditionally put one extra plate on the table for an unexpected guest in need. This hospitality, however, has not been extended to migrants seeking refuge in central Europe from war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.
Around two dozen people have attended a ceremony in Prague commemorating
Ryszard Siwiec’s self-immolation in protest at Poland’s involvement in
the occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. Siwiec died on September
The military conflicts and political instability driving hundreds of thousands of refugees into Europe were triggered largely by U.S. and Western military interventions for regime change - specifically in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria .
On September 11, 1989, the Hungarian socialist government, still under Soviet control, opened its border with Austria, allowing thousands of Hungarians and other Eastern Europeans to cross the famous Iron Curtain into the West.
Chinese investor FLAMEshoes opened a new plant on Tuesday that produces leisure and beach shoes made of EVA in the village of Kruzlov in eastern Slovakia.
