More than 60,000 foreign students studied at Czech universities last year
– a record high. Most full-time diploma students are from neighbouring
Slovakia, followed by ex-Soviet states such as Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan
The former political regime in Czechoslovakia deemed much of Western
culture “damaging” and “ideologically subversive”, but authorities
struggled in particular to control the flood of foreign rock ’n’ roll
The National Museum opened its new memorial to Jan Palach, the student who
protested the passivity of his countrymen following the Soviet-led invasion
of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by self-immolation, in Všetaty on Wednesday. The
The former president of Poland and one of the founders of the 1980s Polish
labour union movement known as “Solidarity”, Lech Wałęsa, will be one
of the speakers at this year’s Forum 2000 conference in Prague, the Czech
More than 60,000 foreign students studied at Czech universities last year
– a record high. Most full-time diploma students are from neighbouring
Slovakia, followed by ex-Soviet states such as Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan
