Just over 100 years ago, the American steel town of Pittsburgh was host to
a memorandum of understanding between the nation’s Czech and Slovak
immigrant communities to create an independent republic following the
The recently elected Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová is the most popular
foreign politician among Czechs, with over 70 percent of respondents giving
her a favourable rating, according to a poll carried out by the STEM agency
released on Wednesday.
For nearly ten years, the company Nanovo has been buying, renovating and
re-selling design items from Czechoslovakia’s Communist era, from home
décor to furniture. I visited the company’s warehouse in Prague’s