In this Jan. 27, 2010, file photo, Iranian philosopher Dariush Shayegan gestures during his speech after he received the 2009 Global Dialogue Prize Award in Aarhus, Denmark.
In this Friday, March 16, 2018 file photo, people celebrate the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico and his government as a way out of the political crisis during a rally in Bratislava, Slovakia.
In this series we present 100 songs which have gone down in the history of
Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. They became widely popular, were
played during important time periods, and some even won the hit parade of
the year. We continue with the year 1972.
Police have confiscated a rare 1990 Czechoslovak postal stamp which was put
on the market after it emerged that it had been stolen during a stamp
exhibition in Tokyo twenty-five years ago. The stamp’s value is estimated
at around three and a half million crowns.
For three weeks, people in the Slovak capital of Bratislava left work on Friday, headed to the main square and jingled their keys in unison to demand a new government. This week, they got one.
It’s been described by one historian as one of the greatest finds about
the Czechoslovak communist era. Several kilometres of film and sound were
recently discovered at a factory and they cover the show trial of one of
In this series we present 100 songs which have gone down in the history of
Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. On Czech Radio’s web pages you can
find a poll, in which you can vote for the best hit from the past century.
The number of foreigners residing in the Czech Republic has risen to
493,400, the highest number in the country’s modern history, the Czech
Statistics Office reported on Thursday.
