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Czech visas to end for Russians, Belarusians with second citizenship
Czechia is set to cease issuing visas to Russians and Belarusians who also possess citizenship of other states. The country stopped granting visas to regular citizens of Russia and Belarus, except in humanitarian cases, soon after the former’s invasion of Ukraine last year. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to stop people from Russia…...
Why are so many Ukrainian children not attending school in Czechia?
A portion of the Ukrainian child refugee population in Czechia is missing out on formal education because there aren’t enough school places for them. Schools and kindergartens are already bursting at capacity, especially in the capital. Jana Frojdová is headmistress at an elementary school in the Prague 10 district. It has been forced to down…...
UK musicologist: “My parents were horrified when I went to Czechoslovakia, they thought I was a spy”
Although now in his 80s, Geoffrey Chew is still writing about Czech music. The British/South African musicologist devoted most of his career to the music of the Czech Lands and Slovakia as Emeritus Professor of Music at Royal Holloway University in London and as editor of articles on Czech and Slovak Music for the online…...
“Švejk is incredibly topical today”: Manuscript of classic shown in Prague
Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk is one of the most popular Czech books ever published. So it was a special occasion when the original manuscript of the classic novel was exhibited to the public for one day only on Tuesday by Prague’s Museum of Czech Literature. The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk…...
Jan Smigmator – Czech swing and jazz singer who is now coming to America
Jan Smigmator, one of Czechia’s most famous swing and jazz singers, is set to perform in New York’s Carnegie Hall on April 29. The 37-year-old musician, who also hosts his own show on Czech Radio, says that he hopes this could be an opportunity to break through in the United States. His performance in New…...
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