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24-01-2001 | Olga Szantová

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Current AffairsTV crisis continues following aborted Falbr meeting

23-01-2001 | Vladimír Tax

The never-ending Czech Television saga continues - the chairman of the largest Czech Trade Union organisation, Richard Falbr, is not a happy man: a meeting between striking employees and the new management ended in failure on Monday - for the simple reason that one of the sides didn't turn up. takes a look at the latest developments in this bitter dispute.  More

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