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This week, Prague is hosting the fourth international Mene Tekel festival
which highlights the crimes of communism and presents the testimonies of
those persecuted by totalitarian regimes. On Thursday, the festival is
screening a short Albanian documentary called Prison Nation, which
describes one of Europe’s most vicious communist regimes. Radio Prague
met with Tomor Aliko, a former Albanian political prisoner, whose powerful
testimony is featured in the film. More
Current AffairsCentral European leaders call on EU to keep momentum of enlargement
Central European leaders have issued a new call expressing support to those
countries waiting to join the European Union, appealing to the EU to keep
the momentum of enlargement to southern and eastern Europe. The call came
at the end of a meeting of the Central European Initiative in the Slovak
spa town of Piestany.
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Current AffairsCzech-financed school opens in Kosovo
Reports coming from Kosovo are usually quite disconcerting. Too often we hear about acts of pointless violence and expressions of nationalistic hatred. But this story is different. The Czech branch of the international Adventist Relief Agency ADRA has just opened a new school in the impoverished Northern Kosovo municipality of Ballovc, a small ethnic Albanian town twenty kilometres north of Prishtina, and just a stone's throw from Kosovo's troubled border with Southern Serbia. Our man in Prishtina, , sent us the following despatch. More
