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Margaret Thatcher and a right of centre politician. He set up the exile
publishing house Rozmluvy (Debate) in England in 1980, before later
running the prestigious Academia publishing house in Prague. When he
visited Radio Prague the other day, I asked Alexandr Tomsky to tell us a
little bit about his background.
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where freedom of speech ends, and individual privacy begins. Politicians
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Current AffairsFormer finance minister sentenced to five years for embezzlement
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Current AffairsNotorious "Spartakiada killer" released after almost two decades
One of the Czech Republic's most notorious murderers, the man dubbed the
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to outpatient. Mr Straka's release 19 years after his grisly crimes has
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The writer Jan Stavinoha was born in Prague in May 1945, a couple of weeks
after the Soviet Red Army freed the Czechoslovak capital from Nazi
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as oppressors. Stavinoha, then a 23-year-old student of classical music,
forged paperwork saying he was a "reliable person" worthy of a
passport — and fled to the West. Today, nearly 40 years later,
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