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ArtsExhibition introduces Czech-Americans to Czechs in Prague
From September 25 to October 5, Prague hosted the Week of Czechs Living
Abroad - a large event held every two years, bringing together Czechs
living abroad to talk about their relations with the Czech Republic today.
This year saw representatives of organisations and societies from over
thirty-five countries flock to the Czech capital. According to foreign
ministry estimates, there are currently some 2.5 million people living
abroad around the world, who claim their Czech origin. Out of these about
1.7 million live in the United States. The ministry's International
Coordination Committee of Czechs Living Abroad, which organised the event,
therefore decided to hold an accompanying exhibition at the Prague city
Museum called Czechs in America, focusing on the history of Czech-US
relations. Dita Asiedu spoke to Ivan Dubovicky, the Secretary General of
the International Coordination Committee of Czechs Living Abroad, to find
out more:
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Talking PointCzechs abroad call for change in citizenship law
Last week saw one of the biggest gatherings of Czechs abroad in Prague.
Organised by Charles University, with the support of the City of Prague
and the Foreign Ministry, hundreds of Czechs who have migrated to other
countries were invited to meet and discuss current relations with their
country of origin. It was a full week of exhibitions, seminars, lunches,
and discussion forums all concentrating on topics involving Czechs abroad
- from light issues such as architecture and film, to more complicated
topics like the restitution of property and citizenship. It is the latter
that triggered much heated debate as many of those who left Communist
Czechoslovakia are still not able to acquire back their Czech citizenship
- over thirteen years after the fall of the communists.
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Current AffairsCzech Dialogue puts together Czechs at home and abroad
Are you a Czech expat who is missing the chance to use your mother tongue?
Or maybe you're a second generation Czech who would like to keep in touch
with events in the homeland of your ancestors, but you think your Czech is
not good enough? Are you interested in Czech history, folklore and humour?
Well, there is a chance for all of you - it's called Czech Dialogue and
it's a bilingual magazine bringing together Czechs at home and abroad.
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One on OneMartina Radova - keeping Brisbane's Czechs up-to-date with events back home
In this week's One on One, David Vaughan speaks to Martina Radova, a Czech
woman who fled Communist Czechoslovakia in 1949 to start a new life
abroad. After saying goodbye to her native Susice, she finally settled in
the Australian city of Brisbane, where she's lived for the past 54 years.
Now a housewife, Martina is actively involved in the local Czech community
and even broadcasts - in Czech - on a local radio station.
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One on OneVladimir Bejval - from Czechoslovak child actor to Calfiornia cowboy
Vladimir Bejval is a man with an amazing CV. Child actor in Czechoslovakia,
cowboy in the United States, tool maker, bodyguard and bounty hunter - Mr
Bejval has been all of those things. As a teenager he appeared in the
famous 1955 film Cesta do praveku, called in English Journey to Prehistory
or Journey to the Beginning of Time. Almost half a century later, Vladimir
Bejval is still proud of the film.
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Current AffairsFormer Czech ex-pats of Ukraine reassimilating into Bohemia
In the second half of the 19th century, many Czechs moved east and settled in Ukraine. They had a reputation as good farmers and the Russian Czar attracted them to the country with the offer of cheap land. More than a century later, exactly ten years ago, in April 1991, descendants of these settlers, many of whom had never lost their links with Czech culture and the Czech language, began to return to the land of their forebears. The Czechoslovak government agreed to offer them social benefits and citizenship. takes a look at how this almost forgotten Czech minority has fared in the last ten years.
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