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Press ReviewPress Review
A wide variety of stories jostle for attention on Monday's front pages.
There is coverage of tragedies at home and abroad: a deadly fire at a
disco in east Moravia that killed a seventeen year old girl and injured 61
young people, the train collision in Switzerland in which a young Czech
woman lost her life and Sunday's rocket attacks on the al Rashid Hotel in
Baghdad, in which at least one Czech national is reported injured.
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Current AffairsHow different are Czechs and Slovaks?
What are the Czech and Slovak nations like ten years after the breakup of
Czechoslovakia? The differences and similarities between them are revealed
in a study released last week by the Median research company.
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Current AffairsReflections on the split of Czechoslovakia, ten years on
With just a few days to go now till the tenth anniversary of the split of
Czechoslovakia in 1993, many people in both countries have been reflecting
on just what brought about the demise of the federal republic the two
nations had shared since its foundation in 1918.
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Current AffairsA closer look at the division of Czechoslovakia
This week we take a look at some more reasons for the demise of the
Czechoslovak state. We examine in more detail some of the specifics which
led to the Velvet Divorce almost 10 years ago:
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Business NewsBusiness News
Bill on 2003 State Budget Deficit Passed. Finance Minister Details Budget Reform Plan. Public Sector Salaries To Rise In New Year. Two Japanese companies to build manufacturing plant in Plzen. Seven former IPB bank executives charged with abuse of confidence. European Union Will Protect Budejovice Beer Designations. Retail revenue growth slows down in October. Czech and Slovak economies before and after the dissolution of the common.
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SpotlightSpotlight - Slovaks in the Czech Republic
Ten years after the split of Czechoslovakia, there are an estimated half a
million Slovaks here in the Czech Republic. To find out just why so many
Slovaks choose to live, study and work in the Czech Republic, I first
spoke to Marek Vozar, who is from Kosice and studies at the Prague School
of Economics.
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Current Affairs The demise of Czechoslovakia: A political history
As the tenth anniversary of the creation of separate Czech and Slovak
republics approaches, Radio Prague will be taking a look at just how the
state of Czechoslovakia ceased to exist. Today we will take a look at the
history of Czechoslovakia and the national aspirations of the Czech and
Slovak nations within it.
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