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Writers were at the forefront of the Velvet Revolution. But when the dust
settled on the political changes they found a fast changing publishing
revolution underway that left some of them sidelined. We look at the
changes in the publishing and literary world over the last two decades. More
One on OneVáclav Havel’s decency gave him courage, says his former advisor Jiří Pehe
People in the Czech Republic and around the world hail the late
ex-president Václav Havel as a great European, a humanist and a man who
stood up to the communist regime, a decent and courageous man who led his
country to democracy. In this special edition of One on One, we talk to
political commentator Jiří Pehe who served as Václav Havel’s chief
political advisor in the late 1990s. More
Current AffairsNation mourns death of a hero
The death of Vaclav Havel stopped Czechs in their tracks on Sunday. A hush
fell over the country as thousands of people gathered to light candles and
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around the Czech Republic tolled in memory of the man who showed endless
courage in the face of oppression and who led his nation on the road to
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place for the previous four decades was dismantled. In spite of resistance
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Current AffairsFirst post-communist Czechoslovak foreign minister Jiří Dienstbier dies
Czech Senator Jiří Dienstbier, a leading figure of the Czech dissident
movement and the country’s first post-communist foreign minister died
over the weekend at the age of 73. A former dissident and journalist, Mr.
Dienstbier served on many committees and worked as a UN rapporteur on human
rights in the former Yugoslavia, but in people’s minds he will always be
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This week in Mailbox: The 21st anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, a
“Czech” week in Denmark, the Czech hard candy Hašlerky. Listeners
quoted: Ruth O'Connor, Hans Verner Lollike, Chun-Quan Meng. More
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