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Quasi-military organisations called the National Guards were established by
the far-right National Party on the 28th October, the anniversary of
independent Czechoslovakia. The move did not receive much attention in the
Czech Republic at first, although Slovakia's President Ivan Gasparovic was
quick to warn the Czech authorities of the danger of indifference.
Meanwhile, top Czech politicians have condemned the idea of National
Guards. More
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In Business News this week: the lower house approves the basic parameters
of the 2008 state budget, the Czech National Bank raises its inflation
forecast for next year and the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development blows the whistle on aid to the Czech Republic.
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Slovaks living in the Czech Republic are returning home in their droves, a
Czech artist has made it into the Guinness Book of Records for producing
the world's smallest book of portraits, and what animal does Prague's
mayor want
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Talking PointWhat it's like to be a Slovak in Prague
"A Slovak woman would like to talk to you." I have heard this
kind of sentence many times - when I've tried to set up an interview on
the phone, and have spoken in my native Slovak, which is similar enough to
Czech to be fully understandable. To be a Slovak in Prague is to be
labeled as different. There are occasions when Czechs mind their
"Slovak brothers", on the other hand they still love and miss
the Slovak language and think of Slovaks as their "closest
foreigners".
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Current AffairsIvan Gasparovic elected Slovak president in surprise vote
Voters in neighbouring Slovakia have chosen the country's new president. In
the second round of voting on Saturday, Slovakia's former parliament
chairman Ivan Gasparovic was elected as Slovak president. With 60 percent
of the vote, he beat his one-time close ally, controversial former prime
minister Vladimir Meciar. Earlier Pavla Horakova spoke to Rob Cameron who
had followed the election in Bratislava and she first asked him to tell us
more about the president-elect.
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