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Current AffairsFirst Chinese cultural centre in Czech Republic opens in Olomouc
As China's economy goes from strength to strength, the country is also
making great efforts to promote its language and culture across the world.
In just three years, China has opened branches of its Confucius Institute
in over 70 countries around the world. The first Confucius Institute in the
Czech Republic was opened on Wednesday at Palacky University in Olomouc. I
spoke to the head of the centre David Uher and started by asking him
whether it was the university's own initiative or whether it was the
Chinese who approached them.
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Among the stories in Magazine this week: a Moravian man visits five
Slavkovs in three days on a wooden, pedal-less precursor to the bicycle; a
museum dedicated to a film character who never was draws Czechs and Slovaks
but confuses foreign visitors; the country's most famous bus is saved from
the scrapheap; and an unusual hobby - renovating an old military fortress.
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Current AffairsCommentator: Czech NATO accession was possible under Yeltsin
On Monday, the news was announced that former Russian President Boris
Yeltsin had died of heart failure aged 76. Throughout the world, Boris
Yeltsin will be remembered as the man who dismantled the Soviet Union and
led Russia in its first chaotic years of independence. The 1990s were also
the first years of renewed democratic rule in this country, which had been
a Soviet satellite for many years. Radio Prague spoke to Oldrich Bures, a
lecturer at Palacky University in Olomouc, about the role of Boris Yeltsin
in the formation of post-Soviet Czech-Russian relations.
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Current AffairsGovernment approves repatriation of remainder of Czech community from Kazakhstan
Almost two hundred members of the Czech community in Kazakhstan will now be
able to return to their homeland. The government this week approved a
programme which will involve the repatriation of 170 Kazakhstani Czechs.
As part of a similar scheme, several hundred Czechs moved back from
Kazakhstan in the 1990s. The Czechs first started settling in Kazakhstan
in the mid-19th century. When the current repatriation programme concludes
there will be no Czechs left in Kazakhstan.
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