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ArtsFree music festival brings party to Vltava’s islands as Czech EU presidency winds down
Tens of bands and dozens of djs performed around Prague on Thursday evening
to open this year’s United Islands Festival. The event, which is in its
fifth year, is promising over 150 hours of free music to those who find
themselves down by the banks of the Vltava River between Thursday evening
and Saturday night. This year, the festival ties in with the Czech
Republic’s EU presidency, which comes to an end in less than two weeks.
David Gaydečka is the event’s organizer:
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Current AffairsPop singer to fight allegation he collaborated with StB
Well-known pop singer Vaclav Neckar, (who many will remember as the
ill-fated 'Milos' in the Czech film Closely Watched Trains), has indicated
he intends to fight an allegation he collaborated with the StB, communist
Czechoslovakia's secret police. Earlier this week the Czech newspaper
Lidove Noviny reported it had uncovered original documents allegedly
revealing that Mr Neckar met sixteen times with an StB agent over a period
of around nine years (from 1978 to 1987). According to Lidove Noviny, Mr
Neckar was listed as an StB "confidant", expected to report on
fellow colleagues including singer and close friend Marta Kubisova.
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