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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.  More

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On Monday, the government announced it was planning to streamline legislation to help make the country's fight against corruption more effective. Analysis suggests corruption remains a major problem, especially in the case of public tenders, which - critics contend - are often not transparent enough and are all too open to bribes. Although according to some watchdog groups, the situation improved slightly last year many corruption cases ultimately go uncovered or are never fully resolved.  More

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Current AffairsNewly uncovered microfiche confirms StB spied on Vaclav Klaus

It has long been taken as a given that in the 1980s President Vaclav Klaus - then employed as an economist at the Czechoslovak National Bank - was monitored by the StB, communist Czechoslovakia's secret police. But until now, concrete evidence was lacking. Not any more: on Wednesday a Czech newspaper, Mlada Fronta Dnes, revealed that it had uncovered microfiche dating back to the 1980s, confirming that Mr Klaus had indeed been watched.  More

Current AffairsDetails of Czechoslovakia's biggest disinformation operation published on web

Ask any Czech who is old enough to remember the Communist years what comes to mind when they hear the name Cerne Jezero, or the Black Lake. They will tell you that it is in Bohemia's Sumava region and the place where several chests containing Nazi secret police documents were found. The fact that the chests were actually placed there by Czechoslovakia's own secret police, the StB, only came to light after one of their agents defected and wrote a book about the operation. But now, the original StB documents with detailed information about the plan can be found on the web:  More