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800,000 take strike action in the Czech Republic

By Markus Salzmann, June 27, 2008

The following article is to be translated into Czech for distribution at the next demonstration against the policies of the current Prague government.

Czech Republic: Mudslinging dominates presidential election

By Markus Salzmann, February 22, 2008

Vaclav Klaus was confirmed as president last week by the Czech parliament. The conservative incumbent had only an extremely small majority, but now returns to office for another five years as Czech he...

Planned US missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic intensify European tensions

By Markus Salzmann and Cezar Komorovsky, March 17, 2007

The announcement by the US government of plans to station a missile defence system in Poland and a radar facility in the Czech Republic has led not only to an increasingly hostile atmosphere between R...

US signs up Poland and Czech Republic for missile shield

By Niall Green, February 8, 2007

In a move set to further destabilise international relations, the United States has officially announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Czech Republic to host a radar station as part o...

State racism in the Czech Republic

By Achim Heppding, November 24, 1999

At 4.00 a.m. on October 13 a wall was erected overnight under the supervision of the police in Usti, the capital of the north Bohemian province in the Czech Republic. The wall is 62 metres long, 1.8 m...