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The Brno Christmas market starts today, and the mayor promised changes
The famous Brno Christmas market starts today. After years of bummer and bad reputation, the Mayor promised this year should be different. For years the market was operated by a private company which could dictate the product categories to be sold in...
Czech tabloid invented a new U.S. state: Southern California
There have been numerous cases when U.S. media showed their lack of knowledge of the world geography. Once in a while CNN graphics would put the Czech Republic next to Iraq (see below), or France…etc. But it seems like Czech media have problems...
Regular flu: sick kids go to schools, principals say
Aside from the swine flu, the situation is getting worse in terms of the numbers of the people who have the “regular flu”. Some schools have recently been closed, as the Education Ministry and the Health Ministry issued a notice according...
Twenty years of freedom. And some people still miss the communist era
Tomorrow is November 17, 2009 – the Czech Republic and Slovakia will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, i.e. twenty years of freedom. (c) CTK News Agency Communism as a form of government is inherently totalitarian and the...
Smoking ban in the time of swine flu
(c) Getty Images People all over the world are sent home to get well or they are hospitalised due to the swine flu. It has been established that the illness is highly contagious so people who think they caught it are encouraged to avoid meeting their...
Fuck off, said the Brno Mayor to his Deputy. Twice.
(c) Denik.cz Fuck off, Martin. Fuck off, I say… …said the Mayor of the City of Brno Roman Onderka to his Deputy Martin Ander during a session of the City Council, the iDNES.cz news server wrote… The two politicians are coalition par...

