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Guest Writer|21.05.2012

Suburbia in Central Europe

The suburbanization of Central Europe is running rampant. Former inhabitants of the region’s capital cities have been flocking in droves to its outskirts. But the reality of the region’s version of the “American Dream” is dead suburbia. A two-year project, which aims to bring these issues to light and the communities to life, will see 30 interventions–rooted in architecture and the arts–realized in six localities in Central Europe.

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Martin Rychlík|21.05.2012

Czech scientists, get to know this American!

Czech scientists are increasingly on the American radar: domestic research institutions now have a right to apply for grants awarded by US defense agencies, a Czech-American agreement on scientific cooperation has been signed, and an Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) has been established at the US embassy here — and a represtentative of the grant-giving National Science Foundation (NSF) is on an extended visit.

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Society
Martin Rychlík|21.05.2012

Dubbing versus subtitles

The Czechs have a special fondness for dubbing films and TV series – for which up to five episodes are voiced in one go. This production line process sometimes results in translations that grate on the ears, but there is more at stake. The Ministry of Education wants it curbed: if school-age children were obliged to start reading the subtitles, they would begin to naturally to learn foreign languages and even apply them in practice. 

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Society
Michael Stein|18.05.2012

Book World Prague 2012: exploring Black Sea literature

The guest of honor at this year’s book fair is Romania, and according to Book World Prague (BWP) director Dana Kalinová, this gave them an opportunity to make a broader presentation of writing from other countries around the Black Sea. One of the most interesting writers who will be participating in the Black Sea panels is Ukrainian sailor turned writer Anton Sanchenko.

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Foreign Affairs
Guest Writer|18.05.2012

NATO ponders austerity and US ‘pivot’

When NATO heads of state meet in Chicago this Sunday and Monday, two key worries will be on their minds. In a departure from the past six decades, the US has come to style itself as a Pacific, rather than Atlantic, power. And the Europeans are busy plundering their defense budgets in order to cope with the economic crisis. Any one of those two events alone would have a dramatic effect on how the alliance works. Taken together, they risk pushing NATO into irrelevance, writes the CER’s Tomáš Valášek.

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Politics & Policy|Society
Chris Johnstone|18.05.2012

Top Czech politician nailed in graft probe says he’s like Ukraine’s Yulia Tymoshenko

David Rath, the former Social Democrat health minister and governor of Central Bohemia who turned Czech politics a deep red on the PH scale for his acidic attacks on opponents, claims from prison custody that he is a political victim of a staged crime like former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

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Martin Shabu|18.05.2012

Human factor key to Rath probe success, former anti-corruption police head says

Former head of the Czech anti-corruption police (ÚOKFK), Petr Vincenz, was in at the start of the long investigation that this week culminated  by reeling in top Social Democrat (ČSSD) politician David Rath and seven other suspects in what appears to be a high-profile graft case. Now out of the force, he talks about the preconditions that helped pave the way for such an outcome and his fears and foreboding for how the special police squad that piloted the probe might end up.

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Zdeněk Ondráček|17.05.2012

Finding money for Czech firefighters without stealing

In the first days of this year’s tropical weather, the number of calls to the Czech fire brigade (HZS) tripled. We should see this as a warning. An indication of how necessary this demanding profession is and that it is imperative for this component of the integrated rescue system to be operational. Anybody who has seen them in action knows this – but does the government and the Ministry of Interior?

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