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The recent election of former Army General Petr Pavel to the Presidency of the Czech Republic carries significant implications for the state of democracy in
čas čtení 19 minut - Shortly after the fall of communism Monika Pajerová saw herself, modestly, as an interpreter who, on the margins, helped some Civic Forum activists. - Ten years later, she was already a Hero of the 1989 Revolution, she had almost single-handedly carried it out. - Was the requirement for the construction of heroic figures, which emerged in 1999 along with anticommunism and attempts to exclude some citizens from the political process, really helpful? Many thanks to Veronika Pehe, Marián Lóži, and Jill Massino for their critical remarks on this text. In September 1...
čas čtení 20 minut - Těsně po pádu komunismu začátkem devadesátých let se Monika Pajerová skromně viděla v listopadu 1989 jen jako okrajová tlumočnice pro aktivisty z Občanského fóra. O deset let později už byla - stejně jako další studenti z roku 1989 - hrdinkou, která vlastnoručně zorganizovala celou revoluci. - Narativ smíření a inteligentní snahu o vytvoření občanské společnosti ("všichni jsme do určité míry kolaborovali") nahradil z kariérních důvodů antikomunismus a ahistorické vytěsnění komunismu z českých dějin.
Spy row revs up Russia tensions in heart of Europe © Getty Images The Czechs see the Russian embassy in Prague as suspiciously large As Europe marks VE Day, relations with one of its liberators, Russia, remain fraught with hostility and mistrust. The Czech Republic has expelled dozens of diplomats, amid claims that Moscow was behind a deadly sabotage operation. The annual commemoration here to remember 140,000 Soviet troops who died liberating Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany in 1945 is always a flashpoint between pro- and anti-Moscow camps. But this year the atmosphere was even more charg...
Spy row revs up Czech-Russian tensions By Rob Cameron image captionThe Czechs see the Russian embassy in Prague as suspiciously large As Europe marks VE Day, relations with one of its liberators, Russia, remain fraught with hostility and mistrust. The Czech Republic has expelled dozens of diplomats, amid claims that Moscow was behind a deadly sabotage operation. The annual commemoration here to remember 140,000 Soviet troops who died liberating Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany in 1945 is always a flashpoint between pro- and anti-Moscow camps. But this year the atmosphere was even more charged...