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(An excerpt) Some day somebody will write the true story of this Jewish emigration from Germany; and he will have to start with a description of that Mr. Cohn from …
Six months after the election, the Czech Republic is still without a government. And more than two months after the murder of a journalist Jan Kuciak and his partner in …
When the editor proposed to me to write about problems of Ukrainians in the EU, firstly I thought „no“. “No sence to write about problems of honest hard-working people, if …
Now, with many Russians feeling their country is under attack from the West, some are invoking the term in solidarity with Putin and defiance of his critics. The current issue …
Last week, Pope Francis let himself be heard that hell does not truly exist. The bad souls simply vanish and do not return. This, perhaps in coincidence with the death …
“The Interior Ministry confirmed on the morning of February 26 that the investigative journalist of the Aktuality.sk website, Ján Kuciak, was found dead in his house, obviously murdered, the Sme …
HAD Barack Obama looked out of the right window in the White House on May 29th 2016, he might have seen someone holding up a sign that read “Happy 55th …
IN THE late 1980s, as Mikhail Gorbachev launched perestroika, Russia made peace with the West. It was possible to believe that each would give up trying to subvert the other …
Below is an experpt from an article written by Dagmara Moskwa on Eurozine: “In 2015 the 70th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany was celebrated in grand style. …
Armenia is a country of great contrasts. For a Czech many things could seem incomprehensible, but there are a lot more which are so close to us. It is said, …
AS DEMOCRATIC checks and balances buckle in Poland and Hungary, the Czech Republic has seemed to many like the next central European country in line to succumb. Andrej Babis, a …
“CHAIN MIGRATION”, the process by which American citizens and green-card holders (permanent residents) bring family members to the United States to live, used to be a neutral term. It has, …
We recommend our readers the following short commentary published on the Stopfake.org. “This weekend, the first round of presidential elections was held in the Czech Republic. During the presidential campaign, …
The New Presence recommends its readers the following blog post written by Anne Applebaum. A quote from the blog follows: “No one has yet nailed down who really runs them …
While it is certainly true that a stare does not mean malice or hate, a stare can say a lot about the social progress and climate in a society. Before …
THREE hours into his marathon speech to the Communist Party congress in October, as delegates glanced surreptitiously at their watches, Xi Jinping, China’s president, sprang a surprise. “The practice of …
“Come on guys, let’s be serious. If you really want to do something, don’t just ‘like’ this post. Write that you are ready, and we can try to start something.” …
A hundred years have passed since one of the most explosive political events of the 20th century. The Russian Revolution of 1917 remarkably changed the social and political order in …
The anniversary of the Velvet Revolution is a Czech national holiday, November 17th, and I have always enjoyed walking around the city center on this day. There are lively protests …