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Meme of Kaliningrad (🇨🇿 Královec) as Czech territory, after
@TomasZdechovsky
joked that 🇨🇿 + 🇵🇱 could seize it in response to Putin's sham annexations.
Kaliningrad was founded in 1255 in honour of Bohemian king Přemysl Otakar II.
So would be totes legit by 🇷🇺 standards.
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Slovakia’s
@ZuzanaCaputova
has arrived on stage to congratulate
@general_pavel
on his convincing victory over
@AndrejBabis
Both the 🇨🇿 and 🇸🇰 presidents will now be unabashed liberals who value their countries’ membership in NATO and the EU.
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Czech president-elect
@general_pavel
will speak to
@ZelenskyyUa
this afternoon, and plans to visit Kyiv with
@ZuzanaCaputova
in the spring. He'll also speak to
#Taiwan
's president Tsai Ing-wen. Early indication of his foreign policy priorities. 🇨🇿🇸🇰🇺🇦🇹🇼
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🇨🇿 DefMin
@jana_cernochova
confirms to
@novinkycz
that 🇨🇦 + 🇩🇰 have signed up to finance a 🇨🇿 plan to purchase up to 800,000 artillery shells for 🇺🇦.
Other (unnamed) countries also involved.
🇨🇿
@prezidentpavel
said shells could arrive 'within weeks'
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The Czech president
@prezidentpavel
has travelled overnight from Kyiv to
#Dnipro
.
He arrived a day after 🇷🇺 missile attacks left two dead in the city.
🇨🇿 media reporting he is the first foreign president to visit eastern Ukraine since the war started.
🇨🇿 🇺🇦
❗️Prezident
@prezidentpavel
se přesunul na východní Ukrajinu. Ráno přicestoval vlakem do Dnipra. Česko drží nad poválečnou rekonstrukcí zdejší oblasti patronát.
@Radiozurnal1
@iROZHLAScz
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(Not very fascinating) fact: there are at least five "informal groupings" in Central Europe, and 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 are the only ones in all of them. They're like the guys who get invited to every party.🍸
(clockwise from top left: Slavkov, Central 5, Visegrád 4, Three Seas, Bucharest 9)
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Oh dear.
Seems 🇨🇿 senior 'Václav P' who according to a govt MP would be quite happy with a lower pension:
- also got 40% off a check-up in Anápolis (🇧🇷)
- is no longer worried about having an emergency phone line for seniors (in 🇩🇪)
- survived lung cancer (in St Louis 🇺🇸)
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Journalists obviously shouldn't let their feelings known when they see such photos. But some things I think we can say with safety. Some people ask why Czechs and Slovaks and Poles and so on were so keen to join NATO after escaping the clutches of Moscow. And I think it's this.
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Seven wild piglets went to the theatre. In Česká Lípa.
Not a Czech fairytale. This happened last night.
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City of Prague votes to rename part of Korunovační st that's home to 🇷🇺 embassy/consulate as "Ukrainian Heroes Street." Small railway bridge nearby will be named after Vitalii Skakun, the 🇺🇦 marine combat engineer who gave his life on Feb 24 blowing up a bridge outside Kherson.
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Zeman's spokesman didn't comment on the president's health today but did say he had apricot rolls for lunch and had ordered the wine sausages with potato purée for tomorrow. I make no comment whatsover except to say never, ever, ever assume anything in Czech politics.
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Simply cannot believe this is permissible in a civilised country.
New campaign by far-right SPD. The slogan reads:
‘Shortcomings in healthcare will not be resolved by imported surgeons’
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Rare photo of UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in conversation with Czechoslovakia's first president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
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Of the 12 men who have served as president of either Czechoslovakia or the Czech Republic since 1918, only two were technically born in Czechoslovakia.
This information is of almost no use whatsoever. Fun fact though.
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99-year-old Slovak National Uprising veteran Otto Šimko told me why he supports
@MierUkrajine
:
"I lived through the Second World War. I fought in it. I can tell you there was no point negotiating with Hitler and there is no point negotiating with Putin."
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Good interview today with
@general_pavel
, on the war, western military aid and prospect of NATO membership for 🇺🇦.
Filmed by trusty crew
@Likkk_1
and Filip Maryško.
Material coming tomorrow (Wed) on
@BBCWorld
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The flagpole incident with
@prezidentpavel
is currently the most watched video on
@BBCWorld
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Czech Senator
@Nemcova_Mirka
: "When someone talks like Hitler, thinks like Hitler, acts like Hitler, he ends up just like Hitler. Even if his name is Putin." More diplomatic language from Czech PM
@P_Fiala
+ other govt ministers. Prague Castle: silence.
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Turned the telly on but it was just some guy reading out the Czech constitution. Bit boring to be honest.
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Košice. Svitlana, English teacher from Korosten. Fleeing with her 7-year-old son Illia and their cat Maya. Heading to friends in Wrocław. She approaches me, laughing. ‘Do you want a photo of our cat?’ By the second question she’s crying. By the end we both are.
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Thanks again to 🇨🇿 for allowing me to live in a place of political stability.
I returned yesterday from my homeland. Rebel factions loyal to the disgraced former prime minister are seeking his return. A pro-democracy demo is planned for Nov 5th.
The mood remains tense but calm.
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Arty shot of Brad Pitt relaxing between takes of Oceans 11.
(Happy Birthday)
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This is when
@CzechTV
's unrivalled network of local reporters really comes into its own.
Fast-paced, fluid, info-packed live reporting from drenched Martin Štěpánek in České Budějovice on
@CT24zive
, including great interview w local governor
@Kuba_Martin
Prostě top a směkám.
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Photos of
@JanLipavsky
with Israeli President
@Isaac_Herzog
& Foreign Minister
@elicoh1
"You were the first who came to our aid in 1948. And now you're the first foreign representative" [to visit], said Cohen, a reference to Czechoslovakia's crucial role in the creation of 🇮🇱
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‘Special Parking Operation’ 😆
The Russian embassy in Ireland is calling this "a deliberate ramming of the gate, which breaches the Vienna Convention"
Dubliners disagree, calling the act "a Special Parking Operation"
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Today's
@milionchvilek
demo "against fear and hatred" appears to be extremely well-attended. Wencelas Square completely full.
It's a response to recent protests by far-right, pro-Russia forces which have targeted 🇨🇿 military support for 🇺🇦 and high energy prices.
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81 years today. And we still don't know for sure where their bodies are. Čest jejich památce.
🇨🇿🇸🇰🇬🇧
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Ubla. Waiting after registering to take people to SVK/CZ/POL on way back to Prague. The numbers start picking up around noon, say the transport people. One minivan & one Fabia combík. Eight seats in total. Music/Wi-Fi included. Competitive rates (0kč/km). 🚘
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Get your collapsing
#CrimeanBridge
cakes from
@cafedlask
in Varnsdorf while they’re hot. Chocolate and pistachio apparently.
Dnes máme v nabídce nový prototyp, čokoládovo-pistáciovou tartaletku v kerčském stylu. Слава Україні!
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From today
@CzechTV
offering simultaneous translation of its flagship evening news programme Události in Ukrainian, to help the 200,000 refugees here better understand their new home. Klobouk dolu.
Česká televize chce usnadnit uprchlíkům z Ukrajiny orientaci v nové zemi. Od dnešních 19 hodin proto bude vysílat Události simultánně tlumočené do ukrajinštiny – tlumočení bude dostupné v aplikaci HbbTV a na webu iVysílání.
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Protestors in Prague have staged a graphic protest in front of the consular section of the Russian Embassy to remember the murder of unarmed civilians in
#Bucha
. The section of street was recently renamed 'Ukrainian Heroes St'. Photos:
@iROZHLAScz
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On the comment attributed to 🇨🇿
@P_Fiala
by the Associated Press this evening that the Czech Republic could no longer take refugees from Ukraine. This is not what he said. I've listened back to the Czech and the verbatim quote is below.
@KyivIndependent
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Petr Pavel: Ex-general beats populist rival in Czech election
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Someone put a MAGA hat on the Havel bust in Congress last night. He'd appreciate the absurdity I think.
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@Vcernohorsky
& cameraman Pavel Němeček,
@JakubSzanto
,
@MichalKubal
,
@PetrObrovsky
& countless others, especially
@CT24zive
+ Události mods, are doing an incredible job. Fast-paced, compelling, empathetic coverage informed by deep geopolitical, historical + cultural context.
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Czech PM
@P_Fiala
says some 15 countries signed up to a 🇨🇿 plan to immediately buy artillery shells outside 🇪🇺 at Macron's war summit in Paris on Mon evening.
🇳🇱 pledged 100m EUR. 🇩🇰🇨🇦 had already confirmed their involvement.
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I’ve seen this every day for last 7 days. 🇸🇰 police & soldiers pulling suitcases, pushing baby-strollers, carrying kids. Reassuring both exhausted Ukrainian mothers & bewildered foreign students. They’ve been the model of courtesy & professionalism & 🇸🇰 shd be proud of them.
Na hraničním přechodu s Ukrajinou ve Vyšném Nemeckém začíná další den. I za svítání přes hranici proudí další uprchlíci. Většinou jsou to ženy s dětmi. Do tepla a bezpečí je často doprovází přímo od přechodu policisté.
@OndraVanura
@iROZHLAScz
@Radiozurnal1
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Long queue at my polling station as voting begins. Will
@AndrejBabis
get another four years in power? We won’t know, probably for weeks or maybe months. But after 28 years here, as a newly minted Czech citizen it’s great to have a voice.
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I guess she's minister of defence, not foreign affairs. So doesn't have to be, um, diplomatic.
#Putin70
Děkuji přátelům ze sbírky Dárek pro Putina za dárek pro mě. 💋
Kdy jindy bych si měla obléknout jejich triko, než právě 7. října a sdělit svůj občanský postoj k jednomu z největších zločinců naší éry. Brzy zvítězíme. ✌🏻💙💛
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Tolik aut v tak malém městě s skvělou MHD je idiotství. Za volant 8 z 10 aut v praze sedí jeden člověk. Všichní to vidíme. Není kde parkovat. Vzduch trpí. Stát/město má udělat maximum aby odradili lidem jet autem. Zpomalit, zužit, zdanit, zpoplatnit. A to řikám jako řidič.
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Czech police have released images of two men wanted for "serious offences in 2014", after expulsion of 18 Russian diplomats over 2014 explosion at ammunitions dump. The two are the Russian GRU agents believed to have carried out novichok attack in Salisbury.
Národní centrála proti organizovanému zločinu SKPV, žádá v souvislosti s prověřováním okolností závažné trestné činnosti o pomoc při pátrání po dvou osobách.
#policiepp
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@MichalKubal
Nejhorsi je ze za nekolik malo hodin uslysime namitky typu "proc stale stoji nektere kufry vpredu", "na 0'06" se mirne pohybuje jedna noha", "takovy fialovy batoh se na Ukrajine vubec neprodava, jsou ale k dispozice v Britanii" atd 🤮
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Maybe hottest of hot takes but is this also the beginning of the end of Visegrad 4?
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Goodbye lovely fast escalator. 🥲
See your slow EU-standard replacement in about a year’s time.
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Sobering, lucid essay by Czech PM
@P_Fiala
"Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine is not a deviation, a temporary defect in Russian foreign policy, but rather the product of its long-term direction and an expression of Russian imperial culture."
Whatever we do for Ukraine today, we are doing for our own future.
Peace and normal relations with Russia can be established only when its western border is clearly defined and secured, and today that is the border with the independent Ukraine.
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Pešky všude už čtvrtej měsíc. Auto max 2x tydně (velký nakup s rodinou + jinak fyzicky nemožná cesta z P2 na P9 s dítěm do 20 minut). Mám 9-12km denně, cca 2kg dolu, citim se líp a hlavně už nezažiju infarktový vztek z chovaní dalšich ridičů. Doporučují a podporují.
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The Czech Republic is one of Israel's staunchest allies in Europe.
Benjamin Netanyahu had been due to lead an Israeli delegation to Prague on Monday for a joint Czech-Israeli cabinet meeting, which was cancelled shortly after news of the attacks broke.
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Looks the same age as my son. Yesterday I lost my temper with him because he wouldn't get out of the car. I imagine this boy's dad has lost his temper with him too on occasion. Sharing for all the dads. And all the sons.
"Where is my dad?" Dima, a young Ukrainian boy, cries from his hospital bed as he asks for his father, who, like Dima, was injured in Mariupol. His father is being treated in another part of the hospital.
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These are extraordinarily serious allegations if true.
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@Ian_Willoughby
Very puzzling. It’s fairly decent. It’s the English that hundreds of thousands of Czech middle managers, officials and entrepreneurs speak. It’s clear & intelligible. It’s a little dry and dull with a strong Cz accent. But comical? Hardly.
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Czech PM
@AndrejBabis
has changed his Twitter profile pic from the previous one showing him wearing a MAGA-style red baseball cap with the words 'Silné Česko' (Strong Czech Republic), to one of him wearing a face mask with the Czech flag.
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Perhaps a little hyperbolic but surely the history of this war will include a chapter on the Czech artillery ammunition initiative.
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Miro Žbirka was an absolute dude when I interviewed him at home in Prague about the split of Czechoslovakia with his (Czech) wife Kateřina. His song made a really great end to the piece and he was utterly charming. Great stories too. RIP Meky.
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Many in 🇬🇧 are saying (I couldn't possibly comment) that the BBC's coverage of this war has hammered home the need for well-funded public service broadcasting with the budget and scope to cover foreign news properly. The same goes for
@CzechTV
. The viewers won't forget it.
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This is more bad news for the Kremlin, as Zetor now make some of the most terrifying tractors in the world.
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Czechs are expelling 18 Russian diplomats from Prague embassy - all those identifed as SVR and GRU agents , say authorities. Czech PM Babis says evidence they were involved in explosion at Czech ammunitions dump.
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Czech covidiots/antivaxxers plumb new depths of idiocy and crassness. Yellow stars of David with the words "untested and unvaccinated" on them. 80,000 Bohemian and Moravian Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
@mariannaspring
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And special shout out to the Události editor who decided (pushed colleagues?) to include a daily 1-min edit of social media videos & harrowing footage. On first viewing it seemed cheap, commercial. Now it's integral. Punches you in the gut. Every night.
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@DarPutinovi
Currently second-most read story on our website (and did a radio report for
@bbcworldservice
this morning)
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Shaním zdravotnici kteří osobně čelili hrozbám, slovní nebo fyzické útokům kvůli jejich práci v boji proti Covidu. Pro BBC radio, klidně česky. DMs open. Díky.
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🇸🇰 President
@ZuzanaCaputova
embraces owner of Tepláreň gay bar, where two young men were shot dead in apparent hate crime on Wed eve.
Alleged gunman - whose Twitter account featured a neo-Nazi manifesto full of hate towards Jews + LGBT people - is believed to have shot himself.
Prezidentka
@ZuzanaCaputova
uctila památku včerejší střelby před bratislavským gaybarem Tepláreň. Zapálila svíčku, majitele podniku dlouze objala
@iROZHLAScz
@Radiozurnal1
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Bloody hell.
Czech climber Adam Ondra climbing El Capitán in Yosemite National Park.
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Fico asks 'who now will protect Slovakia's nuclear power plants & strategic facilities?' as Italy plans to withdraw its air defence battery.
But surely the question is what country would have the means & motive to attack 🇸🇰 from the air?
Hmm. Tough one.
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Our write-up of the Russia ricin allegations, joint effort with BBC Russian Section and
@BBCWorld
.
@ZdenekHrib
,
@okundra
.
@petrkutilek
@OndrejKolar6
@ZhannaNemtsova
. Quite a story.
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Spoke to a (Czech) friend who said he had to drive down south yesterday a 'všichni jeli jak magoři, zvlášt v těch lepšich autech, jsem rád že jsem vůbec dojel domů...'
Personally I ain't driving anywhere til it's a bit warmer. Cos...well, češi jezdějí jak magoři basically.
Pět jednotek vyjelo k dopravní nehodě dvou nákladních automobilů a dvou osobních aut na D7 u Panenské ho Týnce. Při nehodě byl jeden člověk zraněn. Vzala jej do péče Zdravotnická záchranná služba. Silně namrzlá silnice ve směru na Prahu je uzavřena.
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Hats off to
@CT24zive
reporters as always for keeping their cool under pressure, reporting here from a hostile crowd demonstrating against Covid restrictions. "We pay your salaries!" is one of the more polite comments. Yup you do, so your voice too can be heard.
#dikyzemuzem
“Ty raubíři!”
“Vlastizrádče!”
“Jak můžeš papouškovat těm sv***m zk**venejm?”
Ano, i tohle je realita 17. listopadu 2021. Slovní útoky na reportéra ČT ze strany odpůrců covidových opatření na Staroměstském náměstí.
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"Ukraine deserves to join NATO", Czech President-elect
@general_pavel
says in TV interview for
@BBCWorld
News on air today.
Camera/edit + photos/stills:
@Likkk_1
& Filip Maryško
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Two images, 102 years apart. Army field hospital for Spanish flu patients, Camp Funston, Kansas, 1918. Army field hospital for Covid patients, Letnany, Prague, 2020.
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@UKRinCZE
's campaign to buy 🇨🇿 weapons for the 🇺🇦 armed forces appears to be one of the largest such initiatives in the world. say they've now raised 650m Kč (26m euros). Graphic shows what the money (in Kč) buys. Effort is supported by 🇨🇿 PM
@P_Fiala
.
Česká sbírka na zbraně pro Ukrajinu je světově unikátní. A může mít globální dosah. Přečtete si ale hlavně se podívejte, co můžete Ukrajincům "koupit", když pošlete peníze na 304452700/0300! Díky za konzultaci
@TomasKopecny_CZ
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25,000 crosses chalked on Prague's Old Town Square to remember Czech Covid victims in first 12 months of pandemic. Chilling and sombre.
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Big story in
@dennikN
: western partners are beginning to filter what intelligence they share with 🇸🇰 govt, for fear of it being passed on to Moscow.
Article based on numerous intelligence sources in central & western Europe, as well as NATO.
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🇨🇿 president-elect
@general_pavel
:
Ukraine "morally & practically" ready to join NATO once war is over.
Sending planes to 🇺🇦 is "not taboo", but prob not helpful in time it would take to do it.
Putin "could end war today". But "no sign" 🇷🇺 wants peace.
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@derJamesJackson
Masaryk, Beneš, Hácha, Gottwald, Zápotocký, Novotný, Svoboda and Husák were all born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Klaus and Zeman were born in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
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Dekuju všem trolům a trotlům za názory: jako občan ČR mám i volební právo, určitě vaše připomínky mi budou příště pomáhat hodit správně. Ale hlavně že můžeme civilně diskutovat ve veřejném prostoru. Že jo.
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The 🇨🇿 lower house has passed a resolution describing the current Russian administration as "terrorist".
129 of 156 MPs present in the 200-seat chamber voted in favour.
The motion singled out 🇷🇺 attacks on 🇺🇦 civilian targets and critical infrastructure.
@bctallis
@mbk_center
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French President
@EmmanuelMacron
's first words on his visit to Prague today.
"Europe was cut in two by cowardice, by a desire on the part of one part of Europe to ignore the difficulties of the other by abandoning its fate to totalitarianism. 1/3
#Ukraine
Mots importants d’E.Macron 🇫🇷 à Prague 🇨🇿 :
« L’Europe avait été coupée en deux par la lâcheté, par une volonté d’une partie de l’Europe de ne pas voir les difficultés de l’autre en abandonnant le destin de celle-ci au totalitarisme. 1/3
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After buying
#Ukraine
a T-72 tank, a multi-launch rocket system, demining equipment, ammunition etc the folk at
@GiftPutin
are now crowdfunding for a Black Hawk helicopter for 🇺🇦 military intelligence.
Price tag: just under €5m
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Mikuláš Minář and
@milionchvilek
hope 250,000 people will fill Prague's Letná plain on Sunday in the biggest protest since the fall of Communism (at least half a million assembled here on 25/26 Nov 1989). Tune in to
@BBCWorld
for live coverage.
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Lots of contenders obvs but this could be the stupidest thing I've seen in 27 years of living in the Czech Republic.
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If, in the highly unlikely event the Czech Republic really does annex Kaliningrad at some point in the future, historians centuries from now are going to have to explain that it started as a joke on Twitter.
#KralovecisCzechia
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Certainly in three decades living here I can't remember the
#CzechRepublic
and
#Slovakia
ever being spoken of in such terms. It does feel like the dawn of something. 🇨🇿🇸🇰
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There you go.
@PragueEU
has the second best public transport system in the world, according to a Time Out survey.
So it’s not just me.
@DPPOficialni
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Heard many say recently, including the excellent
@Telegraph
podcast 'Ukraine: The Latest', that "🇵🇱 was the first western country to supply tanks to 🇺🇦."
@MorawieckiM
I think said it.
But I'm fairly sure it was 🇨🇿?
@FrancisDearnley
@DomNicholls
@JTBcz
@carramba66
@bctallis
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The Lord moves in mysterious ways.
@AndrejBabis
wanted to kick off his second round campaign today at the Discalced Carmelite Church of Our Lady of Victories, home to the famous Infant Jesus of Prague.
The Carmelites weren't very happy about that, so they closed the church.
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