
Big financial groups are betting on growth in the Czech and Slovak media. Or are they just looking to buy good press?

Martians, purple flames, black magic – it must be election season in Eastern Europe.
Is it bad management or a competing venture that is threatening the Andy Warhol Museum in eastern Slovakia?

By taking on a neo-Nazi party in the courtroom and winning, the Czech government may have set a precedent for the entire region.

Most Czechs and Poles share this border town peaceably, but apparently for some, bilingual signs were a step too far.
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