Order of the White Lion

An exhibition reveals 100 years of the Order of the White Lion

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An exhibition reveals 100 years of the Order of the White Lion

Its bearers became Queen Elizabeth II. (1996), Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1999) and Jiřina Bohdalová (2021). The importance of the highest state award of the Czech Republic was not diminished even by the period when the comrades invented dozens of other, sometimes absurd, orders. The Order of the White Lion is unique. This is also proven … Read more

This is how Clinton enjoyed Prague: Beer with Hrabal and Havel, jazz in Reduta. What awaits him this year?

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This is how Clinton enjoyed Prague: Beer with Hrabal and Havel, jazz in Reduta. What awaits him this year?

The former first man of America visited Prague several more times, for example in October 2001 he took part in the Forum 2000 international conferencea meeting of the Madrid Club in November 2005 and in December 2011 he came with his wife to the state funeral of Václav Havel, with whom he had warm relations. … Read more