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Prague 6 municipality has covered the statue of a Soviet marshal whose forces liberated Prague in WWII, claiming it needs protection from vandals. The move angered many Czechs, including the president’s spokesman.

Authorities in the northwestern Bubeneč district announced that they can no longer keep cleaning the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev after continuous acts of vandalism against it, so they decided to cover it with a tarpaulin.

The move, announced by the mayor of Prague 6, Ondrej Kolar, caused an immediate backlash. Several dozen people protested against the decision on Monday at the statue’s location, including the Czech president’s spokesman Jiri Ovčaček.

“We have different opinions and we choose different political parties, but one thing connects us, we reject the rewriting of history and we reject people who trample on the values of democracy,” Ovčaček said in a speech.

He was one of the multiple Czechs protesting the covering-up as it happened. He posted a photo of him bowing his head before Konev’s statue on his Twitter account, calling him “liberator of the Czech Republic and of the Auschwitz death camp.”

The Russian Embassy condemned the timing of Kolar’s decision, made “in the run-up to the 80th anniversary of the most horrific military conflict in human history.” The embassy claimed it has received numerous letters from Czech citizens denouncing this move, with some “wondering which side would the incumbent municipal government of Prague 6 district support during World War Two.”

While the embassy did not provide specific examples of the letters, denunciation of the act from the Czech general public was evident. A man named Jiri Cernohorsky, described as “anti-immigration activist and supporter of the Russian Federation” removed the cover in protest on Friday and again during the Monday protest, and was reportedly apprehended by police for that.

In response to criticism, district boss Ondrej Kolar said the Konev statue is targeted for vandalism at least twice a year. He believes this illustrates the district population’s negative attitude towards Konev and called those gathered for Monday’s protest “extremists united by… a blind love for Russia.”

The monument to Konev was unveiled on May 9, 1980, the 35th anniversary of the liberation of Prague by the troops of the 1st Ukranian Front, commanded by Konev. While hailed as a WWII liberator, Konev’s post-war actions still spark controversy because of his role in the suppression of the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and the so-called Prague Spring of 1968.

Prague City Hall is running a new website Prague for All which is primarily intended for migrants living in Prague.

At the same time, it is a source of information for all inhabitants of the capital city of Prague, which is becoming more and more culturally diverse just like a number of other big European cities.

This website is available in several language versions – the ones that newcomers in Prague speak the most. It is designed as a reference point of the most important information and contacts for organisations, offices and their departments.

The aim is to enable migrants to get as much information as possible about dealing with everyday situations and living in the city that has become their new home.

The website also provides information about courses of Czech, cultural events and opportunities to participate in public life, which give migrants a chance to integrate into life in the capital city and in the Czech Republic.

You can follow the Facebook page here

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WebExpo is Central Europe’s largest conference covering deep tech & practical topics for designers, developers, product managers, and marketers. It will take place on September 20-22 in Prague gathering 70 experts, 7 hands-on workshops and hosting 1700 participants from different parts of Europe. Learn more in the program

It will feature a wide range of experts in Web Development, UX Designs, AI & ML and Online Marketing from around the world and the Czech Republic.

Here are some of the most interesting talks:

- (UX) Bringing personality back to the web – Vitaly Friedman, co-founder of Smashing Magazine will shed some light on the strategy of how to bring personality back to web design, and how we can make our experiences more humane while also having a higher ROI.
- (UX) How to win the hearts of your new users – Inna Kerzman, User-centered Growth Expert specialized in customer retention, learned at Fiverr.com that new users’ behavior varies significantly from recurring users’. Knowing this, she will show strategies and practical tools that will help you design a better experience to make your new users more valuable and loyal.
- Code in the dark: This is not a talk but it is really worth to mentioning that if you feel like a CSS & HTML master, you should prove it the dark… while others are watching. Get to know how to participate.
- (DEV) More than you ever wanted to know about Resource Hints – Harry Roberts, Front-end architect, will take a look at all of the different Resource Hints available, real-world examples of how to use them best, and share some of the more obscure intricacies and gotchas that we need to be aware of if we want to make our websites faster.

- (MKT) Make Your Marketing Memorable With Visual Storytelling – Jessica Gioglio will show us practical tips to grow our businesses and strengthen our brands by telling stories through leveraging photos, videos, infographics, cartoons and more. ROI.
- (MKT) Why Some Entrepreneurs Generate Millions In Huge Companies (And Most Don’t) – Greg Larkin will tell us the true story of those entrepreneurs behind those 1M$ breakthroughs launched by huge companies. Greg also has launched some of the most astounding transformations of our time at Google and Uber. He will also lead the workshop: Build a billion-dollar startup inside your company.
- (MKT) How to sell for those who hate selling – if you hate selling, this is great news. In a world of sales noise, quality and focus win the market, the cold email outreach is dead. Philip Delvecchio will encourage us to go back to the basics and learn how relationships & value signaling drive business. Also, he will lead the workshop How To Sell Into The US Market

The organization will have different activities to encourage networking such as workshops, speakers’ corner, and meeting areas. Additionally, they will organize free IT courses for kids and offer a childcare service.

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Every seventh Prague inhabitant is a foreigner and a half of them have permanent residence in the Czech Republic, an analysis by the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR) shows.

In 2018, the number of foreigners registered in Prague exceeded 200,000. Overall, foreigners make up more than 15% of all Prague residents.

The analysis also states that foreigners are becoming a stable part of Prague’s future population and are a perspective source of workforce for the local labor market.

The most numerous group of foreigners living in Prague are 51,000 Ukrainians, followed by 31,500 Slovaks and 24,000 Russians. Taken together, these three countries form more than half of the total number of foreigners in Prague.

Foreigners are also becoming a stable part of Prague’s future population. This stabilization is particularly necessary to meet the needs of the labor market, as unemployment in Prague is one of the lowest in EU.

The number of citizens from the European Union is 1/3 of all foreigners. The remaining two-thirds are citizens from the so-called third countries: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein.

Almost 50% of foreigners have a permanent residence in Prague, which confirms the stability of this Prague population, especially in relation to the labor force potential.

Hungarian electric carsharing company GreenGo is set to expand abroad for the first time, setting up an operation in Prague.

Three years ago, GreenGo was the first company to introduce a fleet composed solely of environmentally friendly EVs in Central and Eastern Europe with its launch in Budapest.

The company grew quickly, expanding its fleet from an initial 45 vehicles to 300 by 2019, and says it is still maintaining steady growth, despite other major service providers joining the Budapest market.

People in Prague can already meet GreenGoʼs Volkswagen eUP cars as they are currently conducting test drives around the city.

“After securing GreenGo’s Budapest operations, we wanted to expand to a Central European city that offers great business opportunities, has a high affinity for the culture of carsharing, shares some similarities with Budapest in terms of size, and is close to our hometown,” GreenGoʼs managing partner, Bálint Michaletzky comments.

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The company will be officially launching its EV fleet service in Prague during Q4 2019. The company says that more details on the service will be available following the test period. Czech operations will be headed by Šimon Čapek.

“Drawing upon decades of management experience in European and Asian corporate positions and dozens of international product launches, Simon opted to bring his skills and expertise to help a local, innovative enterprise grow. We are very pleased to have him on board and he is very determined to create a more sustainable, and environmentally friendly way of transportation,” Mihaletzky adds.

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Cinema club Evald is a small, classy cinema – it is in the Prague city center, has a stable program with four movies running each day, including mainstream selections, at least movies suitable for a small screen, as well as art movies and films from different countries.

The generous front door invites you to the more private underground area, which is cozy with the carpets and classy with the cloakroom, especially handy during winter. In summer, the cool underground environment is relieving and rewarding.

No drinks are offered in this cinema, but you can get started before the film in the local restaurant, which is just at the end of the same corridor, and of course, also discuss there later on the impact of the film you have just seen. I really like this cinema, there are not many of this type in Prague these days.

Author: Irena Schlosser. You can find the original article here

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