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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

Spotted by Locals Prague is a blog (and iPhone & Android app) by locals who live & love their city.

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According to the Global Slavery Index 2018, the Czech Republic ranks 108th out of 167 countries.

There are currently over 30,000 people living in “modern slavery” in the country. Offenders use them mainly for seasonal work or in construction.

The country sentenced 16 people for human trafficking last year, according to data released by the Ministry of the Interior.

The study, conducted by Australia’s Walk Free Foundation, scores nations based on “combining the proportion of the population that is enslaved, the numbers in child or early marriages and the level of trafficking into or out of the country.”

While this only consists of 0.36 % of the Czech population of 10.5 million, this is more than 7 times higher than the average of 0.05 % in other Western European nations.

The Czech Republic is a primary destination for migrant workers from surrounding European nations, mainly from Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania or Vietnam. Migrant workers are often more vulnerable to trafficking or forced labor.

The 2018 edition builds on the Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, which estimated that 40.3 million people were in some form of slavery on any given day in 2016.

The Index provides rankings across three dimensions:

Size of the problem: estimated prevalence in terms of percentage of population and absolute numbers (by country):
Government response: How governments are tackling the problem:
Vulnerability: Factors that explain or predict prevalence

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The statue of Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev has been vandalized on the anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

The Prague 6 district said on its Facebook page on August 22, a day after the anniversary, those unknown individuals poured red paint on the statue and wrote with white paint on its base: “No to the Bloody Marshal! We will not forget.”

Prague city authorities say police are investigating the act of vandalism. Konev’s statue has been vandalized several times in recent years.

Authorities of the Czech capital’s district, where the statue was erected in 1980 to commemorate Konev’s role in liberating Czechoslovakia from Nazi occupation, have suggested moving the statue to a park near the Russian Embassy.

Marshal Konev (1897-1973) led Soviet troops that liberated most of Czechoslovakia’s territory and entered Prague on May 9, 1945.

In 1946, Prague’s Podebradska Street was renamed after him. Local authorities have been considering changing the street back to its previous name for several years.

In 1956, Konev took part in the brutal suppression by Soviet troops of the Hungarian uprising in Budapest.

In 1961, he was the commander of the Soviet troops in East Germany when the Berlin Wall was erected, and some historians say he also participated in planning the Soviet-led invasion by Warsaw Pact troops of Czechoslovakia in August 1968.

So, I was hesitating to make this suggestion. What if too many people would come here? Then I would lose my favorite place to get the best beer in Prague. Yes, of course, it is Pilsner Urquell, and you can get it in several hundreds of pubs in Prague. But, it is not only beer, but it is also the way it is drawn – and here it is done by experts…

Well, and now to the secret. Even though it is located next to the super overtouristed Karluv most, it has still not been discovered by the travel guides. Yes, it can be pretty busy, and people may be sitting on the pavement outside the pub, but if you know that, you should go to the kitchen and discover the stairs (see the picture) leading down to the cellar, where you may find a quieter place. And if you turn right at the end of the stairs and pass the beer tanks, you can even meet me…

And back to the beer. Do not ever order just beer, you would look like a tourist – order “shnet” (šnyt in Czech). The beer will come with a big head of foam and you should explore the taste of just a beer foam and compare it with the taste of liquid beer. And if you are even more adventurous, order “mleekoh” (mlíko in Czech) – you will get just a foam.

Author: Michal Lebl. You can find the original article here

Spotted by Locals Prague is a blog (and iPhone & Android app) by locals who live & love their city.

New painted body outlines of fallen pedestrians on tram tracks appeared at the intersection of Spálená and Národní trida and three other locations in Prague. The hashtag #113 symbolizes the number of killed pedestrians in the Czech Republic last year.

The campaign aims to highlight the risks of looking at mobile phones while walking around instead of paying attention to the trams.

The campaign is intended to remind people that trams have priority at intersections. Because trams are on tracks, they cannot stop quickly, even if the driver sees the pedestrian on the tracks.

The project is a joint venture of the Prague Public Transit Company (DPP) in cooperation with safety organization BESIP, the Czech Police and regional transit organizer ROPID.

Although the number of traffic deaths has declined over the long run, the Czech Republic is still doing poorly compared to the rest of Europe. Prague had the highest accident rate of any Czech region.

Some 103,821 accidents occurred last year in the whole Czech Republic, and 502 people died. This is the lowest number of deaths since 1961 when the police introduced comprehensive accident statistics.

The safety campaign is running in Prague, Brno, Pilsen, Hradec Králové, Liberec, Olomouc, and Ostrava.

In these cities, 7421 pedestrians have been involved in public transport accidents over the past six years.

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