Editorial
Dear readers,
Along with a new logo and website, The New Presence is making other changes as well. The TNP website will offer all new content weekly, which will be available for free to all readers. For a modest fee, you can also access our completely unique archives of all back issues since 1996, and old articles. Please see the Archive section for more details.
With a renewed resolve to bring you in-depth analysis and coverage of all the imporant events happening in Central Europe and the surrounding region, we wish you a good read.
- Publisher and editorial staff.
A specialization in destruction
Latvia today is a place of where society is being torn apart by devilish games. Revolutions have caused more destruction than renewal and nationalists fighting with their "enemies" only obscures reality.
News wrap-up from the region for the week of 6-12 February, 2012
There is a mismatch between the rate of debt creation and the rate at which we can grow real wealth in order to pay that debt off.
In the past six years, the network of Baby Boxes in the Czech Republic has helped get 65 babies to safety, but are they really helping?
A conversation about last year's film Lidice and the future of Czech cinema.
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Ferdinand Dobrotivy Award
- 20 February 2012
Eestern European Playwrights: Women Write the New. Czech Centre New York. 12 and 26 March 2012. This year, the Immigrants’ Theatre Project will present two plays by a Hungarian and a Slovak female playwright. http://new-york.czechcentres.cz/news/eestern-european-playwrights/ - 20 February 2012
František Kaván: symbolist, decadent. Kinsky Palace stables, Prague. 16 Feb - 13 May, 2012. Exhibits of the early works of Czech painter and poet František Kaván (1866-1941) from the 1890s. His symbolist and decadent lanscapes were interconnected with his poetry. - 05 February 2012
Middle East Europe DOX art gallery, Prague 26 Jan - 20 Apr 2012 An exhibition presenting works of European artists who are responding to the Middle Eastern conflict in direct confrontation with the works of their Palestinian and Israeli counterparts. http://www.dox.cz/en/exhibition?86 - 05 February 2012
Carnevale Praha 2012 10-21 Feb 2012 The Prague winter carneval will take place on the streets, in the squares and in numerous locations for 11 days this month. More info: www.carnevale.cz
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