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New Galileo satellites in wrong orbit

August 24, 2014August 24, 2014 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post final frontier

The first two Galileo Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellites, launched on August 22 from the Guiana Space Centre, have not

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People 

Walking across the EU for child sex abuse awareness

January 7, 2014February 11, 2014 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post

Matthew McVarish will be walking across Europe on a 16 000 km journey until February 2015. So far he has

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Europe 

Putin: Pussy Riot, Greenpeace 30 and Khodorkovsky to go free

December 20, 2013 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post Russia

Two jailed members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot will be freed and 30 members of Greenpeace will be

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Lawyer: Pussy Riot could be free by New Year’s Day

December 12, 2013 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post Russia

The jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot may soon be free. The judicial collegium for criminal cases of

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Film review: We’re the Millers

September 5, 2013September 5, 2013 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post

Now that marijuana is slowly becoming legalized in parts of the US, it stands to reason that marijuana comedies will

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Film review: Riddick

September 5, 2013September 5, 2013 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post

“Back in the day,” as actor Vin Diesel likes to say in his revenge and car-chasing films, Diesel spoke to

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Film review: Elysium

August 29, 2013August 29, 2013 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post

Science fiction works best not when it is about the problems that people will face in the future, but when

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Europe 

Exhibitions, speeches mark 45th anniversary of Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

August 21, 2013August 21, 2013 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post Czech Republic

The 45th anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia was marked with a display of photographs, screenings of documentaries

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Books: The Last Bohemians

August 18, 2013August 18, 2013 Raymond Johnston of The Prague Post Czech Republic

One of the most common sights in Prague in the 1990s was an expat sitting at a café with a

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