Miloš Zeman celebrates victory on January 27. Filip Singer/EPA January 29, 2018 Miloš Zeman’s victory in Czech presidential election is another setback for Western liberalism Jan Ruzicka, Aberystwyth University Miloš Zeman, who has been re-elected for a second five year term at the Czech president, is not a run of the mill national populist.
A woman holding a Roma flag, at a protest in Lety, Czech Republic, the site of World War II Romani genocide. Martin Divisek/EPA January 24, 2018 Anti-Roma stigma of Czech president Miloš Zeman threatens progress over Romani rights Celia Donert, University of Liverpool Racist stigmatisation of Roma as socially ‘unadaptable’ has a long history across Europe.
EPA/Filip Singer November 3, 2016 Town and country: Prague stands alone against Czech Republic’s nationalist president Jan Culik, University of Glasgow While the citizens of the capital protest against their president, everyone else hails him as their saviour.
This crowd wants their president out David W Cerny/Reuters December 4, 2014 Prague’s velvet: wearing off 25 years later Igor Lukes, Boston University The United States had just gone through a bruising election, but in Congress Democratic and Republican leaders gathered to unveil the bust of Vaclav Havel, the playwright and first post-Communist Czech…