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Breakfast Brief - 18 November 2009

Newton Media |
18 November 2009
NEWS Crowds celebrate Velvet anniversary Some 10,000 people gathered yesterday evening in downtown Prague to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism in the former Czechoslovakia. A crowd reprimanded President Václav Klaus earlier in the day when he arrived at Národní třída to lay down a wreath at a memorial for students. Police also detained 48 far-right extremists after they clashed with officers in the city centre. Source: most Czech press Sobotka: Communist, Nazi crimes deserve equal wrath

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