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Almost three years after the end of World War 2, on the 25th of February 1948, the Communist Party seized power in Czechoslovakia. What followed was forty years of hard-line authoritarian rule and the Czechoslovak calendar remembered the date as "Victorious February". looks back at the day which changed the life of this country for so many years.

The Lower House of Czech Parliament has recently passed a bill allowing for the import of second-hand cars up to 8 years old to the Czech Republic - the limit is currently five years. What some see as a way to make relatively good passenger cars available for more people, others warn it could make the Czech Republic Europe's scrap-yard. has the details.

So the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics are over and the Czech Republic has one gold medal - Ales Valenta's in the freestyle aerial skiing. On the Czech team's arrival back home this morning Ales Valenta and the head of the Czech Olympic Committee Milan Jirasek got straight off the plane and held a news conference at Prague airport. Milan Jirasek spoke first and he had this to say about his overall impressions of the Salt Lake City games. By .