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The chairman of the extreme right National Alliance, Vladimir Skoupy, was released from jail on Thursday. Mr. Skoupy was given a one-year suspended sentence earlier this month for making racist speeches at far right demonstrations. joins me now with this report:

The well-known, and for some, controversial Czech singer Karel Gott is to give a concert in New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall on September 29th. The concert is sponsored by the New York-based Golden Prague restaurant, whose owner Jiri Suchanek told reporters if there was a Czech singer big enough to play Carnegie Hall, it was undoubtedly Karel Gott, a sentiment not shared by everybody in the Czech Republic, says .

The drama surrounding the IPB bank is increasingly becoming obscured by a fierce dispute between the country's two largest political parties. The main opposition Civic Democrats have described the government's move to save the bank from collapse as daylight robbery. The whole case may also have international consequences. reports.