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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:

A red London double-decker bus was cruising the streets of Ostrava on Wednesday, as the British ambassador to the Czech Republic, David Broucher, visited the city. With last week's visit by the Austrian ambassador and the Phillipine's ambassador set to visit the city next week, it seems that Ostrava is doing as much as possible to lure foreign investment to the region. But will it succeed? For more here's our Ostrava correspondent, .

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 .