The objective is reportedly to protect another parts of US National Missile Defense from long-range missile strikes from Iran and North Korea, but Czech PM Mirek Topolánek said the main reason is to avoid Russian influence and strengthen ties to US.

The Czech premiere of the opera was presented by the National Theatre on 27 February 1898.

* Czech National Corpus

A flourishing center for arts and culture in Eastern Iowa, the city is home to the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, the Paramount Theatre, Theatre Cedar Rapids, and the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance.

The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is one of the major tourist attractions in Cedar Rapids, and the nearby Bohemian National Cemetery may also be of interest to visitors.

The National Czech & Slovak Museum's main building was located directly on the river and was badly damaged by the 2008 floods.

As of late 2010, the Board of Directors of the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library is pursuing a plan to move and then elevate its flood-damaged museum building.

Reflecting its Czech Catholic heritage, Prague is also the home of the National Shrine of the Infant Jesus, which draws numerous visitors each year.

The annual National Polka Festival which features Czech cuisine, polka music, dancing, and a parade is held on Memorial Day weekend.

Smetana wrote a series of patriotic works, including two marches dedicated respectively to the Czech National Guard and the Students ' Legion of the University of Prague, and The Song of Freedom to words by Ján Kollár.

On 16 May 1868 Smetana, representing Czech musicians, helped to lay the foundation stone for the future National Theatre ; he had written a Festive Overture for the occasion.

The name " Czech Philharmonic Orchestra " appeared for the first time in 1894, as the title of the orchestra of the Prague National Theatre.

The Czech countryside offers protected areas such as Bohemian Paradise ( Český ráj ), Bohemian Karst ( Český kras ) and Šumava National Park.

During the 19th century Czech National Revival, Czechs idealised Comenius as a symbol of the Czech nation.

* Czech Republic: National Gallery in Prague ( Národní galerie v Praze )

In the same month, all Czech or Slovak political parties in Slovakia ( except for the Communists ) voluntarily joined forces and set up the " Party of Slovak National Unity ", which created the basis for the future authoritarian regime in Slovakia.

After Future Systems won the Stirling Prize, the firm received larger commissions including the Maserati Museum in Modena, Italy ( 2009 ) and the unbuilt new Czech National Library.

2007 Won the commission for the controversial Czech National Library.

2008 Czech National Library project cancelled by Prague authorities.

Not until May 1938 did he begin " consistently to withhold his support from the National Government's conduct of foreign policy in the division lobbies of the House of Commons ", and he seems " to have been convinced by the Sudeten German leader, Henlein, in the spring of 1938, that a satisfactory settlement could be reached if Britain managed to persuade the Czech government to make concessions to the German minority.

Category: National symbols of the Czech Republic

The Bavarian Forest National Park () is a national park in the Eastern Bavarian Forest immediately on Germany's border with the Czech Republic.

The Czech National Museum produced a large exhibition about Wallenstein at the Wallenstein Palace in Prague ( current seat of Senate ) from 15 November 2007 till 15 February 2008.

Czech voters returned a split verdict in the June 2002 parliamentary elections, giving Social Democrats ( ČSSD ) and Communists majority, without any possibility to form a functioning government together due to Vladimír Špidla's strong anticommunism.

The newly created Social Democratic parties were generally larger and more powerful than the remaining communist parties ; only in Russia, Moldova, and the Czech Republic did the Communist Party remain a significant force.

* Czech Social Democratic Party

The amendment was consistent with what the Czech Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has identified as " the Czech government's policy principles regarding the resettlement of foreigners of Czech origin living abroad.

* Jiří Horák, 1st Chairman of Czech Social Democratic Party

International Women's Day was re-established as an official " important day " by the Parliament of the Czech Republic only recently, on the proposal of the Social Democrats and Communists.

The ODS lost the early elections in 1998 to the Czech Social Democratic Party ( ČSSD ).

After the Velvet revolution he entered local politics in the town of Jindřichův Hradec where he lived and immediately joined the re-founded Czech Social Democratic Party ( ČSSD, then called Czechoslovak Social Democracy ).

* Czech Social Democratic Party

* Czech National Social Party, a civic nationalist and moderate left-wing party known as the Czech National Socialist Party between 1926 and 1948.

Despite the enthusiasm shown by prominent leaders like Jiří Čunek ( Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People's Party ) and Jiří Paroubek ( Czech Social Democratic Party ), the ruling Civic Democratic Party under both President Václav Klaus and Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek is more skeptical.

Its government, installed at Košice on April 4 and moved to Prague in May, was a National Front coalition in which three socialist parties -- KSČ, Czechoslovak Social democratic Party, and Czech National Social Party -- predominated.

* In Czech Republic, the centre-left Czech Social Democratic Party changed its official colour in 2006 from red to orange.

The Czech Social Democratic Party (, ČSSD ) is a social-democratic political party in the Czech Republic.

In 1948, after the Communist Party assumed the parliamentary majority, the Czech Social Democratic Party was abolished along with all other non-communist parties.

* 1938 – 1941 The National Labor Party ( Národní strana práce ) – united left party of Social Democrats and part of Czech National Social Party

* since 1993 Czech Social Democratic Party ( Česká strana sociálně demokratická )

The Czech political scene supports a broad spectrum of parties ranging from Communist Party on the far left to various nationalistic parties on the far right.

Meanwhile the parties in the ED subgroup were growing restless and finally left following the 2009 elections, when the Czech Civic Democratic Party and United Kingdom Conservatives formed their own European Conservatives and Reformists group on 22 June 2009, abolishing the ED subgroup from that date.

The hope that multiple Central and European parties would join ED also proved to be dubious, as only the Czech Civic Democratic Party took up the offer, with the remainder joining EPP proper or other groups such as Union for Europe of the Nations or Independence and Democracy.

When anti-German demonstrations erupted in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the Comintern ordered the Czech Communist Party to employ all of its strength to paralyze " chauvinist elements.

In elections held in June 1992, Václav Klaus's Civic Democratic Party won in the Czech lands on a platform of economic reform, and Vladimír Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia ( HZDS ) emerged as the leading party in Slovakia, basing its appeal on the fairness of Slovak demands for autonomy.

Cameron attended a gathering at Warsaw's Palladium cinema celebrating the foundation of the new alliance ; also present were Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of PiS, and Mirek Topolánek, leader of the Civic Democratic Party ( ODS ) in the Czech Republic.

* February 25 – The Communist Party seizes control of Czechoslovakia, a day celebrated by that regime as " Victorious February " ( Czech :" Vítězný únor "; Slovak :" Víťazný Február ") until November 1989.

In the Czech Republic, the Green Party was part of the governing coalition, together with the Civic Democrats ( ODS ) and the Christian Democrats ( KDU – ČSL ) from January 2007 until the government collapsed in March 2009.

* Czech Royalist Party

* Czech Monarchist Party

The existence of the centuries-old Serb or Serbian diaspora in countries such as Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine, is the result of historical circumstances – the migrations to the North and the East, due to the Turkish conquests of the Balkans and as a result of politics, especially when the Communist Party came into power, but even more when the communist state of Yugoslavia collapsed into inter-ethnic conflict, resulting in mass expulsions of people as refugees of war.

The winners of the June 1992 elections in Czechoslovakia and new prime ministers were the Civic Democratic Party led by Václav Klaus in the Czech Republic and the HZDS led by Vladimír Mečiar in Slovakia.

Masaryk served in the Reichsrat ( Austrian Parliament ) from 1891 to 1893 in the Young Czech Party and again from 1907 to 1914 in the Realist Party, but he did not campaign for the independence of Czechs and Slovaks from Austria-Hungary.

Dominated by student and other popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, it saw to the collapse of the party's control of the country, and the subsequent conversion from Czech socialism to parliamentary republic .< ref >

* Conservative Party ( Czech )

* Green Party ( Czech Republic )

An economist, Klaus was the principal co-founder of the Civic Democratic Party, the Czech Republic's largest center-right political party.

Klaus was then principal co-founder of the Civic Democratic Party ( ODS ), the Czech Republic's largest center-right political party.

This was a precondition demanded by several Czech political parties after the last experience, but long opposed by Klaus ' Civic Democratic Party which had strengthened since 2003, already had the safe majority in the Senate even by itself and needed only to secure a few votes in the House for the third round.