Ideas about democracy can be different. Just as there was once a difference between socialism and "real socialism", there may also be quite a significant difference between democracy and "real democracy". In this case, the Ukrainian one, about which Adéla Knapová wrote the article "No one will take away democracy from Ukrainians" (Právo, August 1, 2026).
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Jan Schneider
Security analyst and columnist
Havlíčkův Brod
As a railway worker, he added his signature to Charter 77 in December 1976. He collaborated with Egon Bondy and with the group The Plastic People of the Universe. Long-term study in the religious residential seminary of prof. Milan Balabán graduated in 1993 with a Cambridge Certificate in Religious Studies. From 1990 he worked in the intelligence, police and government services, among other things he was the director of the Office of the Government Council of the Czech Republic for intelligence activities.
8 published articles
The BIS intelligence service needs to be "dekoudelized" after the imminent departure of its chief, Michal Koudelka. Jan Schneider, a former employee of the secret services and the Government Office, signatory of Charter 77, told ParlamentníListům.cz. He listed everything that, according to him, the BIS had betrayed its mission under the outgoing director: leaks to journalists, the Vrbětice case, the ricin case or the current case of a Chinese journalist.
Read full textLet's take a closer look at the problem of the "leadership role" of the president in relation to the government.
Read full textAn interview with Petr Kojzar (iportal24.cz) about the SdL convention in Brno, about the questionable representation of the state by President Petr Pavlo, about his possible opponents in the next presidential election, about double standards in international politics, about the development of armed conflicts, about senselessly binding spending on armaments and who benefits from it, and finally about the media literacy course, organized by the Journalistic Praktikum association this summer in Havlíčková Brod.
Read full textQuestion: The House proposed Miloš Zeman for the award of the highest state award - the Order of the White Lion. This proposal sparked a debate again. Should or should the former president receive this award? Looking back, what was he actually like in the presidential position? What did he succeed and what didn't he succeed?
Read full textThe famous actor Pavel Landovský once risked "the favor of the state and the government" when he signed a call (Ch77) for the state to obey its own laws. It turned out that the state - again in violation of its own laws - first deprived him of the possibility of livelihood and finally drove him to emigrate. I think that Pavel Landovský would have a big problem with the fact that his son Jakub Landovský, on the contrary, actively assists when the state violates its own laws, profits from it and does not risk anything himself, because the government transfers the risk resulting from the violation of the law to the state's residents.
Read full textBrief recap including links to performances by Ivo Budil, Erik Best, Radim Panenka and many others
Read full textThe media, social networks and politicians try to get our attention and influence our opinions every day. How to keep your own judgment? How to recognize manipulation, verify information and write a text that stands up to the facts?
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