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Published 23 April 2018 at 2756 × 3674 in A Walk Through Prague’s ‘Little Moscow’

A list of companies in front of a villa at Na Zátorce 9 in Bubenec, Prague.

The sign at Na Zátorce 9, a villa which once belonged to former Czech President Edvard Beneš (1884-1948) and his wife, Hana. Apparently, there’s a wine-importer here now as well as the seat of a far-right political group called ‘Order of the Nation’ (Hnutí Řád Národa). Photo by Mark Baker.

Street sign at Na Zátorce 9, former villa of former Czech President Edvard Beneš, in Russian area of Little Moscow, Prague, Bubeneč, which now houses far-right political group Order of the Nation, Hnutí Řád Národa.

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