Respekt
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| Frequency | Weekly |
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| First issue | 18 November 1989 |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Based in | Prague |
| Language | Czech |
| Website | respekt |
| ISSN | 0862-6545 |
Respekt (in English Respect) is a weekly newsmagazine published in Prague, the Czech Republic, reporting on domestic and foreign political and economic issues, as well as on science and culture.
Respekt was founded very soon after the fall of Communist party from power in 1989 by a group of samizdat journalists as one of the very first independent magazines. It is the successor of Informační servis (Information service), an opposition samizdat paper.Respekt is published weekly and has its headquarters in Prague. The New York Times describes Respekt as "influential."
Several people involved with Respekt became influential in top level politics of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic; among them the first editor-in-chief Jan Ruml who served as the Minister of Interior between 1992 and 1997, Martin Fendrych (official at the Ministry of Interior) and Vladimír Mlynář (several ministerial position).
Editors describe Respekt as "a liberal magazine which stands up for freedom of thought and the need of continuous questioning of its outcomes". The weekly concentrates on investigative journalism (often using information gleaned from police sources) and in-depth articles, and has been expanding to cover ecological activism and alternative culture movements in recent years.
It is published by R-Presse, the majority of whose shares are owned by Czech Minister of foreign affairs Karel Schwarzenberg, the remainder being held by a staff consortium.
In 2005 Respekt published details about business connection between Prime Minister Stanislav Gross' wife and a brothel owner, starting a scandal leading to downfall of Gross several months later; in 2008 it published an article alleging that Milan Kundera, when a student, denounced to the police a Czech spy for the West.
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