UN votes to back Palestinian membership, prompting Israeli envoy to shred charter
(www.theguardian.com)
Certainly wish there would be more of something in between Charles IV era and XX century, at least among something known and popular.
I myself am Russian, and know a bit of Interslavic (and learned a bit of basic Czech while there), so hopes are we'd figure communication out without English should we need to :D
At least I managed it with some Czechs (and also Slovaks) who don't speak English in Prague. Btw, I don't know what makes the difference, exactly, but I can better understand Slovaks, even though languages should be nearly identical.