Alena Škodová

Since December 7th Prague has been hosting the Bohuslav Martinu Music Festival, named after the famous 20th century Czech composer. For the next two weeks, several concert…

Advent is a time when most Christmas exhibitions open throughout the Czech Republic to make people stop in the pre-Christmas hustle and bustle and think about the…

Accession talks with the European Union are continuing successfully, and if everything goes well, the Czech Republic will become an EU member in spring 2004. Although we…

The "Salvage of Cultural Heritage" is a project whose main objective is to seek and preserve significant works by our famous predecessors which are important for our time…

All the Czech newspapers today cover two main stories on their front pages: they feature a photo of a man in a pig mask illustrating reports on Wednesday's protest…

According to the Minister of Information Technology, Vladimir Mlynar, the Czech Postal Service should enable all citizens to have access to the Internet at post offices…

Two pedestrians - one of them a 4-year-old boy - were knocked down and killed last weekend. The shocking thing is that in both cases the drivers were police officers. What…

39 year old Pavel Bem was elected as Prague's new mayor on Thursday. In a secret ballot he received 38 out of 70 votes and became the 6th mayor of Prague since the…

Those of you who are film buffs surely know the American film from the 1980s, 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons. It was directed by…

With a presidential election fast approaching, the governing Social Democratic party has been holding a public vote on which candidate the party should propose for the…