Alena Škodová

A poet, writer, journalist, fast and merciless polemist but also an outstanding dancer, ironical skeptic and lonely hypochondriac - all this can characterize Jan Neruda…

This year it was for the third time that the United Nations' World Refugee Day was commemorated. The plight of millions refugees in the world is the theme of an exhibition…

All the Czech newspapers today report on the conclusion of negotiations on the formation of a new cabinet. The papers write that now a battle over who will have which…

All the Czech newspapers today carry photos from Monday's plane crash in southern Germany, in which 71 passengers, mostly Russian children going on holiday in Spain, died…

The Japanese imperial couple - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko - will arrive in Prague for a three day unofficial visit this coming weekend. This is the very first…

July the 1st does not only mark the beginning of school holidays in the Czech Republic, but in several laws and regulations changes have been made that will affect most…

Have you ever been on a slimming diet? I have, many times, and sometimes my efforts were successful. As I'm growing older, I stopped caring too much. I'm not obese, but I…

Members of one of the two expert teams trying to form a new coalition cabinet have come up with the idea that the parliamentary committee that controls bugging by the…

On Tuesday, the Czech Minister of Culture, Pavel Dostal, returned a 17th century painting called Man in a Fur Cap to the French authorities. The picture had belonged to…