Alena Škodová

From time to time each of us encounters a problem which we don't know how to handle and there's no one at hand we can ask. But not everyone knows that they can get the…

There are three main stories that make the headlines in all the Czech newspapers today: the establishment of the NATO-Russia Council in Rome, Jan Kasl's resignation from…

"All our steps must be led by a love for our nation, and taken to ensure its happiness." That was the life-long motto of Josef Kajetan Tyl, playwright, actor and writer…

The Prague Spring international music festival has entered its third - and last - week, and on Sunday, the Smetana Hall at the Art-Nouveau Municipal House in Prague hosted…

As part of the programme of the Prague Spring international music festival currently underway in the Czech capital, the State Opera in Prague has presented the world…

The Tugendhat villa in the Czech Republic's second city of Brno was added to the UNESCO list of cultural heritage sites in December last year. The building is in desperate…

On Wednesday, a new memorial to victims of the Communist regime was unveiled in Prague's Lesser Town under Petrin hill. But the unveiling of the new memorial was…

We're nearly half way through the Prague Spring international music festival and classical music lovers have already heard a number of musicians from around the world. One…

All of Tuesday's Czech newspapers carry photographs of the same two figures. The first is Vaclav Klaus, whose Civic Democratic Party has launched the final stage of its…

At a weekend rally of the biggest Sudeten German organisation, the Landsmannschaft, in Nuremberg, the Bavarian Prime Minister and conservative candidate for the post of…