Alena Škodová

One of the legends of Czech film, the actor Vlastimil Brodsky, died on Saturday at the age of 81. He was loved by three generations of Czechs, and, as Alena Skodova…

On Thursday Prime Minister Milos Zeman visited Belarus, the last dictatorial regime in Europe, not as the Czech Prime Minister but as the head of the Socialist…

Starting in mid-May, Prague Castle will begin hosting an exhibition of political art, called Politik-Um/New Engagement. But as Alena Skodova reports politically engaged…

Enrique Stanko Vraz is a traveler who has won a place Czech people's memory, which is proved by the fact that when his books were published in the 1980s, readers of all…

If you want access to an official document in the Czech Republic it is your right, thanks to a law that was passed in 1999. Officially at least, the days of faceless…

On June 10, 1942, the village of Lidice West of Prague was razed to the ground by the Nazis in revenge for the assassination of the German Reich's protector Reinhardt…

The housing situation in the Czech Republic has long been a painful issue with no viable solution in sight. Over the past few years, Czech governments have come up with…

To teach us how rotten capitalism was, the Communist authorities never failed to inform us about all shooting accidents in the west in which a madman shot dead a whole…

Since 1967 April 2nd has been the International Day of Children's Books. On that day in 1805, the world-famous Danish fairy-tale writer Hans Christian Andersen was born…

A concert given last week by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra at Prague's Rudolfinum featured two British artists - conductor Jonathan Darlington and soprano singer…