Alena Škodová

A permanent International Criminal Court - the ICC - to try crimes against humanity became a reality earlier this week after several more countries ratified the treaty…

A festival of blues music will be held on the last weekend of May in Revnice near Prague. The festival is being held for the third time this year, and it's becoming more…

Last week, a legend of modern Czech sculpture, Karel Nepras, died of a stroke in a Prague hospital. It seems like a trick of fate that a man who had always mocked absurd…

The Czech scout organization, Junak, is currently celebrating 90 years of its existence. Last Saturday, Junak clubrooms throughout the country held an open day to let…

On Thursday, an American stuntman was killed during the filming of a Hollywood movie called Triple X in Prague. In recent years, locations in Prague and the Czech Republic…

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…

Today's personality in Czechs in History is Jan Kupecky, an outstanding Czech painter from the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, often called the Master of Baroque…

In unprecedented verdicts, two courts - one in Prague and the other in Hradec Kralove - sentenced two neo-Nazi skinheads to seven and thirteen years in prison respectively…

I bet I went to the very first Easter event that took place in Prague this year. It was held two weeks ago at Toulcuv dvur - or the Toulec farmstead - in the Prague 10…

The stately "Narodni Dùm" building in Prague's Vinohrady district resounded with accordions at the weekend, as the second annual European accordion festival got underway…