Alena Škodová

Tuesday saw a celebration at the Spiritka villa in Prague when the Minister of the Interior, Stanislav Gross presented the Policemen of the Year award for 2001. Alena…

Twelve years of discussion on what to do with the former communist StB secret police files is very close to an end. The lower house has passed a bill allowing for almost…

The experimental Archa Theatre in Prague has organized a very special event to welcome the Chinese New Year, the Year of Horse, to begin on February 11th. February 11th is…

Social Democrat and Communist MPs in the lower house of parliament succeeded on Wednesday in passing a bill under which child benefits are to be paid to all families, poor…

By Alena Skodova Today's subject in Czechs in History is Max Svabinsky, a remarkable personality in the history of Czech painting in the first half of the 20th century…

The Benes Decrees are again in the news. The decrees, which sanctioned the mass expulsion of ethnic Germans from post-war Czechoslovakia, are now becoming a prominent…

Thursday is the 40th anniversary of the death of Vlasta Burian, the most famous Czech actor of the 1930s and 1940s and a man known to Czechs as "The King of Comedians…

If you're caught fishing without a permit or refuse to take a breath-test when you're stopped by the police, you might find yourself in for a shock. The Lower House of…