Alena Škodová

By Alena Skodova

The Lower House recently passed a controversial law on hunting, which is strongly opposed both by land owners and environmentalists. In the following report, Alena Skodova…

Poet Jaroslav Seifert is the only Czech in history to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, receiving the award in 1984. But there were no celebrations in Czechoslovakia…

In a two-man show in one of Prague's theatres several years ago, a famous Czech actor asked his colleague if G. B. Shaw had lived a long life when he died at the age of…

Bedrich Smetana's cycle of symphonic poems "My Country" is one of the most famous pieces of Czech music. It is familiar in the Czech Republic and around the world. One of…

Tuesday's terrorist attacks against the United States have provoked worldwide reflection about how the world we live in is fragile and vulnerable. The speaker of the Lower…

TV and radio sets playing loud in restaurants and shops, crowds of people watching and listening, heated debates in the streets. Tuesday's unprecedented terrorist attacks…