Alena Škodová

To compensate damages caused by recent severe floods in the Czech Republic, the cabinet is considering to temporarily increase income tax for the rich. All those who…

All the Czech newspapers today - as the case has been for the last two weeks - inform readers about the implications of the recent devastating floods, and new facts are…

On Sunday evening, Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla addressed the nation in a live broadcast from government headquarters in Prague. Mr Spidla said the recent floods had…

The North Bohemian city of Usti nad Labem has always been known for its chemical industry. But historians from the local museum seem to have turned their back on…

Since 1995, Miroslav Bobek, his colleague Frantisek Pojar and several other Czech naturalists have been carrying out projects of tracing storks and mapping out routes they…

It isn't often that a 90-year-old photograph causes a sensation, especially when all it seems to depict is a large block of ice. But that is just what has happened in the…

On Friday evening an officer working for the transport police at Prague's metro, paid with his life, after trying to protect passengers against a man who was throwing fire…

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Jan Kollar, a Slovak poet - and in fact the first big poet of modern Slovak literature - priest and diligent promoter…

Last weekend, the administration of the Lysice chateau in South Moravia organized for the first time night-time guided tours of the chateau. More that 550 tourists could…