Brian Kenety

Finance Minister Alena Schillerová is proposing cheaper tampons and sanitary pads for all, free period products for those in lowest income brackets.

With anti-coronavirus restrictions easing, schoolchildren are gradually returning to the classroom. Online learning has proved especially challenging for foreign children.

Galleries have had to close their doors , but many continue to organise virtual exhibitions. Among the most ambitious on offer (virtually) is dedicated to  Rembrandt.

The thriller about cyberbullying won an international Emmy for best short-form series. The Czech production was the first ever nominated for the prestigious TV award. 

Retired Prague archivist and chronicler Antonín Ederer has been called in to lend his expertise to a project explaining how streets in the historic centre got their names.

When plague ravaged Prague in 1713, Christian authorities designed drastic measures to limit its spread, many of which targeted the Jewish ghetto.

Due to the coronavirus, much of this year’s celebrations will be streamed online from Wenceslas Square. People can also light candles, indirectly, thanks to volunteers.

Significant investments to move away from coal use will pay off in the long run, according to a study of possible paths to decarbonisation by the consultancy McKinsey.

An archaeological survey in Liberec has revealed remains of an internment camp for Roma during WWII that later held French prisoners, forced to work in a quarry.

The idea for The Joke came to Milan Kundera after hearing of a girl jailed for stealing cemetery flowers. He imagined a life with sexuality and love tragically discrete.