Brian Kenety

Believing culture to be the Czech Republic’s first ambassador, the ministers of foreign affairs and culture are working together to develop a vibrant “cultural diplomacy”. 

Despite a sudden uptick in coronavirus cases nationwide, Prague is the only Czech region deemed an “orange” (medium-risk) zone under the national traffic light map system.

For nearly two decades now, Debashish Chaudhuri has called Bohemia his home, while working with orchestras, both Czech and international, as a freelance or guest conductor.

Most foreigners at Czech universities are happy with their programmes, professors and the quality of life here, according to a survey of over 10,000 international students.

In November 1989, Václav Havel was a dissident playwright whose works hadn't been staged in Czechoslovakia since the Soviet occupation. We look back at his literary legacy.

Film Studies lecturer Adam Whybray has written a history of Czech animation focusing not only on the craft bu in the oft hidden, ambiguous or subversive messages therein.

Senate speaker Miloš Vystrčil is headed to Taiwan with a delegation of businessmen, academics and fellow lawmakers, despite protest from China and talk of resprisals.

Tending to graves is considered a mitzvah – a good deed – among observant Jews. With few from the once-thriving communities left, volunteers in Dobruška step in to help.

Col. Zuzana Kročová is the first woman to lead the University of Defence. The freshly minted rector soon will also become the second female Czech Army general.

Czechoslovakia created a railway network to modernize infrastructure and forge a national identity. The culmination was the ‘Slovak bullet’, now being restored to glory.