David Vaughan

Arnost Lustig is unquestionably one of the great post-war Czech writers. His novels and stories are known the world over and have been translated into dozens of languages…

One of the enduring images of last month's floods was the site of a wooden sculpture, a giant chair that had adorned the terrace of the Sovovy Mlyny Gallery in Prague…

The classic image of the piano virtuoso is of a dishevelled eccentric, devoted only to his music and detached from the concerns of everyday life. But the 36-year-old…

If you don't know anything about the Visegrad Group and which countries it represents, you can be forgiven. When I asked people in the streets around the radio building…

Until three weeks ago the Museum of Central Bohemia was one of the most interesting and dynamic smaller museums in the Czech Republic. Housed in the little town of…

Jan Tomsky was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in the little Czech town of Dobruska in 1920. As a young man he survived the Second World War in the shelter of a…

The European Union's Commissioner for Enlargement, Gunter Verheugen, gave the Czech government reasons to be satisfied on Thursday, when he said that to all intents and…

The people of the small town of Neratovice, just a few kilometres north of Prague have had a frightening few days. Not only was the town seriously affected by the huge…

Petra Francova grew up in a Czech military family, in the days of the Cold War. This may seem an unlikely beginning for someone who has since spent much of her life…

The old town of Pisek, eighty kilometres south of Prague, was in the front line of last week's floods. Only as the mopping up operation begins has it become clear quite…