David Vaughan

The new Czech foreign minister, Cyril Svoboda, has held his first meeting with the Task Force set up to plan the November NATO summit in Prague. Memories of the violent…

Alexander Dubcek is one of the myths in the post-war history of Czechoslovakia. Some see his attempt in 1968 to introduce "socialism with a human face" as a brave…

Prague's Cernin Palace witnessed a historic ceremony on Thursday when for the first time in history a treaty was signed between the Czech Republic and the Vatican…

I was recently involved in making a film about Lidice, the Czech village that the Nazis wiped off the map in June 1942. In the course of my research I met many people…

A few days ago - for the first time - Ruth Rulcova had the chance to meet the man who saved her life in 1939. In that strange time between the German occupation of Prague…

One of the most interesting events at the recent Karlovy Vary film festival was the premiere of a documentary film about Sir Nicholas Winton. He was the British diplomat…

Michaela Marksova-Tominova is the head of the Centre for Gender Studies in Prague and is one of the Czech Republic's foremost feminist academics. At the time of the fall…

With the communist takeover in 1948 Erazim Kohak left Czechoslovakia as a teenager. It was the beginning of over forty years of exile, during which Erazim Kohak became a…

The Japanese Emperor Akihito and his wife Michiko make it to the front pages of just about all today's Czech papers, with pictures from their tour of the sites of old…