David Vaughan

This Sunday is the 56th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. To mark the event there will be a special concert in the Kennedy Center of the…

With the safety of Temelin in the headlines, there is a certain irony in the fact that this Thursday is the fifteenth anniversary of the most serious nuclear accident in…

If you listen to debates in the Czech parliament, you will probably conclude that public speaking is not a Czech speciality. But things may be changing. A nationwide…

For the first time in history an Albanian President is on a state visit to the Czech Republic. After decades of hardline rule in Albania, followed by a period of anarchy…

The Prague International Writers's Festival is in full swing. On Wednesday there was a chance to meet and talk to one of the most important living Czech writers, Arnost…

For a few days last September the Czech capital was the focus of international media attention as world financiers gathered for the annual meeting of the IMF and the World…

The legendary mediaeval war between men and women - that is said to have taken place just outside today's Prague - is one of the central myths in the Czech national…

"Towards the Volcano" - that's the name of a street near where I live. In fact, to call it a street is something of a compliment. It is just a short road lined by a…

One of the world's foremost scholars of 20th century Czech and Slovak history, Gordon Skilling, died peacefully at the age of 89 in Toronto over the weekend. David Vaughan…