History
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Speculation over Rembrandt painting: is the old man Jan Amos Comenius?
Millions of people have admired it at the Uffizi Art Gallery in Florence. Now, Rembrandt's painting of an old man has acquired a new significance for Czechs. According to…
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Husband & wife team airs new documentary about mysterious Incan stones in Peru
Vladimir Simek and Kamila Broulova-Simkova are a well-known husband & wife team that has been making TV documentaries in different parts of the world - from Baikal, Russia…
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World War II fighter ace Frantisek Perina honoured on occasion of 95th birthday
This week is a special one for the Czech military and Czechs remembering the events of the Second World War: Frantisek Perina celebrates his 95th birthday on April 8th…
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International conference held in Senate to discuss 1915 Armenian "genocide"
An international panel of academics and politicians met in the Czech Senate on Tuesday to discuss the mass killings of Armenian civilians in the Ottoman Empire between…
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Major General Karel Lukas: The first victim of the Communist purges of 1948
February 1948 brought great political change in Czechoslovakia. On the 25th of that month, the Communist Party took power and declared the country a "people's democracy…
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Foundation for Holocaust Victims announces conclusion of compensation programme
Czech Jews who lost their property during WWII have finally received compensation from the Czech state. In the course of five years, the Foundation for Holocaust Victims…
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Jaroslava Moserova - politician, doctor, writer and translator - dies aged 76
The veteran politician, doctor and literary translator Jaroslava Moserova passed away in the early hours of Friday morning after a long illness. She was 76. Jaroslava…
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Czechs and Rusyns: the ties that bind
National anthems are not just reserved for peoples with a state of their own. What you heard there is the national anthem of Subcarpathian Rusyns—or Ruthenians, as they…
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Remains of 4,000 German war dead stored in crates in Usti factory
The Czech media made a grisly discovery last week - the exhumed remains of some four thousand German soldiers are being stored in a factory in North Bohemia. The remains…
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Breakthrough in the investigation of WWII massacre in Velke Mezirici
As the Second World War came to an end in 1945, numerous atrocities were committed in towns across Czechoslovakia, as the Czech people rose up against Nazi occupation…
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Tabor - a labyrinth of antiquity
An hour and a half's journey south of Prague lies the medieval Hussite town of Tabor. On first arrival, as you step out onto a busy square from the packed train station…
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Czech Republic marks Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Day
March 7th is Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Day in the Czech Republic. It's a day which marks the birthday of Czechoslovakia's first president, and gives many a chance to remember…
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