Ian Willoughby

Russia’s war on Ukraine is new in that it is also a fight against gender and sexual equalities. That is the thesis of a recent paper by Petr Kratochvíl and Míla O’Sullivan.

Jindřiška Bláhová, editor of a new book looking at the history of Karlovy Vary film festival pre-1989, shares fascinating insights into the event in the Cold War era.

Heathens, a new Czech film out next week, centres on the play of the same name by Hanna Yablonska, a young Ukraine-born playwright killed in a suicide bombing in Moscow.

Could a win for Robert Fico's pro-Russian Smer party in Slovakia leave Czechia isolated as a pro-Ukraine, pro-EU state in the region?

Practically half of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's history took place in the Cold War era – and that is the subject of a new book edited by Jindřiška Bláhová.

Pardubice’s Automatic Mills (Automatické mlýny) building – designed by great Czech architect Josef Gočár – has just been reopened after major renovations.

Foreign policy expert Benjamin Tallis on neo-idealism, and why the term applies to Jan Lipavský, and what the Ukraine crisis means for the future of the EU.

Czechia’s premier event in its field, Designblok, is about to take place for the 25th time. It runs from October 4 to 8 at a number of top venues, including Prague Castle.

Opera singer Adam Plachetka has teamed up with jazz and swing specialist Ondřej Havelka and his band Melody Makers on a new CD of interwar classics.

In his book To Ukraine With Love Benjamin Tallis identifies a "neo-idealist" approach to foreign affairs seen in, among others, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský.