Ian Willoughby

The Czech government has approved a draft state budget for 2022 that envisages a considerably lower deficit than that proposed by their predecessors.

Jiří Menzel’s Larks on a String was completed in 1969. However it couldn't come out until 1990, when it won the Berlinale. Now it is going back to Berlin, in restored form.

Michal Krecul, today 98, was a Gulag survivor, decorated Czechoslovak WWII soldier and later political prisoner. A study shows he also took part in a gruesome mass murder.

The Czech minister of foreign affairs has started a two-day visit to Ukraine intended to show support for the Kyiv government in the face of strong Russian pressure.

A dispute between the Czech Republic and Poland over a mine on the Polish side of the border has been resolved at government level. But locals say they will lose out.

A new project aims to create a new 9,801 kilogramme bell for Prague – to commemorate thousands of church and tower bells stolen and melted down by the Nazis in 1942.

Among the Czech Republic’s Winter Olympics medal hopefuls is Ester Ledecká, whose unprecedented success was the biggest story four years ago.

As part of celebrations of the 75th anniversary of its foundation, Prague’s FAMU film school is making works by graduates, including some big names, available online.

There are reports the Czech government is pushing for a new US ambassador to Prague, over a year after the last one left. We spoke to an expert on Czech-US affairs. 

The Czech foreign minister, Jan Lipavský, says the country continues to back tough sanctions as the best means of reining in Moscow amid fears it will invade Ukraine.