Jan Richter

More than half of Czech households keep a pet, a new survey by the Focus research agency has found out. The most popular animals Czechs keep at home are – not surprisingly…

A far-left Czech grouping, the Communist Youth Union, faces a criminal complaint over a report on the Katyn massacre posted on its website. The report, compiled by the…

The lower house of Parliament has elected lawyer Pavel Varvařovský the new Czech ombudsman. The former Constitutional Court judge, who was nominated by the right-of-centre…

In the early 1990s, Prague was in the spotlight of international media with scores of foreign correspondents reporting on developments in free Czechoslovakia. Since then…

The central Bohemian town of Kolín, some 60 km east of Prague, was the scene of an unusual ceremony on Sunday. Local enthusiasts unveiled a memorial to two cartoon…

The Czech Environment Ministry dismissed on Friday criticism voiced by a number of Czech NGOs over an environmental impact report for the construction of two new blocks at…

A Brno court on Tuesday sentenced a former police officer to three and a half years in prison for a brutal assault on a Vietnamese national which took place in January…

A court in Brno did not find enough evidence on Tuesday to convict a man dubbed “the King of Poachers”. The man, who had more than 1,300 hunting trophies in his home…