Jan Richter

For many Czechs, the eastern Bohemian town of Dobruška evokes the Czech National Revival, a time when the Czech language was on the verge of extinction. A local merchant…

The Moravian city of Brno might soon see its main train station move out of city centre. Brno’s central district recently issued a planning permit for the controversial…

Jakub Patočka is the editor-in-chief of an online magazine called Deník Referendum, and a leading Czech left-leaning journalist. He made national headlines at the end of…

Curbing corruption was one of the promises made by the new centre-right Czech government appointed last week by President Václav Klaus. But its anti-corruption drive has…

The Battle of Grunwald, where 600 years ago the Polish and Lithuanian armies defeated the mighty order of the Teutonic Knights, changed the map of central Europe. The…

Children of Stalinism is the title of a series of documentary films about the often harrowing experiences of daughters of political prisoners in 1950s Czechoslovakia. It…

Czech scientists have come up with an interesting theory about the relation between a man's character and the colour of his eyes. According to the study which appeared in…