Jan Richter

The new centre-right coalition government has pledged to implement a series of reforms, reforms that could possibly put its stability to the test. That’s what president…

After several months of decline in the number of traffic accidents, the first two weeks of the summer holidays saw a spike in the number of casualties on Czech roads…

The start of the summer holidays has a profound effect on life in the Czech capital. Students go backpacking in the Middle East, families head for a seaside vacation in…

The lower house of Parliament failed on Friday to elect the new Czech ombudsman, a successor to the late Otakar Motejl who passed away in May. None of the four candidates…

One of the most significant composers of modern times, Gustav Mahler, was born on July 7, 1860, in a small village near the eastern town of Jihlava where he grew up. On…

Czech tennis player Tomáš Berdych came close to his first Grand Slam crown at Wimbledon as he faced world’s number one, Rafael Nadal, in Sunday’s final. But the Spaniard…

Hello, this is a fresh edition of SoundCzech, our signature series in which you can learn some interesting Czech phrases while listening to a song. Today, we‘ll hear the…

Opposed, later persecuted – and finally forgotten. That was the fate of many Czech Catholic writers, who stood outside the literary mainstream. In one of Europe’s most…