Jan Richter

US President Barack Obama has nominated Norman Eisen, a lawyer and the president’s advisor on ethics, as the new ambassador to the Czech Republic. The Czech Foreign…

Authorities in Central Bohemia have come up with an unconventional remedy to improve the state of local roads. They’ve put the names and cell phone numbers of staff…

One of the best known Czech visual artists, the Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha, was born in July 1860. To mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, the Mucha Foundation…

Foreign film producers have good reason to return to Prague. Once a thriving filming location, the Czech Republic lost out to competition from Hungary, Romania and other…

How did communist propaganda brainwash people? What were the most frequent words used in the communist press? And was it at all possible to learn any real news from the…

Czech health care is once again in the spotlight, after the country’s Medical Chamber called on hospital physicians to quit their jobs by the end of the year if they don’t…

Three weeks after general elections, three centre-right parties are still holding talks on forming a coalition government. On Friday, the leader of the strongest party…

The Czech pension system is to undergo a major overhaul in the coming years. On Wednesday, government appointed experts unveiled a pension reform draft that would enhance…

Negotiators for three Czech political parties holding talks on forming the country’s next government have agreed on introducing tuition fees for the first time at public…