Jan Richter

People in Prague sometimes sneer at the country’s second largest city, Brno, for notoriously lagging behind the Czech capital. The good people of Brno are accused of…

The upper house of the Czech parliament has voted to ratify the EU’s Lisbon treaty, finalizing the parliamentary ratification of the document. But one major obstacle…

The Czech Senate approved the Lisbon treaty in a vote on Wednesday afternoon, some two months after the document was ratified by the lower house of Parliament. The Czech…

The historic Moravian town of Třebíč, some 140 km south east of Prague, is known for having perhaps the best preserved Jewish quarter in the country. In 2003, the town’s…

Around 2,500 Romanies took to the streets in 13 towns and cities around the Czech Republic on Sunday to protest against the growing threat of racism and extremism. In…

The Romanies, or Roma, are the Czech Republic’s biggest minority. The relations between Roma and the majority population have long been troubled but recently took a turn…

If you happen to have travelled between Prague and Brno on the D1 motorway in recent years, you might have wondered why those large yellow buses running between the two…