Jan Richter

Radio Free Iraq, part of Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, has begun broadcasting from the station’s new headquarters. Located on Hagibor Plain, on the…

The Czech government approved on Monday a set of measures to boost the country’s economy, ranging from lowering social insurance to higher spending on education, science…

A new exhibition on the legacy of Jan Ámos Komenský, usually known abroad as Comenius, opened in Prague on Wednesday. An accompanying event of the Czech presidency of the…

The head of the Czech Catholic Church, Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, has joined criticism of Pope Benedict XVI over his decision to lift the excommunication of several bishops…

A record number of jobs were lost around the Czech Republic in January, which saw the sharpest one-month rise in the unemployment rate in history. With 6.8 percent of the…

Czechs are reputed to be one of Europe’s most atheist nations. Yet in the course of its history, the nation has produced many outstanding religious thinkers, philosophers…

In this week’s business news: the Czech central bank predicts a recession; the country’s trade surplus plunged by a quarter in 2008; government unveils plans to boost the…