Jan Richter

The life of Arnost Lustig (81) is like an excursion through modern Czech history. The internationally renowned author of novels such as Dita Saxova, A Prayer for Katherine…

On Wednesday night, Slavia Prague, one of the oldest and most successful Czech football clubs, beat Ajax Amsterdam 2:1 in the second leg of the third - and final …

Beer is one of the most enduring symbols of the Czech Republic, with Czechs drinking more per head than any other nation and exports growing all the time. And it seems the…

Coalition forces in Iraq have come across insurgents wearing Czech-made bullet-proof vests. American authorities suspected that illegal shipments of military equipment…

On August 21 1968, people woke up to discover that the dream of freedom they were living in the late 1960s had turned into a nightmare. Thirty-nine years ago, the streets…

The second half of the 1960s in Czechoslovakia was a time of change. Things were happening that had not been seen, or even heard of, for almost two decades, since the…