Jan Richter

In Sports News: Czech first football division has started with Czech international Vladimir Smicer coming back to Slavia after 11 years and one of the two newcomers from…

The Czech Army has started rotating troops deployed as part of NATO's ISAF mission in Afghanistan. Medical staff for the Czech field hospital flew in Kabul at the end of…

For thirty years, the most popular hard drug in the Czech Republic has been the Czech-made methamphetamine pervitin. Recently, however, the Czech anti-drug authorities…

You have seen them driving around, you may have even driven them. First produced in 1987, the Skoda Favorit has just celebrated its 20th anniversary. Although it is one of…

Jiri Sedivy has just been named NATO's Assistant Secretary General. The former Czech defence minister and current deputy minister of European affairs will be moving to…

There have been gloomy reports recently about the inability of the Czech tourism industry to attract visitors to Prague and elsewhere in the country for a second, third or…

A large retrospective exhibition of the works by Jan Zrzavy is currently being held at Prague's Waldstein Riding School. Although his work attracts large crowds of Czech…

In the early 1990s, when western tourists started flowing into the country after the fall of communism, some local establishments came up with their own method of leveling…

For the first six months of 2009, the Czech Republic will be the second new EU member after Slovenia to hold the rotating presidency of the European Union. But that may…