Jan Richter

It currently looks unlikely that Czech MPs will approve the Rusnok cabinet in a vote in the lower house in two weeks’ time. President Miloš Zeman has hinted that if it…

The summer tourist season is half way through, and the numbers suggest it will be a good one for the Czech travel industry. Despite the protracted economic recession, the…

The Czech authorities have seized 100 million crowns worth of rhino horns, the largest amount ever confiscated in the country. In total, 24 horns were confiscated which…

The largest Czech internet portal Seznam.cz has started work on a project to put panoramic views of every street, lane and alley in the country online. Entitled Panorama…

The finance minister in the new Czech interim government, Jan Fischer, has come under fire over his own financial record. Soon after he was linked with the post, Mr…

The band Docuku, based in the north-eastern town of Valašské Meziřící, rediscovers folk music of Moravia, Slovakia, Hungary as as well as Roma songs, and sometimes come up…

The 20th century saw scores of Czechs and Slovaks leaving their country to escape political oppression. After the communist takeover of 1948, some 40,000 people left and…