Jan Richter

The Czech Republic has been hit by major floods. A nationwide state of emergency has been declared as water levels on around two dozen rivers keep rising. Five people have…

A 1920s Prague villa built for the Czech writer Karel Čapek has been put up for sale, along with Čapek’s library, personal archive and some original furnishings. The owner…

Czech weapons producers are pushing for a change of the government’s system of approving arms exports. Sales of Czech-made weapons abroad last year rose by to nearly seven…

Around one-third of Czech 12- and 15-year-old children say they would never have a Roma friend, while 40 percent of them would take part in an anti-Roma rally in their…

Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas is on a four-day working visit to Russia. On Monday, Mr Nečas met the head of the Russian government, Dmitry Medvedev for talks on economic…

A Czech brewery is taking the country’s leading consumer magazine to court over tests which detected high levels of mould in one of its brews. The Svijany brewery…