Jan Velinger

With a month or so to go before Christmas, shoppers in the Czech Republic have begun hitting stores at a feverish pace – good news, of course, for retailers. The holidays…

Members of an expert team from Palacký University conducting research on the island of Borneo revealed recently they had uncovered a new species of plant belonging to the…

Přiběh kmotra (A Godfather’s Story) opened in Czech cinemas last month and has attracted both thriller fans and those who remember the turbulent 1990s, when Czech society…

Czech President Miloš Zeman has in the past suggested caustically that his day wouldn’t be complete if he didn’t insult at least one person. Well on Monday, the president…

This week saw the opening of a new exhibition in Prague by respected Czech photographer and filmmaker Martin Froyda entitled “New York Walker in Blizzard”. As the title…

A recent attempt by several top Social Democrats to oust party leader Bohuslav Sobotka has come full circle: on Friday it was they and not the chairman who stepped down…

It has been twenty years since the release of the Czech film Šakalí léta, director Jan Hřebejk's debut.

The Social Democratic Party has tried to get back on track, a week after the party’s poorer-than-expected result in the election opened a major rift. On Thursday, a number…