Jan Velinger

The Czech Republic’s longest-ever recession has come to an end. Preliminary figures just released by the Czech Statistics Office show that the economy grew by 0.7 percent…

The Civic Democratic Party (or ODS) has been the dominant political party on the centre-right throughout its 22-year history. But over the last few years, its position…

In a week and a half's time, Czech MPs will vote on whether to dissolve the lower house with the aim of setting up early elections. Four parties capable of putting…

Only a few days ago the head of the Social Democratic Party Bohuslav Sobotka was resolute that the caretaker government – more or less handpicked by the president – should…

Last week’s sacking of Jan Burian as head of the National Theatre and subsequent backtracking is a situation which has not been fully resolved. Although Mr Burian agreed…

In this edition of In Focus: extreme high diver Michal Navrátil talks about his sport including his recent trademark jump at the Worlds. If you are afraid of heights…

Welcome to another edition of SoundCzech. In today's edition we look at at expressions using the word 'líný' or ‘línej’(informal) - featured in the song Jsem tak línej by…