Jan Velinger

A rare collection of stamps bearing the likeness of French Emperor Napoleon has gone on exhibit at the Slavkov (or Austerlitz) Chateau on the anniversary of the Battle of…

The Story of Prague Castle is a permanent exhibition at Prague’s most famous site, covering its magnificent thousand-year history – from its architecture to the lives of…

The European Union marked its first-ever European Antibiotic Awareness Day on Tuesday, part of a campaign to tackle the over-prescription of antibiotics. The Czech…

On Monday the Czech Republic witnessed some of its worst street violence in recent memory when hundreds of right-wing extremists in the north Bohemian town of Litvínov…

Czech-born British author and journalist Benjamin Kuras was one of many expatriates who witnessed the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia from abroad. Ahead of autumn 1989…

The new criminal code passed by the lower house this week has come under fire from many of the country’s sex therapists for one simple reason: lowering criminal…

On Wednesday the Czech government unveiled the new logo representing the country during its EU presidency, which its takes up for a six-month period on January 1. The logo…

An historic moment: that is how Justice Minister Jiří Pospíšil described a vote in the lower house on Tuesday approving the country’s new criminal code, which will fully…

The renowned Czech geologist Josef Sekyra – the first Czech to reach the South Pole – has died at the age of 80. In December 1969, Sekyra was part of the American…