Jan Velinger

Over the last seventeen years Czechs have gotten increasingly used to fast food and now many accept everything from hamburgers to hot dogs to pizza as part of their…

Archaeologists from the Museum of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice have been putting together a project to explore an underground level of the famous Cistercian monastery…

Last week the government passed a proposal which could see some 150 Czech soldiers, along with civilian specialists, operate in the province of Logar, south of Kabul…

US plans to build parts of its global anti-missile defence system in the Czech Republic and Poland are continuing to strain relations with America's old cold war foe…

On Tuesday officials from the Czech foreign and defence ministries met for talks with Russian representatives in Moscow, including the Chief of the General Staff, General…

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to interview extreme mountain biker Jan Kopka for Radio Prague's Czechs Today [25.04.2007], only weeks after the rider had won the…

Negotiations on fiscal reforms by the government involving the leaders of the three coalition parties lasted well into Tuesday night but at the end of them Prime Minister…

Next year will see presidential elections in the Czech Republic: at the moment it is not clear how many candidates will challenge incumbent president Vaclav Klaus, who has…