Jan Velinger

Two years ago when Mirek Topolanek was first elected to head the country's main opposition party, the right-of-centre Civic Democrats, he was an untried entity. Many…

December 1st marks World AIDS Day in the fight against AIDS, one of the world's deadliest diseases whose spread in parts of the world has reached epidemic proportions. 40…

No other Czech singer has dominated so solidly and for so long as Czech nightingale Karel Gott. At 65, Mr Gott remains enormously popular both in the Czech Republic and…

Fans of Czech literature will no doubt already be familiar with Jaroslav Hasek's early 20th century novel "The Good Soldier Svejk", a massive satirical tome in which the…

Ukrainians demonstrate in support of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko outside their country's embassy here in Prague, as the crisis following Ukraine's presidential…

Egypt's famous necropolis Abusir, near Saqqara, has been called the site of forgotten kings- a complex of pyramids dating back to the Old Kingdom: some two thousand years…

In this edition of Czechs in History we look at the life and work of Czech photographer Frantisek Drtikol, arguably one of the most important photographers of the early…

What in the world, you're probably wondering is that? What you're hearing is actually the sound of thousands of different domestic birds featured at the 28th European…