Jan Velinger

Listeners of "Czech Books" will perhaps already be familiar with Jan's guest in today's One on One - David C. Murphy who works at one of Prague's prominent NGOs Nova Skola…

NATO Secretary General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer was originally supposed to spend a whole day in the Czech Republic on Thursday, meeting the country's top officials and taking…

The KFOR battalion is not the first Czech involvement in Kosovo after the war. Czech NGOs, such as "The People in Need Foundation" and Adra, participated in restoring…

Once again topics dominating the front pages include the war on - and the prevention of - terrorism with both Mlada Fronta Dnes and Lidove Noviny describing the latest…

There is a wide mix of stories that top the headlines in Thursday's Czech dailies - among them reaction to Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez's inflammatory statements on…

Poet, writer, and journalist, Jan Neruda has long been recognised as one of the outstanding figures of 19th century Czech literature, an author who mastered the art of the…

One of the small pleasures of living in the Czech Republic as a "foreigner" is noticing well-intended but ultimately hilarious attempts at word-for-word translation from…

This Friday is the 5th anniversary of the expansion of NATO that brought former Warsaw Pact countries Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic into the organisation's fold…