Jan Velinger

Over the weekend, following calls of support from party members from his constituency in Central Bohemia, Interior Minister and Social Democrat deputy chairman Stanislav…

All the papers lead with stories as varying as former environment minister Milos Kuzvart's appointment as the Czech Republic's first commissioner to the European Union…

Welcome to another edition of Czechs in History. Today we take you back to the 15th century: we'll be looking at the life of one of most famous and tragic figures of Czech…

These days almost everyone in public life has a webpage - and even highly controversial businessman Viktor Kozeny - the so-called Pirate of Prague - has proven no…

Czech scuba divers pulled what Czechs would call a "husarsky kousek" or neat trick -last week when - during reconstruction - they discovered an object beneath Prague's…

Prague is pretty progressive on most things but until recently lacked a venue providing a service long adored in other parts of the world - karaoke - that sublime form of…

As the Academy Awards loom the Czech Republic once again finds itself rooting for one of its own - Ondrej Trojan - the director of Zelary - who brought a cycle of stories…