Jan Velinger

The Czech government has taken an important step in helping the country's troubled health insurers, including the largest Vseobecna Zdravotni Pojistovna, the VZP, by…

A vibrant mix of stories in today's Czech dailies, not least U.S. President Bush's visit to Great Britain - PRAVO writes that London has been transformed into a fortress…

In this edition of One on One Jan's guest is Hana Kulhankova, a specialist in American avant garde and experimental cinema, and a fifth year major at Brno's Masaryk…

Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the Champs Elysees in Paris, London's Oxord street - these and other swanky avenues regularly finish at the top of a survey called Main Streets…

Today's Czech dailies all take note of the latest tragedy in Iraq - 18 Italian soldiers killed in the town of Nasiriya when a bomb went off: a soldier hangs his head at…

Hello and welcome to Czechs in History. In today's edition: a look at Prague's most distinctive landmark St Vitus' Cathedral, ever visible above the city's Little Quarter…

Without a doubt one of the most interesting items making the front-pages this day is the BBC's interview with Vaclav Klaus. The Czech president appeared on the BBC's hard…

This past weekend saw the Czech Republic's Christian Democratic Party choose a new chairman in a relatively close race between front-runners Deputy Miroslav Kalousek and…