Martin Mikule

Czech Parliament is discussing an amendment to the country's Criminal Code, now more than 40 years old. The main purpose of the amendment is above all to hit perpetrators…

Film festivals often bring to mind shiny limousines with film stars at Cannes or fancy banquets in Venice. In the Czech Republic the most famous festival is held every…

The creators of Up and Down are no to strangers to the film industry, in fact they are very well known: the duo of director Jan Hrebejk & screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky…

The Slovak Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan on a visit of the Czech Republic on Tuesday met several officials, among others Prime Minister Stanislav Gross, Prague Mayor Pavel…

People representing various Czech non-profit organisations gathered in the Valdstejn Palace in Prague at the end of last week to discuss a document that has been causing a…

It's been almost a week since I got back from my holiday trip to Spain and I still feel as if I had jet lag after crossing a several time zones. When it's bed time I am…

Karlovy Vary - the biggest and most elegant Czech spa town - is hosting an annual balneology fair this week. For the uninitiated, that means a fair looking at issues…

The Iraqi Minister of Culture, Mufid Jazairi, met in Prague this week with his Czech counterpart, Pavel Dostal, to discuss what kind of assistance or expertise the Czech…

The year 2004 is very special for Czech music. Czechs commemorate the 100th anniversary of death of their most famous composer Antonin Dvorak. Many musical events, not…

The Czech president Vaclav Klaus is on a state visit to the countries of Central Asia. After visiting the huge, mineral-rich, but sparsely populated Kazakhstan, he moved…