Martin Mikule

After weeks of hot debate and political turmoil the Czech Republic is finally settling down with its new government - or rather new-old government, as it differs only very…

Czech architecture has a long and rich tradition, but in the last few years, it has also come in for a lot of criticism, as faceless shopping centres mushroom around the…

The works of Richard Wagner form a cornerstone of German opera. His best known work is probably the cycle "The Ring of the Nibelung". The saga which consists of four parts…

On Wednesday the seventh year of the human rights' documentary film festival "One World" began in Prague. It is organized by the Czech humanitarian organization "People in…

The opera cycle "The Ring of the Niebelung" by German composer Richard Wagner based on stories from German mythology takes us into a world of gods, dwarfs, and giants. It…

A new Czech-Slovak film is just coming to cinemas around the country. The film - made by the Slovak director Martin Sulik - is called "The City of the Sun or Working Class…

A number of political scientists, sociologists, historians and other academics gathered earlier this week at an international conference in Prague to discuss what…

Like other post-communist countries, the Czech Republic has seen a large increase in the number of drug addicts in the last decade. The 'traditional' Czech drugs have been…

Like Czech society, Czech media have also undergone a crucial change since the fall of communism in 1989. But even though censorship disappeared with the coming of…

Animated film is a very important part of Czech cinema. Names like Jiri Trnka, Hermina Tyrlova or Bretislav Pojar are very well known to every animated film fan. Friends…