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A travelling open-air exhibition commemorating the renowned Prague writer Franz Kafka is now on display on Prague's Mariánské Square in front of Prague City Hall. The exhibition, featuring texts from Radek Malý's book Franz Kafka: A Man of His and Our Time and brilliant illustrations by Renata Fučíková, was prepared by Czech Centres to mark the centenary of the writer's death. It will remain on show until the end of August.

The interest in it is so big that the panels which were first produced in four world languages, English, French, German and Spanish, were later also translated into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Armenian, Serbian, Polish, Greek, Portuguese and Russian.

Kateřina Siniaková and Tomáš Macháč won gold in the mixed doubles at the Paris Olympics on Friday, securing Czechia’s first gold medal in the games. They beat China’s Zhang Zhizhen and Wang Xinyu in three sets  6:2, 5:7 and 10:8 in a super tie break.

Police have detained a Czech minor who was allegedly involved in the preparation of a terrorist attack during the Rainbow Pride march in Bratislava two weeks ago. The young man, who was detained in Moravia and taken into custody, was a member of an international group that was allegedly planning to attack participants in the event.  Slovak police uncovered the plot and subsequently, police officers intervened in several European countries, including Czechia and the US, arrested all the suspects. According to Deník N, which reported on the case the arrested Czech is one of the group’s co-founders.

Czech President Petr Pavel has welcomed the large-scale prisoner swap between Russia and the US in which 24 prisoners were released in total.  Mr. Pavel said the agreement was a positive signal that showed that the two countries were still able to communicate.

Among those released from Russian prisons was Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist who lived in the Czech Republic and worked for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Kurmasheva, a mother of two, was detained by the Russian authorities on a visit to her parents last October and sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail for failing to register as a foreign agent.

In addition, Russian authorities reportedly freed activists and other regime critics such as Vladimir Kara-Murza, Ilya Yashin, and Sasha Skochilenko.