Alena Škodová

Although we're not going to look at the life of a particular person in today's programme, we'll plunge into quite remote history - the end of the 19th century, because it…

At the end of last week, the Czech Republic was under ice. There were many car accidents, some of them fatal, but pedestrians walking on badly kept pavements in cities and…

An interesting project aimed at teaching people more about ethnic minorities in the Czech Republic has just come to an end. Two non-governmental organisations - the Prague…

The Czech Republic is known abroad as a highly cultural country, and Prague - as the fifth most frequently visited European city - is especially popular for its arts…

Christmas trees are an inseparable part of Christmas, but there certainly there are countless ways of decorating them, according to cultural taste. In the Czech Republic…

Advent is a time when most Christmas exhibitions open throughout the Czech Republic to make people stop in the pre-Christmas hustle and bustle and think about the…

Two years ago, the Budapest-based Open Society Institute launched a project called 'EU Accession Monitoring Programme'. The project focuses on assessing among other things…

In its twelve-year-old history, the right-of-centre Civic Democratic party, ODS, has only elected its second leader. Following Vaclav Klaus in the post, Senator Mirek…

If you have friends in the Czech Republic and they send you Christmas greetings regularly, you might have received an idyllic post card depicting village children sledge…

All the Czech newspapers today carry reports from Brussels, where the European Union's 15 foreign ministers are discussing the final agreements in accession talks with 10…