Pavla Horáková

This week in Mailbox: the Prague street that was renamed Viktoriastrasse by the Nazis; more response to Radio Prague's new signature tunes; and the Czech pop legend Karel…

In the Czech Republic, summer is a time of fun fairs, day trips and also swimming and bathing in lakes and open air pools. Those events and locations are associated with a…

The war of words between President Vaclav Klaus and Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek over the latter's proposal to compensate Sudeten German antifascists has reached a new…

Almost sixteen years after the fall of communism the Czech Republic has still not resolved the much-debated issue of controlled rents - a legacy of the state-controlled…

Almost sixteen years after the fall of communism, many people, including historians, still find it hard to get access to the files of the StB, the former communist secret…

In this week's Spotlight we'll, for a change, travel outside the Czech Republic - yet in a sense still stay in it - because today we are visiting Prague House in Brussels.

According to statistics, 30 percent of Czech households have computers and 19 percent have an internet connection. Computers are mostly used by people between the age of…

Welcome to the ABC of Czech in which this season we look at Czech vocabulary to do with food and drink. In the past two episodes we talked about beer in the Czech language…