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Strong winds complicating traffic around Czechia

Strong winds of around 90 kilometres per hour have damaged power lines around the country leaving tens of thousands of people without electricity supplies on Thursday…
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Czechia in 30 Minutes (February 16, 2021)

News, Czechs aid endangered zebras, important mummification discovery, archival interview with Martina Forman on Miloš Forman.
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Czech Republic given temporary exemption on pipeline oil deliveries as EU agrees on new sanctions against Russia

EU leaders have agreed to block more than two-thirds of Russian oil imports to EU states in a deal that will cut off a huge source of financing for Russia’s war machine.
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Zlín Region

A region of enterprising people. This is where the Bata company was founded and today its shoes are famous the world over.
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Czechia in 30 Minutes (February 15, 2021)

News; Government to cut StB pensions ; Special banknote marks hockey legend Jaromír Jágr’s 50th birthday; Martin Loužecký helping African youth through skateboarding
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Czechia in 30 Minuts (14 February 2022)

News: Czechs warned to leave Ukraine; inflation nears 10 percent; interview with pianist Ivo Kahánek.
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Czechia’s foreign trade balance posts 13.8 billion crown deficit in March

The Czech Republic’s foreign trade balance saw a deficit of CZK 13.8 billion in March, a drop by CZK 30.5 billion crowns year-on-year, according to data published by the…
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Václav Havel in his own words

Czechia has given the world many notable figures. However, no Czech has garnered as much respect worldwide in recent history as Prague-born Václav Havel.
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Czechia in 30 Minutes (February 12, 2021)

Prague composer Ian Mikyska on pushing the boundaries of contemporary classical music
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Covid epidemic continues to slow down in Czechia

The daily number of new Covid-19 cases continues to decline in the Czech Republic. Laboratories registered 22,118 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday, around 6,600 fewer than…
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Czechia in 30 Minutes (February 11, 2021)

News;Sáblíková secures second Olympic medal for Czechia;Brainstorm-painting experiment supports bid for European City of Culture;Brass study shows early Rome-Bohemia ties
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Czechia in 30 minutes (February 10, 2022)

News, easing of Covid restrictions, 100 years since Heyrovsky invented polarography, Caritas aid in Georgia
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Czech political scene increasingly polarized ahead of regional and Senate elections

As the election campaign heats up in Czechia, tensions are high and some parties have resorted to controversial tactics.
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Czechia in 30 minutes (February 9, 2022)

News; 1990 winner (from 1969) Larks on a String returns to Berlin; Moser master glass blower finds no followers for his unique artwork; Tomáš Baťa's Zlín
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Israeli Ambassador to Czechia Anna Azari: The interest in Jewish culture here is sometimes quite amazing

“After the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia we always rooted for the Czech hockey team” says Israeli Ambassador to Czechia Anna Azari in an interview for RPI.
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Czechia in 30 minutes (February 8, 2022)

News, Ledecka wins gold medal in Beijing, Tomáš Kympl wins UK Songwriting Contest for 3rd time, CIA archives and Czechoslovakia
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Czechia among 10 EU states calling on Brussels to help with refugee funding

The Czech Republic is among 10 EU member states who have asked Brussels to provide money for managing the Ukrainian refugee crisis. The countries are proposing that the…
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Czechia in 30 minutes (February 7, 2022)

News; Czech minister visits Ukraine to support government; Alcoholism increasingly affecting women in Czechia; Czechoslovak Gulag survivor implicated in murder of Jews
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PM Fiala: Czechia aims to reach two-percent defence spending target by 2024

The Czech Republic is aiming to spend two per cent of GDP on defence as early as 2024, a year earlier than the government committed to in its programme statement, Prime…
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Industry and Trade Minister: Gas storage tanks in Czechia 30 percent full

Gas storage tanks in the Czech Republic are 30 percent full at the moment, the Ministry of Industry and Trade Josef Síkela said in a debate programme on Czech Television…
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Antonín Dvořák and his enduring connection to Central Bohemia

Antonín Dvořák is one of the greatest musicians that Czechia has given to the world. Throughout his life, he remained firmly rooted in his native region of Central Bohemia.
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Czechia in 30 minutes (February 5, 2022)

African American poetry in Czechoslovakia, viewed through a Cold War prism
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Morawiecki: Czechia and Poland to propose EU funding programme for countries taking in Ukrainian refugees

Poland and the Czech Republic will issue a joint proposal to the European Commission asking it to provide special financial help to manage the Ukrainian refugee crisis…
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Cyril and Methodius, Apostles to the Slavs

Saints Cyril and Methodius, often revered as the Apostles to the Slavs, are celebrated each year on 5th July. This day is a public holiday in both Czechia and Slovakia.
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Czechast: Moravia and Silesia

The administrative divisions we see today in Czechia don't quite respect historic boundaries of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. How did this come to be?
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