Society
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Security expert: Paramilitary groups “reason for concern”
Self-styled “home guard” paramilitary groups now have around 2,000 members in the Czech Republic and represent a significant security threat. That’s according to the…
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Schools note serious shortage of maths, physics and IT teachers
When the schoolyear starts on Monday, many principals will still be searching for teachers, especially for maths and physics classes. Although better paid than ever before…
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Winemaker of the Year prize goes to white wine producer from Mikulov
Jaroslav Volařík, a wine-maker from the South Moravian town of Mikulov, has just won this year’s title Winemaker of the Year. Nearly 60 Bohemian and Moravian producers…
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Moscow 1968 protester Pavel Litvinov: We didn’t hope to achieve anything – we just felt we have to…
On August 25, 1968 eight brave souls held a public protest on Moscow’s Red Square against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. They all paid dearly for that act of…
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Police crack down on drug traffic ahead of Hip Hop Kemp festival
Hip Hop Kemp, the largest music festival of the genre in Central and Eastern Europe officially kicks off on Thursday night at the massive open-air site Festivalpark on the…
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Czech Radio recreates dramatic night of invasion with 13-hour broadcast
Czechoslovak Radio was a focal point of the Soviet-led invasion of 1968, with the streets around the station seeing the worst violence and the highest number of deaths…
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Artist teams up with Doctors Without Borders to take on demon diseases
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Czech Republic has joined forces with artist Toy_Box to launch a new exhibition on Prague’s Artwall Gallery. I visited the opening in Letná…
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Rare stamps to go on display in Prague
The first-ever public display of the famous blue and red Mauritius stamps and the so-called Bombay Cover Post Office will be the highlight of this year’s world exhibition…
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Hitler’s ugly mug: police deem sale of Nazi leader’s image on t-shirts, coffee cups lawful
To promote neo-Nazi ideology is a crime in the Czech Republic. Giving the Seig Heil salute and denying the Holocaust is also forbidden, as is hate speech in general. But…
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Former accreditation commission head on Czech obsession with titles and plagiarism
In the past month the Czech public saw the heads of two government ministers roll over suspicions of plagiarism in their university theses. A third minister only barely…
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Heatwave continues to put pressure on businesses, individuals alike
The Czech Republic has just seen its hottest day so far this year, with temperatures reaching highs of 37 degrees Celsius in places on Tuesday, and the current heatwave…
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Scilla Elworthy – the campaigner who has put a price on world peace
Scilla Elworthy is a lifelong campaigner against warfare and conflict and was nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Oxford Research Group…
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