In a remarkable work of oral history, four students with the help of former dissident and award winning author Aleš Palán have produced a 270 page history of the events that took place in Prague...
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Czech-Chinese Centre at Charles University to be closed down
The Czech-Chinese Centre at Charles University is to be closed down on the orders of the university’s rector Tomáš Zima. The university has been embroiled in a scandal over secret Chinese payments to four of...
Czech embassy officials to visit refugee camps in Greece
Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček has said that officials from the Czech embassy in Athens would visit Greek refugee camps housing “unaccompanied minors“ in order to ascertain the situation in connection with an appeal from the...
Czech pilgrims attend public audience with Pope Francis
Pilgrims from the Czech Republic attended a public audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday. Believers from this country travelled to the Vatican to mark the 30th anniversary of the canonisation of Saint...
Václav Havel Airport planning expansion
Prague’s Václav Havel Airport will expand Terminal 2 in order to accommodate the growing number of passengers, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said at a press briefing in Prague on Wednesday. The planned expansion should cost...
Tennis star Berdych expected to announce retirement this weekend
The Czech tennis player Tomáš Berdych looks set to announce his retirement. Berdych, who is 34, will make public that he is quitting the sport at the ATP Finals in London this weekend, his father...
Russian authorities effectively ban Czech NGO People in Need
The Russian authorities have placed the Czech NGO People in Need on a list of undesirable organisations, the TASS news agency reported. The move by the Ministry of Justice in Moscow amounts to a ban...
Ministry approves multi-billion crown acquisition of US helicopters
The Czech Ministry of Defence has approved the purchase of 12 helicopters from the United States at a cost of CZK 14.6 billion not including VAT. The minister of defence, Lubomír Metnar, said that he...
Places of the Velvet Revolution 2: Laterna Magika
As the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution draws near, we take you to places that played a significant role in the events leading to the collapse of the Communist regime 30 years ago. In the...
Daily news summary 12.11.2019
St. Agnes canonisation marked, Zeman for Bratislava, Babiš Chamber absenteeism