This Sunday Music Show is dedicated to Antonín Dvořák’s piano works, performed by the outstanding Czech pianist Ivo Kahánek. The recordings you will hear are part of his new collection of four CDs entitled Dvořák: The Complete Piano Works, ...

Forty years ago, on February 20, 1982, USD 250 million worth of Czechoslovak Republic's gold reserves, which were stolen by the Nazis folowing the occupation of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, was returned to its rightful owner. 

Fiala on Russia-Ukraine tensions

Covid quarantine discontinued, isolation extended in Czech Republic

Anti-vax group to target Zeman over Pandemic Law

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Thousands left without power after strong winds

MPs approve outline budget for 2022

Lowest weekday Covid tally in five weeks seen Friday

Prague calls on Moscow to stop escalating situation in Donbas

The Czech Republic’s annual Muriel Award for the best comic book of the year was given to Štefánik, a graphic novel about one of the founders of Czechoslovakia. The novel, a joint endeavour by writer Michal Baláže, Gabriela Kyselová and illus...

The inhabitants of Dobříš, close to Prague, are calling for a referendum to block developers from building largescale housing on the outskirts of the district. The situation is similar in many of the towns and villages in close proximity to Pragu...

The effects of the global coronavirus pandemic and the associated chip shortage resulted in a substantial fall in Czech automobile production in 2021 and freshly released data for January showed the worst year-on-year production fall in more than 10...

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Czech hockey coach prepared to resign over team’s failure in Beijing

Czech film director Miloš Forman would have turned 90 on Friday

Bishop František Václav Lobkowicz dies at 74

Chamber of Deputies approves amendment to Pandemic Law

Czech biathlete Markéta Davidová misses out on medal in Olympic mass-start race

Thousands of homes remain without power after gale-force winds

Czech PM holds talks with EC head Ursula von der Leyen

The great Czech film director Miloš Forman would have been 90 on February 18. After creating some of the best films of the Czechoslovak New Wave, Forman enjoyed a second career in Hollywood, winning two Oscars. We speak to some people who knew him....

The concept of Open House, founded by Victoria Thornton in London in 1992, was intended to help citizens start perceiving their surroundings in terms of design and architecture. Thanks to the festival’s success, it expanded to 50 cities all over t...

Covid-19 cases down for ninth day in row

Czech Centre New York pays homage to Miloš Forman

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Strong winds complicating traffic around Czechia

Ledecká narrowly misses out on medal in Olympic combined Alpine event

With soaring inflation people are being advised to invest their money in various commodities. The Czech Mint in Jablonec nad Nisou has just given a select few the chance to invest a whopping 14 million crowns in the biggest gold coin ever minted on ...

Zeman says putsch attempt made against him during hospitalisation

Pandemic Law vote to take place Friday afternoon

Pensions to go up in June in response to high inflation

PM cancels Paris trip after filibustering blocks vote

Average mortgage rate in Czech Republic jumps to 3.4 percent

The Research Institute for Gene Pool Conservation at the Dvůr Králové Zoo is hoping to reinvigorate the small gene pool of zebras in zoos by collecting semen from animals in the wild. The project is currently being tested and, if successful, coul...

In January, banks and building societies in the Czech Republic granted mortgages in a total volume of around CZK 32.6 billion, a drop by more than a quarter on December, the news site Aktualne.cz reported, citing data by the Czech Banking Associatio...

Czech archaeologists have made another major discovery in Egypt. During excavations in Abusir, south of Cairo, they unearthed a cache of embalming materials, consisting of 370 large vessels and a number of smaller artefacts used in the mummification...

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Kulhánek becomes Czech permanent representative to UN

Anti-Covid measures group posts MPs home addresses online

Zeman to attend lower house budget debate Friday

Covid cases dropping, interest in inoculation likewise

Opposition party obstructing new debate on Pandemic Law

Lower house debating Pandemic Law following veto from Senate

Perhaps the most famous Czech ice hockey player ever, Jaromír Jágr, is celebrating his 50th birthday this Tuesday. To mark the occasion, coin maker České dukáty and the State Printing Works of Securities (STC) are printing a total of 10,000 spe...

Czech hockey legend Jaromír Jágr turns 50

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Meteorologists predict long bout of above-average temperatures

The Czech government plans to cut the old-age pensions of senior communist-era secret police officers. While the idea is welcomed by some, calls have also been made to do more for the victims of the former regime, many of whom are on very low pensio...

Anti-drug coordinator: Pandemic increasing additions of all kinds

Vaccination certificate expires for tens of thousands without booster shot

MP Farský vacates seat in lower house

Babiš asks MPs not to strip him of his immunity

First part of US military convoy to pass through Czechia on Tuesday

Monday saw coronavirus cases continue to fall

Czech hockey legend Jaromír Jágr’s face to be depicted on special banknote

Czechia ready to take in refugees in case of Ukraine-Russia conflict

Czech embassy and consulate in Ukraine to continue to operate

Further confirmation that prices in the Czech Republic are rocketing came with the news on Monday that inflation reached 9.9 percent in January, following the sharpest month-on-month jump ever seen in the country. I discussed the inflation situation...

Health insurers warn they will raise rates if state does not increase contributions next year

TSK to spend CZK 2.1 billion on Prague infrastructure this year

In view of the escalating threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs has withdrawn its diplomats’ families from the country. While the embassy in Kyiv continues to operate for the time being, the ministry has al...

PPF Group buys 100 percent stake in RTL Hrvatska TV station

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The biggest Czech cross-country skiing event, Jizerská 50, took place on Sunday. But there is more to the event than the main race – there are also shorter courses, including one for historical skiers.  

Regional governor criticizes previous government’s Turow mine deal

Statisticians: Inflation in Czechia exceeded eurozone average in January

Czech Airlines to continue flying to Kyiv for time being

Ivo Kahánek is one of the most successful Czech pianists of his generation, performing with top domestic orchestras and regularly appearing at some of the world’s top classical venues. Last year the 42-year-old won acclaim for the mammoth Dvořá...

Czech Interior Ministry launches audit at Prague Castle over shredded intelligence report

Covid: Sunday sees lowest increase in cases in five weeks

Epidemiologist: face mask requirement could be gradually lifted as of mid-March

Czech President Miloš Zeman congratulates his German counterpart on re-election

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FM: Czech Embassy in Kyiv and the Consulate in Lvov will continue to operate

Ninth annual Cirkopolis festival kicks off in Prague

Norway’s Andreas Nygaard wins Jizerská padesátka

Covid cases dropping for five days in succession

Banjo playing Ivan Mládek is likely to be the first image that comes into a Czech’s mind when talking about funny songs to play by the camp fire. Mládek has been writing, singing and performing songs for close to six decades now and is one of t...

On the occasion of World Radio Day, Radio Prague International is updating its signature jingle.

Czechoslovakia was officially connected to the Internet on February 13, 1992 at an event hosted by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague-Dejvice. The first ever connection had a speed of 19.2 kilobits per ...

Czechs defeat Russia in men’s Olympic hockey tournament

Czech Foreign Ministry warns against travel to Ukraine and Belarus

US military convoy to pass through Czechia on Tuesday

Quarantine after risk contact scrapped as of February 19

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Record number of tourists visited Giant Mountains summits last year

Digitally restored version of Jiří Menzel’s Larks on Strings to premier in Berlin

Andrej Babiš re-elected chairman of ANO Party 

Covid epidemic continues to slow down in Czechia

Prague is known as one of the culture capitals of Central Europe and Czechs have a long tradition of musical education. One of the people that prove this heritage is still alive and well is Ian Mikyska, an up-and-coming composer who is pushing the b...

Ruling coalition prepares to override Senate’s veto of Pandemic Law

A team of three artists from Liberec have painted a unique picture with which they hope to support the North Bohemian city’s efforts to be selected as the European City of Culture in 2028. The 3x2.2m art piece was the result of a non-stop 124 hour...

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January 2022 was unseasonably warm in Czech Republic

European Data Portal: Czech Republic has ninth most advanced economy in EU

Martina Sáblíková has secured another medal for the Czech Republic at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. On Thursday, the Czech speed skating sensation won the bronze in the women’s 5,000 meter race. It is already the seventh Olympic medal for S...

Covid numbers continue to drop

Prince of Liechtenstein Foundation’s property claims rejected by Czech court

While the skiing season in the Czech Republic is in full swing, sporting gear retailers across the country are struggling with a shortage of cross country skis and boots. In the face of a huge demand, orders have been delayed by several months, Czec...

Ester Ledecka fifth in super G

PM says Senate’s rejection of Pandemic Law “important feedback“

Senate rejects proposed amendment to Pandemic Law

Speed-skater Martina Sáblíková wins bronze in Beijing

The Czech government has approved a draft state budget for 2022 that envisages a considerably lower deficit than that proposed by their predecessors.

This February marks one hundred years since the invention of polarography, a pioneering method analysing substances in solutions, developed by Czech chemist Jaroslav Heyrovský. More than thirty years after his discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Pr...

From this Thursday, people in the Czech Republic no longer have to provide a vaccine certificate or a certificate of having recovered from Covid-19 in order to enter restaurants, hotels, mass events or various types of services. The measure was canc...

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EC forecast for Czechia: economic growth to reach 4.4 percent

Steep rise in number of children suffering from anxiety and depression

Covid cases dropping, but number of hospitalized rising

Senate debating Pandemic Law

Caritas Czech Republic, the biggest non-governmental provider of social and health services in the country, also has humanitarian aid projects in many countries of the world. With help from the Czech Development Agency, it built and equipped the fir...

People in Czechia no longer required to show Covid certificates

Government increases budget for Czechia's EU presidency in 2022

Czech ice hockey team loses to Denmark in first Olympic match

PM Fiala: Most anti-Covid measures to end starting March 1

Government re-appoints Michal Koudelka head of counterintelligence service

Number of seated spectators at mass events to remain limited to 1,000

Government approves 2022 draft state budget