Czech economy up by 4.6 percent year-on-year in Q1

President Miloš Zeman again rejects promoting BIS head Koudelka to rank of general

Czechs mark Holocaust Remembrance Day

More than 1,400 people, including several foreign leaders, attended the funeral service for the former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday. Among those present were representatives of the Czech Repu...

Febiofest film festival gets underway

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Nearly 314,600 Ukrainian refugees now have special visas

Experts: minimum decent wage in Czechia should be CZK 33,909

If there were an extreme shortage of natural gas in the Czech Republic supplies would only be maintained to households and critical infrastructure such as hospitals, an official from the Ministry of Industry and Trade told the Czech News Agency.

In recent days, European universities have been the target of a Russian disinformation campaign claiming that they are expelling Russian students in a wave of Russophobia. Charles University this week categorically denied claims that it was expellin...

The most successful novel to date by leading Czech writer Kateřina Tučková is coming out in English this Sunday. Tracing the story of a community of women in the White Carpathians, The Last Goddess is – characteristically for the author – bas...

Radio Prague International is celebrating its 85th birthday today! We would like to thank all our listeners, readers and folowers for staying with us. As a little present, here is a tour of where we work – the Czech Radio Building on Vinohradská ...

Cases of disinformation over Ukraine uncovered in Czech schools

David Stypka takes three posthumous Anděl awards

Czech online food delivery company Rohlik Group has announced that it registered 53 percent growth within its past fiscal year running from May 2021 to April 2022. The company now has close to a million permanent customers spread over four Central E...

Russia’s decision to suspend gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria has raised concerns about the consequences of a cut in deliveries to this country. Prime Minister Petr Fiala said that while there were no immediate signals that Czechia was at risk ...

Heating chief: Czechs couldn’t fill shortfall if Russia cuts off gas

Zeman backs Poland over Russia gas supply spat

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Almost everyone has heard of the Great Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, the oldest-known of which was built around 2600 BC; most people in the West have heard of England’s Stonehenge, believed to have been constructed somewhere between 3000 BC to 2000 B...

Biden to speak at funeral of Madeleine Albright in Washington

US backs Czech stance on Ukraine in Lipavský-Blinken talks

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised the Czech Republic’s response to Russia’s war on Ukraine at a Tuesday meeting with Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský in Washington D.C. Both heads of diplomacy reiterated the importance of maintaining Uk...

For the Ukrainian war refugees newly arrived in Czechia, finding long-term housing, work or a school for their children is becoming increasingly difficult. A new map by the NGO People in Need and Charles University’s Faculty of Sciences wants to m...

Christian Democrats want lower house to label Russian crimes in Ukraine as genocide

Chamber of Deputies approves temporary VAT cut on petrol and diesel

PM: Suspension of gas supplies to Poland breach of contracts

Interior minister: Security will be important topic of Czech EU presidency

Despite the heating season having just finished, Czechs are already stocking on firewood for the next one, fearing the rising energy prices, Czech Television reported on Monday.

A new study suggests that about half the populations of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary are concerned about media freedom – and a majority in the Visegrad Four support national or EU legislation to safeguard it.

The remains of Czechoslovakia’s World War II head of intelligence, General František Moravec, are being ceremonially reburied in his home town of Čáslav this Tuesday. The spy chief died in exile in the United States and was buried for decades i...

A special conference for children addressing the war in Ukraine took place at Czech Radio’s building in Prague on Monday. Among the speakers, who answered the children’s questions was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Vít Rakušan...

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Billions to be spent on adaptation measures to fight drought

Bolek Polívka to receive President’s Award at KVIFF

Constitutional Court to address complaint about Czech-Polish agreement on Turow mine

Prime Minister Fiala to hold talks with Chancellor Scholz in Berlin next week

The Mesolithic-Neolithic site of Shaqadud in Sudan is one of the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences’ flagship sites. First found in the early 1960s by German archaeologist Karl-Heinz Otto, Shaqadud became known as a famous p...

Czech Republic reopens consulate in Ukraine’s Lviv

Remains of General František Moravec taken to Czech Republic for reburial

The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the energy crisis, inflation and the war in Ukraine are all affecting the Czech labour market, writes news site Aktuálně.cz. Worried about an upcoming economic crisis, employees are now more relucta...

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death, a reliquary of Charles I, the last Emperor of Austria-Hungary and thus also the last King of Bohemia, was ceremonially placed within the Cathedral of Saint Vitus at Prague Castle on Sunday. Char...

Talks on new defence deal with US to start in May

Okamura party politician found guilty of Holocaust denial over Lety remark

Czech politicians have welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron’s election victory over his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen, hailing it as good news for Europe and a signal of stability in turbulent times. I spoke to Zuzana Šimek from the Prague-...

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Plzeň top of football league after surprise defeat for Slavia

Sunday sees lowest Covid tally since October 10

Bakers: Margins checks won’t keep prices down, businesses under threat

František Vrábel is an expert on Russia’s infiltration of Czech society via sophisticated online disinformation, something his international company Semantic Visions monitors very closely. At their offices in a lovely Art Nouveau building overlo...

After a two-year Covid break, students could once again hold their traditional open-air spring festival Majales this weekend.

Czech leaders send congratulations to re-elected French president

Rib of Charles I placed in Cathedral of St. Vitus

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EU to launch sixth package of sanctions next week, says Jourová

Czech government not planning to raise tax on companies, says Finance Minister

Finance Minister: Czech Republic has frozen Russian assets worth close to CZK 1 billion

Cases of chickenpox and viral intestinal infections rising among Czech children

Czech Post constructing new sorting centre in Mošnov

This week’s Sunday Music Show is dedicated to one of the Czech Republic’s most popular contemporary female signers Ewa Farna who has received the highest number of nominations in this years Anděl Music Awards. Born in the city of Třinec near t...

The Žďák Bridge, which spans the banks of the Vltava River, was completed in 1967. At the time it was the largest single-arch steel bridge in the world.

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Czechia’s public debt rises to CZK 2.59 billion

Czech Republic hoping to replace Russia in UN Human Rights Council

Friday’s coronavirus infections at their lowest since October

Defence Ministry wants to spend nearly CZK 3 billion on new purchases

Marian Jurečka re-elected as leader of Christian Democrats

Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine has put millions of people on the move, refugees fleeing from Ukraine to save their lives and others fleeing from Russia for fear of what the country may turn into in the months and years to come. A British writ...

Czech Defence Minister Jana Černochová is currently visiting the United States in order to discuss closer defence ties and the speedy purchase of new military equipment. At a meeting with Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin in Washington D.C. on Thursd...

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Majority of e-shops breaking the law

Children filling intensive care units due to weak immunity post-Covid

After decades of exile both in life and death, the remains of Czechoslovakia’s wartime intelligence chief, Brigadier General František Moravec are being returned to the Czech Republic next Tuesday. The Czechoslovak legionary-turned-spy was one of...

Russian students abroad applying for transfers back home

Czech foreign minister to CNN: We must help Ukraine to win this war

The winter low season is over, but restaurant owners say their clientele has been slow to return, although many have already opened their outdoor gardens and terraces to entice passers-by. According to the company SaltPay, which supplies restaurants...

Czech jailed in Pakistan for drug smuggling free to leave

Czech and US defense ministers discuss closer military cooperation in Washington

In the Czech Republic, drinking is almost a national sport, which people train for from a young age. But a new campaign warns parents against the dangers of children drinking even so-called non-alcoholic beers.

Czech foreign minister to attend Madeleine Albright’s funeral

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Czech defense minister discussing security and Czech-US cooperation in Washington

Christian Democrats to elect new leadership

Pražská plynárenská announces 39 percent price hike on gas

Number of visas issued to Ukrainian refugees crosses 300,000 mark

The Czech Republic and Slovakia are “showing a new way forward for Western democracies” with their response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. That is the view of Berlin-based political scientist Benjamin Tallis in an article published this week. I a...

Trade Unions: Škoda Auto production could stabilise from June

Interior Minister: Russia behind cyber-attack on Czech institutions

Czech and Polish Senate chairs call on democratic parliaments to support Ukraine

President Zeman names 39 new judges

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov to receive Febiofest award

Czech billionaire accused of interfering in French magazine’s editorial work

Czech Defence Minister to meet with with Defence Secretary Austin in US

Czech police have started investigating suspected war crimes in Ukraine. They are currently gathering testimonies from refugees who fled the country to the Czech Republic. The Czech judiciary can sentence the perpetrators of the violence in absentia...

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Czech Academy of Sciences to focus on GM crops and energy during country’s EU presidency

A newly published opinion poll on Czech society’s response to Russia’s war on Ukraine suggests that support for NATO is at its highest level for almost three decades – while only 9 percent of respondents now feel there is no threat of armed co...

Czech economy sees further acceleration of price rises in March

Survey: Many businesses will be forced to significantly raise prices this year

Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Radka Rubilina was based in Kyiv, working as director of the local Czech Centre. A few days before the invasion, she had to leave the country, but she continues to run the Czech Centre’s activities from its ...

CNB Governor doesn’t rule out further rise in interest rates

Czech websites come under cyber attack

Czech Covid deaths pass 40,000 mark

Czech companies to repair Ukrainian tanks

Support for NATO membership among public highest for decades

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War on Ukraine prompts Czechs to intensify military spending

Man charged over shooting dead of labour office employee

Almost 296,000 Ukrainian refugees now have special visas

Czechs have provided around CZK 3.4 billion in donations since the beginning of Russia’s war on Ukraine. The largest amount overall (1.67 billion) has been collected by the humanitarian NGO People in Need. The organisation’s media coordinator fo...

New musical is first theatre project for filmmaker Jan Svěrák

Police gathering evidence from refugees over Ukraine war crimes

Czech children’s writer Petr Březina has launched a unique undertaking to help Ukrainian child refugees feel at home in the Czech Republic. He has put together a bilingual book of children’s fairy tales, illustrated by Czech children, which sho...

The legendary mountain giant Krakonoš officially wound-up the ski season in the Špindlerův Mlýn Ski resort at the weekend. This year's conditions were very good compared to previous years, and even now there is still a fine blanket of snow on th...

Monday sees second lowest number of Covid cases registered this year

Teacher fired for spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda in class

Interior Ministry says it has trouble accommodating large groups of Roma refugees who insist on staying together

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Health minister: respirators should not be compulsory anywhere in May

Czechs celebrating Easter properly after two-year break