This Saturday marks the centenary of the birth of Alexander Dubček, one of the most charismatic leaders of 20th century Czechoslovakia who led the country during the Prague Spring. A Communist Party loyalist, Dubček is seen today largely as a tragi...

The Czech Republic is one of the least vulnerable countries when it comes to Russian and Chinese malign activities in the Central European and Western Balkan regions, according to a newly published Vulnerability Index, produced by the Bratislava-base...

This Wednesday will see the 32nd anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution that ended totalitarian communist rule in Czechoslovakia. To mark the occasion, several events are taking place in Prague and in the wider Czech Republic. Unlike last ...

History remembers Gustáv Husák, the last communist president of Czechoslovakia, as the face of a spineless regime that ruled during the Normalisation era. He had risen to power in the wake of the Soviet-led invasion that crushed the Prague Spring �...

Slovak president visits Czech Republic on eve of 32nd anniversary of Velvet Revolution Published: Tuesday, November 16, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

Slovak president to visit ailing Czech head of state in hospital Published: Tuesday, November 16, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

Slovak president Zuzana Čaputová to receive Senate’s Silver Medal Award Published: Saturday, November 13, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

Legendary Slovak pop star Miroslav Žbirka dies at 69 Published: Thursday, November 11, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

Key Visegrad Group (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) stakeholders see Germany as an important bilateral partner and what the EU to expand further south and east. They are also more hopeful about prospects for better relations with the United State...

103rd anniversary of foundation of Czechoslovakia celebrated Published: Thursday, October 28, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Václav Havel, the dissident playwright, human rights activist, and first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia. In honour of his memory, a commemorative sheet, resembling a banknote, has been...

Leading cultural personalities awarded on occasion of Czechoslovak Independence Day Published: Monday, October 25, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

After an era spanning six decades, the oldest Czechoslovak folk band Spirituál kvintet held a goodbye concert to a sold-out audience in Prague’s Lucerna. The band, which performed for Presidents George H.W. Busch and Bill Clinton, released more th...

On October 24th 1941 members of the 11th Czechoslovak infantry battalion assisted the defenders of Tobruk in North Africa. Published: Sunday, October 24, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

My Sunny Maad, an animated film by Czech director Michaela Pavlátová, will seek a nomination for the Animated Feature Oscar. The Czech-French-Slovak coproduction film about a Czech woman married to an Afghan man has already won the Jury Prize at th...

The current state of Czech President Miloš Zeman’s health and the lack of information provided by his office have raised a debate about the public’s right to information with regard to the country’s top official. Miloš Zeman is not the first ...

Exhibition honouring RAF’s Czechoslovak 310 Squadron opens in Brno Published: Saturday, October 16, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

Jaroslav Drobný was part of the Czechoslovak ice hockey team that won the country’s first World Championships in ice hockey in 1947. He would go on to win in the Wimbledon doubles in 1954 – as a citizen of Egypt. Published: Sunday, October ...

Photographer Josef Koudelka is world famous for works such as his Gypsies series, indelible shots of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of his native Czechoslovakia and, in more recent times, powerful landscapes. Now 83, Koudelka has donated many of the ke...

Day of Architecture gets underway across Czechia and Slovakia Published: Friday, October 1, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

The jailing of members and associates of the Plastic People of the Universe famously sparked Czechoslovakia’s Charter 77 human rights movement. The underground rock legends’ discography is the subject of a new book, A Consumer Guide to the Plasti...

King Sihamoni studied in Prague from 1962 to 1975, and calls Czechoslovakia his ‘second home’. He is the only living monarch who speaks Czech. Published: Sunday, September 19, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

Libeň was annexed to Prague as the last suburb before the establishment of Czechoslovakia. The largest district of Prague 8 has witnessed many historical events. Published: Sunday, September 12, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

America’s “Second City” has a long Czech history. Once home to a lively community of immigrants from Bohemia and Moravia, the suburb of Cicero still has a school named after the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. Nearby “C...

Prime Ministers of Czechia, Slovakia and Austria speak against illegal migration Published: Wednesday, September 8, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

Journalist and film critic Hynek Pallas grew up in a notable Czech household in Sweden, where his dissident family settled after being forced out of Czechoslovakia. From their home, his father Jiří Pallas ran the label Šafrán 78, releasing music ...

Members of the Czechoslovak Legionaries Association took part in a ceremonial march through Prague to celebrate their 100th anniversary at the weekend. The Czechoslovak Legionaries Association is the oldest veteran organization in the Czech Republic,...

Czechoslovak Legionary Association march marks 100th anniversary of its foundation Published: Saturday, September 4, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

Dr Františka Schormová was awarded Charles University’s highest academic accolade this spring for her dissertation titled “African American Poets Abroad: Black and Red Allegiances in Early Cold War Czechoslovakia”. The young literary scholar ...

Finding a good bricklayer, carpenter, roofer has long been a challenge in the Czech Republic. By some estimates, the domestic market lacks over 300,000 such craftsmen, leading companies to recruit workers from abroad, in particular from Slovakia, Pol...