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Czech government delegation holds talks in Kyiv

Czech astrophotographer Petr Horálek from the University of Opava was awarded NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day award on October 28 for his photograph "Seven Years of Halley Dust". Seven years in the making, the photograph is a composite of the...

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Man shoots himself dead outside Office of the Government

Andrej Babiš officially confirms presidential candidacy

ANO party leader Andrej Babiš announced on Sunday that he will be running in the January 2023 Czech presidential election. The former prime minister made the decision despite currently being behind in the polls after several months of touring the c...

Czech household debts rising

Installation of Putin in cadaver bag draws criticism

Constitutional experts: no legal obstacles to Babiš’ candidacy for president

Czech government delegation in Kyiv

Tens of thousands of people joined a rally “against fear” in Prague’s Wenceslas Square on Sunday.  The demonstration, called by the civic association Million Moments for Democracy, came at a time when fear of rising prices and the looming ene...

The top domestic honour at this year’s Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, the Czech Joy award, went to Kapr Code by Lucie Králová. It explores the story of the once-celebrated but now largely forgotten composer Jan Kapr – in a h...

Majority of Czechs now economizing on eating out, new clothes and transport

General Pavel: Babiš’ populism is a threat to Czechia

ANO leader Andrej Babiš to run for president

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Living and subsistence minimum benefits to increase by five to six percent next year

Rudolf Jelínek is one of Czechia’s best-known brands of slivovitz (slivovice in Czech).

Warm spell breaks temperature records around Czechia

HIV infections on the rise

Eight injured in disco crush

President Zeman to meet with Babiš

Thousands join rally “against fear” on Wenceslas Square

Professor Jan Bedrna is one of the early pioneers of heart surgery in the former Czechoslovakia. At a hospital in Hradec Králové 75 years ago, he performed cardiac surgery for the first time in the country’s history.

The great singer and dissident Marta Kubišová – who many Czechs associate with key moments in the country’s modern history – turns 80 on November 1.

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Prague Castle opens Deer Moat for extended weekend

Four workers injured in accident in Příbram

Czechia to switch to Standard Time on October 30

Domestic violence among most common causes of divorce

Czech interior minister defends extension of border checks

State honours handed out on Czechoslovak Independence Day

 A unique collection of newly discovered photographs depicting everyday life in the Terezín ghetto are currently on display at the Memorial of Silence in Prague. The previously unseen images are on display at the Bubny train station, the place whi...

Czechs plant Sir Nicholas Winton Alley near legendary Říp Hill

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Installation on Czech Interior Ministry depicts Vladimir Putin in cadaver pouch

ANO party to announce presidential candidate on Monday

Slovakia pays tribute to common state of Czechs and Slovaks

Neela Winkelmann-Heyrovská never had the chance to meet her Nobel-prize winning chemist grandfather – Jaroslav Heyrovský died in 1967 and she was born two years later. But she had to live with his legacy her whole life – which, she says, was b...

Historic sites open their doors to the public for free

First Czech MP comes out as gay

Celebrations and anti-government protests on Czechoslovak Independence Day

EU strikes deal on new combustion-engine car ban

October 28th is Czechoslovak Independence Day, marking the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918.  Czechs will commemorate the 104th anniversary of the birth of the Czechoslovak Republic with a host of events, including the traditional ceremony a...

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New Chinese and Spanish ambassadors to Czechia sworn in

After nearly seven decades, the National Literature Memorial has left its premises in Prague’s Strahov Monastery and moved to its new headquarters in the district of Bubeneč. Last week it opened to the public under the name Museum of Literature.

Government extends controls at Czech-Slovak border for another 15 days

Zeman to receive Babiš at Lány residence on Sunday

Thousands of people gathered on Wenceslas Square in Prague on Wednesday evening to call for an end to prejudice against LGBT+ people, which led to the homophobic murder of two young men in Bratislava earlier this month.

Czech foreign minister continues two-day visit to Qatar

When the #MeToo campaign resonated in the Western world many Czechs were openly sceptical and even ridiculed what they considered to be a typical excess of Western feminism. Then two cases of multiple rape made media headlines – one involving Domi...

Budget deficit of CZK 295 billion for 2023 passes first reading

Thousands gather on Wenceslas Square to support rights of LGBT+ people

Wolf territories in Czechia increased to 24

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Prague Castle’s Deer Moat to open to public at weekend

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Lidice tragedy, the Czech village razed to the ground by the Nazis in 1942 as revenge for the assassination of Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich. 340 people were murdered, including 88 children. For the last...

Czech MPs debated a windfall tax on profits in the energy and banking sectors in the lower house on Tuesday. The government plans to generate tens of billions from the tax from next year, not retroactively for 2022, as some voices in the coalition h...

Czechia ranked 20th in Rule of Law Index

Finance Minister: Czechia has enough gas for winter

Czech foreign minister begins two-day visit to Qatar

Rudolf Jelínek is one of Czechia’s best-known brands of slivovitz (slivovice in Czech). The plum brandy firm was set up in Moravia in the late 19th century and the brand is still going strong today. 

Exhibition at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters commemorates Lidice child victims

Czech data leaked due to Microsoft storage error

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The great Czech artist Theodor Pištěk, who turned 90 on Tuesday, won an Oscar in 1985 for his costumes for Amadeus. However, he regards himself primarily as a painter – and a cross-section of his works can now be seen at a joint exhibition in Pr...

Health minister urges people to get inoculated against Covid

Ministers from close to 50 states debating migration issues in Prague

Majority of cabinet members to be absent from Independence Day award ceremony

Greenpeace and Bund Sachsen lodge joint complaint over Turow mine

The 26th edition of the Ji.hlava International Festival of Documentary Films has just got underway. This year’s edition of Czechia’s biggest documentary event will deliver nearly 100 world premieres and several valuable retrospectives. On the ev...

2022 Ji.hlava documentary festival kicks off

Czechia’s borders closed to Russians with Schengen visas

Fiala to attend Castle honours event despite Zeman not inviting top officials

Foreigner seriously injured in shooting during Prague police raid

Over 5,000 people in Czechia have undergone gender reassignment

The world-renowned Czech conductor Libor Pešek has died at the age of 89. In a career spanning seven decades, Mr. Pešek, who was best-known for his interpretations of Czech music, helmed orchestras across Europe and headed the Czech Philharmonic, ...

Válek: November to bring more Covid, flu hospitalisations

Czechia has just over two more months at the helm of the EU and according to the Minister for European Affairs Mikuláš Bek, the hardest test of its ability as a negotiator is yet to come. Prague needs to push ahead with some of the basic agreement...

Olympic champion Ledecká speaks about summer collarbone speak

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The Skalka cable car in the Ještěd Ski Resort in Liberec undergoes a thorough safety test ahead of each season. And what better way to do that in Czechia than with beer? The process involves putting 200 fifty-litre beer kegs on the cable car to ma...

Nearly 50 ministers discussing migration at two-day Prague conference

World-renowned conductor Libor Pešek dies at 89

Covid infection rates, hospitalisations and deaths down

ČEZ to seek international arbitration over Russian outages

Number of Ukrainians with temporary protection status passes 450,000

From iconic radios to the Tamara radar

LGBT+ rally against violence set for Wenceslas Sq. Wednesday

In retaliation for the assassination of Heydrich, 262 relatives and helpers of the paratroopers from groups Anthropoid, Silver A, Bivouac, Out Distance, Steel and Intransitive were court-martialled and sentenced to death by the Prague Gestapo 80 yea...

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Prague Sounds festival kicks off with Snarky Puppy at Lucerna

Plans to ease working from home criticised from many sides

Josef Václav Mysliveček, was a famous 18th century Czech composer who spent most of his life in Italy, where he was known as the ingenious 'Il Boemo'. Musicologists speak about his significant contribution to the formation of late eighteenth-centu...

ANO presidential election plan announcement postponed till Oct 30

Annual mass for victims of Heydrich killing reprisals held in Prague

Czech government to discuss screening system for ministers and deputies

First congress of Belarusians in Czechia held in Prague

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John Cale to perform at Prague’s Archa in March

Interest in studying Russian lower since Ukraine invasion

Hundreds demand safety for LGBT+ community in Prague march

Ivan Chvatík worked closely with Jan Patočka, helping organise underground seminars for the great Czech philosopher, and since his death has done more than anybody to keep his legacy alive. Chvatík himself came to philosophy after studying nuclea...

EU transport ministers agree to review Trans-European Transport Network

Czech PM wants to do away with EU's "unhealthy dependence" on China

Fiala: Ukraine top priority for second day of EU summit

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Screenwriter and director Patrik Křivánek has become the first Czech to win a prize at the Page International Screenwriting Award competition, which aims to discover up-and-coming scriptwriters from around the world.  His story about an aging Hol...

Interior Minister to ask for 15-day extension for border checks

Czech zoos getting record visitor numbers

New organ for St. Vitus Cathedral to arrive in few weeks

The global network of Czech Centres operates as the cultural wing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, promoting the Czech Republic abroad and strengthening cultural ties between countries. There are 26 Czech Centres operating in 24 countries on thre...

The iconic Lennon Wall in Prague’s Kampa is one of the most visited sites in the Czech capital. Now a Czech artist has taken this symbol of resistance to Paris within celebrations of the Czech EU presidency.

Tennis: Marie Bouzková reaches quarterfinals of Guadalajara Open 

EU transport ministers attend informal meeting in Prague

Czech households consume about 30 percent of domestic energy, most of it for heating

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Lower House speaker calls for international criminal tribunal for war crimes in Ukraine