People across the Czech Republic are commemorating the anniversary of the
occupation of Czechoslovakia by Hitler’s Germany on this day 80 years
ago, which was followed by the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia
The Czech capital offers the best quality of life among the cities of the
former Eastern bloc, according to the latest survey by the US consultancy
Mercer.
The Czech capital offers the best quality of life among the cities of the
former Eastern bloc, according to the latest survey by the US consultancy
Mercer.
A controversial promoter who in recent years has staged short-term
exhibitions of “real naked women” in the Slovak and Czech capitals has
announced plans for a long-term instalment on Prague’s Wenceslas Square.
Russia is striving to undermine the unity of NATO member states, Slovak
President Andrej Kiska said at a security conference in Prague marking
twenty years since the alliance’s first expansion eastwards.
In the spring of 1989, the dissident Václav Havel was in prison and the
Czechoslovak army was preparing for a possible clash with Western
imperialists under the banner “With the Soviet Union forever.” A decade
The number of childless women in the Czech Republic continues to increase.
While in the 1970s and 80s, only five to seven percent of women living in
then communist Czechoslovakia didn’t have children, the Czech Statistics
Twenty years ago this Tuesday, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary
became the first former Eastern Bloc countries to join NATO, with Slovakia
entering five years later, when all four joined the EU. The anniversary
A ceremony is set to take place in Prague on Thursday commemorating 110
years since the birth of Ryszard Siwiec, a Polish man who set himself on
fire in protest at Poland’s involvement in the occupation of
Czechoslovakia in August 1968.
The first Czechoslovak President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was born exactly
169 years ago and Czech politicians as well as the wider public are
remembering the figure through a series of ceremonies. Representatives of
