Thursday is the first anniversary of the shocking murder of Ján Kuciak, a
young Slovak journalist who was gunned down with his fiancé. One year on
rallies in the couple’s honour are being held in Slovakia and Prague,
Which Central Europeans are most likely to believe conspiracy theories?
Which are most nostalgic for the communist regime or pro-NATO? The answers
may well surprise you, say researchers at Globsec, a Bratislava-based
The Ministry of Defence has posthumously certified the mother of the
Mašín brothers, who famously shot their way out of Czechoslovakia in
1953, as having actively participated in the resistance against communism.
The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR) has published a
biographical encyclopaedia profiling Czechoslovak Communist Party
functionaries and leaders active in the years 1921 to 1989.
The great traveller Miroslav Zikmund turned 100 on Thursday. For
Czechoslovaks unable to travel much under communism, the books and radio
reports produced by Zikmund and his friend Jiří Hanzelka served as a
In 1946 a secret American operation in Czechoslovakia led to major
diplomatic protests. The US authorities had organized a mission aimed at
obtaining hidden Nazi documents from a cache in a forest near Prague.
The European Union and the United Kingdom must do their utmost to negotiate
an agreement on Brexit, Angela Merkel said during a meeting with prime
ministers of the Visegrad Four countries in Bratislava on Thursday. The
Wednesday marks 100 years since the establishment of the Czechoslovak
branch of the International Red Cross, today known as the Czech Red Cross.
It was founded and chaired by Alice Masaryková, the daughter of
The zoo in the Czech city of Ústí nad Labem has had to put down an Indian
elephant, a spokesperson said. The female was euthanised on Monday after
long-standing problems with its foot left it unable to stand.
Cross the Line is the title of a new exhibition of Czech and Slovak
contemporary glass design that runs from Sunday in the Czech House
Jerusalem. The exhibition is a joint project organized in cooperation with
