One-quarter of the players in Czech football’s top division are
foreigners, iRozhlas.cz reported on Tuesday. Of the 354 players who made
appearances in the autumn part of the season, 90 were not from the Czech
Republic, the news site said.
Fifty years ago this January, Jan Palach doused himself in petrol and set
himself alight on Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet occupation of
Czechoslovakia. Prague City Hall is now looking to buy the former hospital
In her book The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the
1968 Prague Spring, historian Paulina Bren offers fresh perspectives on
various aspects of Czechoslovakia’s normalisation period. These include
The Ukrainian ambassador to Prague, Yevhen Perebyjnis, has hit back at a
statement by former Czech president Václav Klaus, who said on Sunday that
Ukraine was being goaded by Western political elites, including that of the
The nominations have been announced for the ninth annual Czech Film
Critics’ Awards to be presented on February 2 at Prague’s Archa
Theatre. Director Robert Sedláček’s film Jan Palach about the student
who took his own life in protest of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of
Earlier this year the Czech Republic marked the 80th anniversary of the
Munich Agreement, signed in September 1938 by the leaders of Germany,
France, Great Britain, and Italy, resulting in the annexation of the
Super welterweight Lukáš Konečný, widely considered to be the most
successful Czech boxer in modern history, won his comeback fight in Prague
on Thursday evening, beating his Slovak opponent Matúš Babiak by
unanimous decision.
Dr. Paul Ort’s mother and grandfather were murdered by the Nazis in
reprisals that followed the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. A childhood
friend of Vaclav Havel’s, the then Pavel Ort escaped from Communist
His ancestors were among the most influential nobility in Bohemia, but
unlike many others, they chose to remain in Czechoslovakia after the
communist takeover. Now Děpolt Czernin is doing his best to protect a
famous Czech tradition – “Ježíšek”. He has founded a society
