A Slovak national arrested in Prague last year on suspicion of planning a
terrorist attack has been charged with terrorist activities and propagating
Islamic State.
The Czech Republic is Europe’s top toy distributor, exporting more than
50 billion crowns now annually, according to a new study by UniCredit bank.
LEGO, Playmobil and similar plastic toy sets account for two-thirds of
Czech Airlines (ČSA) will cancel its flights from Prague to Ostrava and
Bratislava as of January 11 and also discontinue service between the Slovak
capital and Košice.
The first Czechoslovak postage stamps were issued 100 years ago on this
day. The stamps – which went on sale less than two months after the
foundation of the country – featured an image of the Prague Castle
The Czech Republic is Europe’s biggest exporter of toys, suggests an
analysis carried out by UniCredit bank. Czech production of toys last year
amounted to a total of 51.6 billion crowns.
The short-lived secret organisation Světlana formed in 1948 grew to become
the largest anti-Communist group in Czechoslovakia, boasting several
hundred members at its peak, operating in more than a dozen cells, mainly
One of the most fascinating Cold War spy tales, involving a Czechoslovak
operative who fooled a woman into thinking he was her long abandoned son,
is
being adopted as a screenplay by a Hollywood studio. Jaroslav Kmenta, who
The Czech Republic and France are holding breakfasts with human rights and
democracy campaigners at their embassies around the world on Tuesday. The
meetings commemorate a famous breakfast at Prague’s French Embassy on
