In the early years of Radio Free Europe, the U.S. station – although
initially founded and largely secretly funded by the CIA – played a
critical role in providing balanced, objective news to listeners in the
In the early years of Radio Free Europe, the U.S. station – although
initially founded and largely secretly funded by the CIA – played a
critical role in providing balanced, objective news to listeners in the
The government has approved police president Tomáš Tuhý’s departure
for the post of Czech ambassador to Bratislava, the news site
Neovlivní.cz. reported. However, Mr. Tuhý had previously said he had no
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has drawn condemnation from both the Czech
president and prime minister for a speech she delivered on World Refugee
Day in which she said there was “no moral or political justification”
A ceremony was held in Prague on Thursday honouring General Helidor Píka,
who became the first victim of judicial murder in Czechoslovakia on 21 June
1949. He had been found guilty of treason in a Communist Party-orchestrated
show trial.
A commemorative ceremony is set to take place at the Church of Cyril and
Methodius in Prague on Monday to commemorate the brave act of resistance of
Czechoslovak paratroopers who assassinated Acting Reich Protector Reinhard
Heydrich in 1942.
The Trebbia foundation for artists and art benefactors will hand out its
annual awards at a ceremony in the Spanish Hall of Prague Castle on Sunday
evening. The prize for lifetime achievement will go to Czech opera singer
Eva Randová.
A new memorial marking a postwar massacre of Carpathian Germans will be
unveiled on Sunday afternoon on the Švédské šance hill near the
Moravian town of Přerov.
French President Emmanuel Macron, along with Czech and Slovak prime
ministers Andrej Babiš and Petr Pellegrini, will attend a ceremony marking
the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak armed forces, the
French weekly Vosges matin wrote this week.
