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The Czech word 'losos' is part of a big and ancient family of words, some members of which English speakers may know.
For this week's Sunday Music Show, we’re celebrating the life and music of Karel Fiala, the charismatic Czech singer and actor, who was born on August 3rd 1925.
Czech citizens based abroad will have the possibility to vote by post in October's general elections. The deadline to sign up is less than three weeks away.
Czech archaeologists have announced a major discovery. During a rescue excavation along the future route of the D35 motorway near Hradec Králové, they unearthed a Celtic settlement, unprecedented in ...
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský thanked his German counterpart Johann Wadephul in Prague for Germany’s support of the Czech-led ammunition initiative for Ukraine. With over one billion euros ...
Ondřej Provazník is the writer-director of Broken Voices, a new Czech drama that has been inspired by a real-life sexual abuse scandal in a well-known girls' choir.
Renowned Czech cameraman Vladimír Smutný has died at the age of 82. Smutný is an eight-time winner of the Czech Lion Award for Best Camera. He worked with director Jan Svěrák on his Oscar-winning film ...
Prague’s Staroměstská metro station will remain closed for about a month after a weekend fire damaged its escalators, the city’s transport operator DPP said on Monday. The fire broke out on Saturday ...
Czech tennis player Kateřina Siniaková will compete for a spot in the mixed doubles final at Wimbledon today alongside Dutch partner Sem Verbeek. The Olympic gold medallist in mixed doubles, who ...
Tucked away in the southwestern part of Prague, Prokopské údolí, or Prokop Valley, is a remarkable blend of history, geology, and nature.
Thirty-five years ago, on June -8-9, Czechs and Slovaks went to the polls in the first free elections held after the fall of the communist regime.
More than 150 years after its Czech debut, Bedřich Smetana’s opera Dalibor was performed for the first time in the United ...