This February marks exactly 80 years since the Czechoslovak Army started to enlist women in its services. Today, there are two female generals serving in the Czech military. The first one to be promoted to the rank of general was Lenka Šmerdová nea...

President Putin’s decision to recognize the independence of the breakaway Ukrainian republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and station troops in Donbas under the guise of protecting Russian citizens there has raised hackles in the Czech Republic, bringin...

Czech officials: Putin’s aggression reminiscent of 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia Published: Tuesday, February 22, 2022Full story: Radio Prague

In the recently published Memory Speaks, the linguist Julie Sedivy explores the deep connections between language, memory, identity and migration. As well as drawing on science, the book is also something of a memoir. Sedivy’s own family left Czech...

Forty years ago, on February 20, 1982, USD 250 million worth of Czechoslovak Republic's gold reserves, which were stolen by the Nazis folowing the occupation of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939, was returned to its rightful owner.  Published: S...

The Czech Republic’s annual Muriel Award for the best comic book of the year was given to Štefánik, a graphic novel about one of the founders of Czechoslovakia. The novel, a joint endeavour by writer Michal Baláže, Gabriela Kyselová and illust...

The Czech Republic’s annual Muriel Award for the best comic book of the year was given to Štefánik, a graphic novel about one of the founders of Czechoslovakia. The novel, a joint endeavour by writer Michal Baláže, Gabriela Kyselová and illust...

The great Czech film director Miloš Forman would have been 90 on February 18. After creating some of the best films of the Czechoslovak New Wave, Forman enjoyed a second career in Hollywood, winning two Oscars. We speak to some people who knew him. ...

Czechoslovakia was officially connected to the Internet on February 13, 1992 at an event hosted by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague-Dejvice. The first ever connection had a speed of 19.2 kilobits per s...

Michal Krecul, today aged 98, was a Gulag survivor, decorated Czechoslovak WWII soldier and later political prisoner who left for the West in 1968. A new study by a Czech historian finds that he also went unpunished for his part in the killing of 10 ...

The Czech minister of foreign affairs has started a two-day visit to Ukraine intended to show support for the Kyiv government in the fact of strong Russian pressure. Jan Lipavský and his Slovak and Austrian counterparts are also travelling to the Do...

Czech media entrepreneur Michal Voráček buys Slovak TV station TA3 Published: Wednesday, January 26, 2022Full story: Radio Prague

The oldest member of the Czech Scout movement, Eduard Marek, died on Sunday at the age of 104. Marek was imprisoned by both the Nazi and Communist regimes and was active in the Czechoslovak resistance. In later life he also made a mark by becoming on...

The annual Ice Sculpting Festival in Pustevny is an event that attracts many visitors to the Beskydy Mountains each winter. This year, seven Czech and Slovak artists created a total of 25 statues from 40 tons of ice. The artists were inspired by the ...

Fiala visits Bratislava on first international trip as PM Published: Tuesday, January 11, 2022Full story: Radio Prague

Czech PM Petr Fiala to make first official visit abroad to Slovakia Published: Monday, January 10, 2022Full story: Radio Prague

The first airfield built in Czechoslovakia after the country’s founding in 1918, Prague’s Kbely airfeld is one of the most important sites for the history of Czech aviation. Today, it is home to the Kbely Aviation Museum, a one-of-a-kind showcase...

Petr Uhl, a co-founder of the Charter 77 human rights movement along with Václav Havel and among the longest-imprisoned dissidents under the communist regime, has died at the age of 80. Although a lifelong leftist, Petr Uhl never joined the party an...

This Saturday marks the centenary of the birth of Alexander Dubček, one of the most charismatic leaders of 20th century Czechoslovakia who led the country during the Prague Spring. A Communist Party loyalist, Dubček is seen today largely as a tragi...

The Czech Republic is one of the least vulnerable countries when it comes to Russian and Chinese malign activities in the Central European and Western Balkan regions, according to a newly published Vulnerability Index, produced by the Bratislava-base...

This Wednesday will see the 32nd anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution that ended totalitarian communist rule in Czechoslovakia. To mark the occasion, several events are taking place in Prague and in the wider Czech Republic. Unlike last ...

History remembers Gustáv Husák, the last communist president of Czechoslovakia, as the face of a spineless regime that ruled during the Normalisation era. He had risen to power in the wake of the Soviet-led invasion that crushed the Prague Spring �...

Slovak president visits Czech Republic on eve of 32nd anniversary of Velvet Revolution Published: Tuesday, November 16, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

Slovak president to visit ailing Czech head of state in hospital Published: Tuesday, November 16, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

Slovak president Zuzana Čaputová to receive Senate’s Silver Medal Award Published: Saturday, November 13, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

Legendary Slovak pop star Miroslav Žbirka dies at 69 Published: Thursday, November 11, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

Key Visegrad Group (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) stakeholders see Germany as an important bilateral partner and what the EU to expand further south and east. They are also more hopeful about prospects for better relations with the United State...

103rd anniversary of foundation of Czechoslovakia celebrated Published: Thursday, October 28, 2021Full story: Radio Prague

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Václav Havel, the dissident playwright, human rights activist, and first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia. In honour of his memory, a commemorative sheet, resembling a banknote, has been...

Leading cultural personalities awarded on occasion of Czechoslovak Independence Day Published: Monday, October 25, 2021Full story: Radio Prague