CR: Another request for Rath’s release to be considered Monday District court in Prague will hear another request for release on Monday from the jailed former governor of Central Bohemia David Rath. The court will decide whether the defendant can be released from jail pending trial in...

CR: Borderlands are fascinating areas where cultures either meet and intermingle, or in some cases are cordoned off to coldly stare at one another. The Czech/German/Austrian tri-border has experienced both. Over the last century it went from being an imaginary line through the woods to a...

CR: The Šumava National park is one of the Czech Republic’s indisputable natural treasures. A vast 100km long stretch of forest running along the south-western border of the country, the area has been protected since the early 1960s and a nature reserve has existed within this zone since...

CR: After hours of debate the opposition-controlled Senate on Wednesday rejected a controversial bill on the restitution of church property. Under the legislation the state would secure the transfer of part of the land and property seized by the communist regime in the 1950s and pay tens of...

CR: A controversial campaign by the opposition Social Democrats directed against the church property restitution bill has turned into a major brawl with Czech Catholics and other churches. After church officials compared it to anti-Semitic and anti-clerical propaganda of the Third Reich,...

CR: Anti-corruption police raided the offices of the CzechInvest state agency in Prague on Wednesday, confiscating documents, laptops and computers. Although the police have placed an information embargo on the case it has emerged that CzechInvest, set up by the Trade and Industry Ministry...

Převzaté reakce z diskuzkuzních fór :   Milan Pepo, Semněvice Středa, 18.září 2013, 10:48:25  Opět musím připomenout. Je zvláštní, aby se stejném názoru shodly tak odlišné zdroje. Christian Science Monitor Inopressa 23.8. 2013. AP, Reuters, SANA, ITAR-TASS a Fondsk.ru 24.8. 2013....