News

24-05-2013 14:43 CEST | Jan Richter

• A US citizen suspected of murdering four people in Brno has been arrested in Washington, DC.  
• Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek has expressed doubts about the planned expansion of the Temelín nuclear plant.  
• A Russian Orthodox priest who stood up in defence of the band Pussy Riot has been granted asylum in the Czech Republic.  
• President Zeman has proposed the chief justice of the Constitutional Court for another ten-year term.  
• Javelin champion Barbora Špotáková has given birth to a son.  

Current Affairs

California man wanted over Brno murders detained after fleeing to US

24-05-2013 14:40 | Rob Cameron

Kevin Dahlgren, photo: CTK

Police in Brno have said an American man wanted in connection of the murder of a Czech family in Brno has been arrested after stepping off a flight from Vienna to Washington D.C. Twenty-year-old Kevin Dahlgren was being sought by police in both the Czech Republic and abroad after four bodies were discovered in the house in Brno where he was staying. According to Czech media reports, the victims were relatives.  More

Marketplace

Despite depressed economy, international franchisers expand on Czech market

22-05-2013 16:46 | Jan Richter

The Czech franchise market registered massive growth last year, with more international brands looking to expand in the region in the coming months. At a time of recession and falling household spending, both domestic and international franchisers say there are good opportunities in the Czech Republic in terms of labour and real estate costs. More

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In Focus

Prague city gallery brings back life and history to an Old Town palace

21-05-2013 16:31 | Masha Volynsky

The City of Prague Gallery was given custodianship of the Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace in Prague’s Old Town a few years ago. The gallery is finally ready to open the building to the public, and possibly make it one of its main exhibition and educational sites.  More

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One on One

Gisela Cheffer: “I even sat on the lap of some Nazis. Of course, they had no idea that my father was Jewish”

20-05-2013 13:16 | Ian Willoughby

Gisela Cheffer was born Gisela Duschinský in Brno in 1932. Her Viennese father was Jewish, which made her a target for the Nazis, and her baptism as a Roman Catholic very likely saved her life. She later came close to being forced to leave during the mass expulsion of Czechoslovakia’s German population after the war. But she stayed – until, that is, a meeting with a Finn led to a life abroad. More

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Special

Prague students bring the past to life for the radio’s 90th birthday

18-05-2013 02:01 | David Vaughan

It is exactly 90 years since the very first regular radio broadcasts in Czechoslovakia began on 18 May 1923. These were humble beginnings, starting in a borrowed scouts’ tent on the edge of Prague. But within just a few years, radio became central to the lives of millions of Czechoslovaks and over the decades the archives here in the Czech Radio headquarters have become an Aladdin’s Cave of sound, a living audio source for anyone wanting to research into twentieth century Czechoslovak history. More

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