Czech Republic News

A 56-year-old man today died of swine flu that aggravated his overall severe health condition, Karlovy Vary hospital spokeswoman Zdenka Markova has told CTK.

A rare white tigress was killed by two lions at the Liberec Zoo in north Bohemia on Thursday, as zookeepers stood by helpless, unable to prevent the tragedy.

PRAGUE: Twenty years after the peaceful coup that toppled communism in their country, leaders of the 1989 Velvet Revolution agree that Czechs have yet to properly settle accounts with history.

A comparison of democracy in the first Czechoslovak Republic and the first 20 years of post-Communist democracy does not indicate that the current democracy is internally stronger than its predecessor, Dan Hruby writes in weekly Reflex out Thursday.

Many in the Middle East are too young to remember what happened in 1989. Most would know something of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the protests in Tiananmen Square.

A rare white tiger has been killed by two lions in a zoo in northern Czech Republic, a zoo official said Thursday.

Twenty years ago, the people of Czechoslovakia carried forward the wave of freedom that began in the Polish shipyards, surged over the Wall in Berlin, and ultimately liberated millions of people across Europe.

Czech politics is becoming empty 20 years after the November 1989 revolution, opening up space for other, dangerous ideas, and also giving greater chances to "Havlism," President Vaclav Klaus says in an interview for today's issue of daily Mlada fronta Dnes .

A Seal Harbor summer resident was sentenced this past week in New York on bribery charges.

College students in the Czech Republic are gathering today to retrace the steps of a march that took place on the 17th of November 1989, which changed the course of Czechoslovak history.

Famous Czech photographer Ladislav Sitensky died in Prague on Saturday at the age of 90 years, his grand-daughter Tereza Horka-Sitenska told CTK Sunday.

Czech-Japanese entrepreneur Tomio Okamura is a household name in the Czech Republic, both for running a successful tourist business to representing one of the country's largest tourist associations.

With their country in deep political crisis, Czechs took to the streets throughout the country Tuesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of decades of repressive communist rule.

A man died of swine flu consequences in a hospital in Ostrava on Friday, being the second victim of this disease in the Czech Republic, hospital spokesman Tomas Oborny told CTK Saturday.

"Yes, Marc, I have received the news of Vladimir Lomeiko's untimely death," Boris Pankin , the last Soviet foreign minister, wrote to me just last week.

The Czech Republic has lost two renowned photographers, Ladislav Sitensky and Jan Reich, both of whom died at the weekend, the former at the age of 90, the other at just 67.

The Czech police together with the military police detained yesterday three employees of the Defence Ministry suspected of possessing and distributing child porn, Prague police spokeswoman Iva Knolova has told CTK.

Former Czech president Vaclav Havel has been the only Czech politician to face up to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in the country, Martin Zverina writes in the daily Lidove noviny today, commenting on Havel's speech on Saturday.

The fall of the Czech government during the Czech Republic' EU presidency and the procrastination with the ratification of the EU reform Lisbon treaty were mistakes, Czech-born former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright said in a debate with students in Prague Saturday.

The nomination of European Affairs Minister Stefan Fuele for EU commissioner has revealed that the ideological understanding of the way of the world and the Czech and European society still prevails in the Czech Republic, Petr Uhl writes in the daily Pravo today.