The Czech government agreed Wednesday to pay billions of dollars in compensation to churches for property seized by the former Communist government. The deal threatened to topple the coalition government earlier this week after a junior partner voiced anger at the thought of huge sums being paid to churches in the middle of the European debt...
MOSCOW -- The Czech Republic granted political asylum on Friday to the husband of the jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia V. Tymoshenko, who said he sought refuge to prevent the authorities from putting pressure on her through her family. The husband, Oleksandr Tymoshenko, left Ukraine late last year and formally applied for asylum shortly...
Josef Skvorecky, a renowned Czech author who drew on his experiences under the Nazis and the Communists to write fiction that captured the corruptions and humiliations of the 20th century, died on Tuesday in Toronto. He was 87 and had lived and continued to write in Canada for many years. One of his translators, Paul Wilson, who confirmed the...
Tjekkiet (formelt: Den Tjekkiske Republik), Tjekkisk: Česko (formelt: Česká republika) er med sine nuværende grænser et ungt land. Det blev dannet den 1. januar 1993 som den ene af to arvtagere efter det tidligere Tjekkoslovakiet. Tjekkiet består af de to historiske landskaber Bøhmen og Mähren og en lille del af landskabet Schlesien. Det er omgivet af land på alle sider og grænselandene er Tyskland i nord og vest, Østrig i syd, Slovakiet i øst, og Polen i nord.
I 1989 gennemlevede det gamle Tjekkoslovakiet den fredelige Fløjlsrevolution, og landet blev pr. 1. januar 1993 delt i Tjekkiet og Slovakiet. Tjekkiet blev medlem af NATO i 1999 og den 1. maj 2004 medlem af EU.
Landet består af de to historiske landskaber Bøhmen og Mähren, samt en lille del af landskabet Schlesien. Fold ud