Dearth of Slovak on contemporary Czech TV a pity, says Czech language expert
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Zachranari, photo: www.czech-tv.cz I discussed the issue with Karel Oliva of the Institute for the Czech Language, who says in the past Czechs were exposed to Slovak all the time.
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Jeremy Paxman has attacked the BBC, claiming its future could be in jeopardy if it loses sight of the need for quality programming.
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The Czechs would like to win the World Cup of Hockey for their late coach Ivan Hlinka. If that is to happen, they'll have to perform with much more enthusiasm and enterprise than they displayed last night.
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BRATISLAVA, Jan 25 (IPS) - The resignation of a senior minister following the  publication of files identifying him  as a communist secret  police agent has provoked one of the largest public debates on   Slovakia's communist past since the fall of communism 15  years ago.
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He stated this in an interview to the program Epitsentr on the 1+1 tv channel. Grim forecasts about the "forcible" scenario have belied, Mr Kuchma said.
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If there were still any doubts about the  growing influence of the Polish community in Britain, a Welsh  TV channel may well have dispelled them.
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Wednesday nightâs episode of this PBS mini-series has one sequence that could be particularly helpful, or perhaps just frustrating, for current late-night talk show hosts.
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PRAGUE, Feb 8 (IPS) - Slovakia's opposition is endangering approval  of the EU Treaty through its protest against a media bill that it  claims will endanger freedom of speech in Slovakia.
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There are YouTube videos that may be described as "un-tasteworthy in the extreme," and then there are those that draw the attention of world leaders for precisely that reason. Today, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith of Australia issued an (audio statement) condemning a video that accuses his country of racism, according to Agence France-Presse: "It is un-tasteworthy [...].
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Former President Vaclav Havel today warned Czechs that failure to ratify the European Union constitution would result in them losing their influence over the process of European integration.
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The English language is being destroyed by a "deadly virus of management speak" which has infected the mouths and minds of politicians like Tony Blair and George W. Bush, a leading UK journalist said Monday.
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The Czech Romany Parliament association wants to put pressure on Vladimir Spidla, the Czech Republic's European Commissioner-designate, not to add government human rights commissioner Jan Jarab to his team in ...
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A Dutch television show is criticised for offering a terminally ill woman's kidneys as a prize.
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ONE OF THE MOST significant figures in contemporary music and musical theatre, Meredith Monk, is coming to Slovakia.
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The BBC's Jan Repa examines how Eastern Europe is dealing with communist-era police informers.
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A POLISH doctor claims that his 30-year career was tarnished in a few days after being sacked as a locum consultant at a Highland hospital.
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"The possible privatization of Budvar is really not on the agenda now"  Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic -- Just the thought alone is enough to make a Czech patriot cry in his beer. via Springfield News Leader