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Karel Gott. Phenomenal Czech singer, tenor, popular home and also abroad.

KAREL KRYL 12.4.1944 - 3.3.1994

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia

There seems to be certain confusion around what Mr. Zeman meant by saying he would step in in case the other presidential candidates fail. The media interpret it differently - some papers say Zeman would enter the second round of the election, others call it a second vote, yet others a second election. So, how does the presidential election work?

Former Czech president Vaclav Havel, hero of the Velvet Revolution that gave his country independence, has died aged 75.

In Tschechien tobt derzeit der Präsidentschaftswahlkampf. Die vergangenen Tage verliefen wohl eher unerfreulich. Medienberichten zufolge argumentierten beide Kandidaten für die Burg kaum staatsmänn…

Jan Palach (1948) - student of history and political economy at Charles University. He committed self-immolation as a political protest against the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies. #Czechia

Karel Hynek Mácha