Czech Republic

From the Czech Republic and Germany to the Indian state of Kerala, governments that dealt decisively with the first wave of the coronavirus are drowning in the second wave.

Competition among China, Russia, and the West is taking the form of a battle to build reactors in Eastern Europe.

A local Czech politician tells China’s foreign minister not to “open your trap” again about his country’s relations with Taiwan.

Beijing is trying to use the pandemic to regain lost influence. It won’t be that easy.

Three Prague officials are under police protection following reports of a poison plot.

The Russian president’s amateur history lessons are outraging neighboring countries. While he is right to criticize a recent EU Parliament resolution, his historical revisionism doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

City-level opposition could be the key to defeating populism in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and beyond.

Pakistan’s military boom is an economic bust, and looking back on the Christchurch attack.

Eastern Europe has long resisted same-sex marriage. Prague might be about to change that.

How has the Czech Republic avoided the nationalist populism tearing apart Poland and Hungary? By not taking itself too seriously.

When politicians own the press, trolls have the last laugh.

Steve Bannon is trying to sell Trumpism to Eastern Europeans—but shared ideologies die hard when they run into economic and military realities.

The fall of a shadowy Chinese oil magnate may bring a reckoning to cozy Czech-Chinese relations.

Russian corruption starts small but quickly spreads.