Czech Republic

The annual folkloric event of the Ride of the Kings was held in Vlčnov, and a 9-year-old boy, František Janča, was chosen as king and led a horseback procession through the village; for young men, the event represents the transition to adulthood

According to a recent NATO study, the Czech Republic is among the countries most targeted by Russian hybrid activities, along with Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Great Britain

The 79th edition of the Prague Spring International Music Festival, the country's largest and oldest classical music festival, will kick off next Sunday with a performance of Bedřich Smetana's My Country by the Berliner Philharmoniker

A Holocaust Memorial for Roma and Sinti will be unveiled today at the site of a former concentration camp in Lety, South Bohemia; between 1942 and 1943, some 1.300 Roma passed through the camp and more than 300 died there, mostly women and children

Prague is witnessing a surge in Airbnb prices, which have increased by about 25% due to high demand, prompting the government to plan new regulations

The annual March for Life, organized by the largest pro-life activist group, took place in Prague with an estimated turnout of several hundred people; counter-protesters also gathered and blocked the procession from crossing the Legion Bridge

Prague Municipal District 1 launched an initiative to help area residents address common problems aimed at curbing depopulation and reassuring residents that the heart of the city is actually a comfortable place to live and not just a reserve for tourists

Plans have been unveiled to build a gigafactory for electric car battery production worth €7,9 billion by an undisclosed foreign investor in the Karviná region

An 82-year-old man died of diphtheria in the Czech Republic, the first death from this cause recorded in the country since 1969

The Czech Lower House approved a bill on same-sex marriages that would give same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual married couples, with the exception of the adoption of children

For the next three years, scientists from the Czech University of Life Sciences will try to understand whether increasing wolf numbers in the Šumava National Park can have a positive impact on local forests by monitoring local wolf and deer populations

The House approved an amendment to the law regulating gun ownership to make it more restrictive, allowing a weapon to be seized for preventive reasons and requiring businesses selling firearms to report any suspicious purchases to the police