Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will attend the NATO summit Nov. 19-20 in Lisbon. “I will go to the Russia-NATO summit,” he said at an Oct. 19 press conference. “This will further the work for necessary compromises and developing a dialogue between the Russian Federation and the North Atlantic alliance as a whole.” U.S. President Barack [...]

It was hard to notice, but a former United States’ plan for missile defense in Europe is becoming a NATO plan. And the project is receiving endorsement at the highest levels… NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen (with the likely help of a team of public relations experts) penned a opinion piece in today’s International [...]

On Oct. 8 jailed dissident intellectual Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China,” according to the Prize committee. On Oct. 11 Liu’s wife went to visit him in prison. Upon returning home she was placed under house arrest. Chinese prison officials reportedly [...]

Check out today’s print edition of The Prague Post for details about how tensions between President Václav Klaus and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg could be working to divide the governing coalition. Here are a few excerpts from our interview with political analyst Bohumil Doležal (former chief political advisor to Klaus when he was prime minister) [...]

  When was the last time you heard a European leader speak about Bosnia-Herzogovina? Well, today, the state that was created in 1995 on Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio held elections at a time that is as close to becoming failed-state as it has been since the brutal wars of the early 1990s. The [...]

Taking your political party into opposition is a good thing for reorganizing and reconstituting yourself after  an election defeat. In the case of the Social Democrats (ČSSD), they actually entered opposition after winning an election (though they were unable to find potential coalition partners). ČSSD is still severely disorganized (they don’t even officially have a [...]

An attempt to end the United States’  “don’t ask don’t tell” policy on gays serving  in the military died in the Senate Sept. 21. The policy dates from 1993, during the presidency of Bill Clinton. At the time, it replaced the  previous policy of the Reagan administration which said that “homosexuality is incompatible with military [...]

    At least 10 people died Saturday and hundreds of polling stations never opened during voting for Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections, according to The New York Times. The vote came a year after the highly flawed reelection of President Hamid Karzai, and people were choosing among more than 2,500 candidates to fill 249 seats in [...]

Read about the City Council’s proposal to legalize, regulate and tax prostitution in the Sept. 15 edition of The Prague Post. The proposal seeks to limit prostitution to brothels and forces prostitutes to register for a license pending regular health checks. The Council will vote on a bill put forth by Deputy Mayor Rudolf Blažek [...]

Prague residents awoke Sunday morning to (or more likely were awoken by) the sounds of street cleaners. While the city does usually do a commendable job of cleaning gutters, sweeping streets and emptying trash bins (at least in the city center), the scale and timing of things Sunday had the ring of something different — [...]