After a recent expansion trend for Czech cultural centers abroad (read more here), the Foreign Ministry announced last week they would be closing Czech centers in Buenos Aires and Košice, Eastern Slovakia in February due to budget shortfalls in 2011. The Košice center will be incorporated into the center in Bratislava, and along with the [...]

Czech Embassy officials were on hand for the ribbon-cutting of the Czech Language and Cultural Center that opened last week at Baku Slavic University in the Azerbaijani capital, the latest example of the Czech government exchanging a little cultural capital for the harder currency of positive diplomatic relations. Though small, the collection at the center [...]