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) [...]