Moscow
May 21st, 2008Images from Moscow around the days of the Victory Parade which took place at the 9th of May 2008.
Images from Moscow around the days of the Victory Parade which took place at the 9th of May 2008.
Yakutsk is a city in the Russian Far East, located about 4° (450 kilometres) below the Arctic Circle. It is the capital of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (formerly the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), Russia and a major port on the Lena River.
Yakutsk is one of the coldest cities on earth with winter temperatures averaging […]
Karel Schwarzenberg is a longtime friend of Vaclav Havel, and a member of Forum 2000. From 1984 to 1990 he was chairman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. Since January 9, 2007, he has been Minister of the Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.
Albin Hill established Hill’s Liguere in 1920. He started out as a wine wholesaler and soon after he began producing his own liquor and liqueurs. In 1947 his son Radomil Hill continues this tradition and today his daughter Ilona Musialova is leading the company producing Hill’s Absinth in Jindrichuv Hradec.
Karel Gott is one of the most successful and widely-known Czech singers today, as well as an accomplished painter. Images from 2006/2007.
Czech Government officially agreed with negotiations about the possible US radar base in the Czech Republic. The negotiations will last approximately to the end of the year. However, it is not sure, if the radar base will be approved by the Czech Parliament. The Civic Democratic Party and the Christian and Democratic Union are in […]
The Skoda Auto factory is situated in the town of Mlada Boleslav about 50 km north east from Prague. The Skoda car plant - a company with more than 100 years tradition - is nowadays one of the most progressive business projects in the Czech Republic. The Czech car producer Skoda Auto is subsidiary of […]
Goalball is a team sport designed for blind athletes. It was devised by an Austrian, Hanz Lorenzen, and a German, Sepp Reindle, in 1946 in an effort to help in the rehabilitation of visually impaired World War II veterans. I photographed the Czech Paralympic GOALBALL team as part of my MA degree work in between […]
Jiri Menzel was nominated for the Berlinale Competition with his film Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále (I Served the King of England).
Budweiser Budvar brewery is one of the most successful food-production enterprises in Czech Republic. Most of the production is successfully exported into more than 60 countries on 5 continents.