Easter is a very important celebration both in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, called Velikonoce – from Veliké noci or Great Nights. Although the religious connotations of Easter were suppressed ...

People dressed in black suits and white masks pushed small carts along cobbled streets in the southern Czech city of Ceske Budejovice on Friday in a revival of an Easter tradition. (AP Video: ...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin's declaration of a temporary ceasefire on the Easter holiday amount to little more than "a media stunt," Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on April 20. Putin ...