Prague - Acclaimed Czech-born writer Milan Kundera turned in a Western agent as a student during the Stalinist era, leading to the man's imprisonment at a labour camp, a magazine reported Monday.
Police records show that Kundera, then a 20-year-old Prague film student, denounced a young Czech exile who was spying in his native country in 1950, the Respekt weekly said.
Kundera, who later gained fame as an anti-communist dissident and international acclaim for his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, told Czechoslovak police that a former military pilot who worked for Western intelligence after escaping to Germany was staying with a female friend at a dormitory, the report said.
Prague- Counting began in the Czech Republic's regional and Senate election Saturday as polling stations closed.
Prague - Czech voters Friday began casting ballots in regional and Senate elections that could shake up Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's rule and affect the country's ratification of the EU Lisbon Treaty.
Prague - The Czech government approved a legislative proposal Tuesday that doubles savings guarantees to 50,000 euros (68,000 dollars) in a bid to prevent people from pulling out their money from Czech banks, officials said.
Prague - A murky post-communist past of privatization deals and influence peddling is catching up with Czech politicians of all stripes as election season nears. But will it have an impact?
