Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. On the first day of our assignment in the Czech Republic, Nina Riggio, the intrepid, Vienna-based freelance photographer I was partnered with, told me that she had been a competitive climber and that she had […]
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Bringing the Noise On a Saturday afternoon late last month, a two-vehicle caravan loaded with national team players made the three-hour drive from Prague to Brno for a full national team workout at the Cardion Hrosi club. Along the way, the players, many of whom have played and traveled together since high school, stopped at […]
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LUXEMBOURG — Luxembourg’s military consists of fewer than 1,000 troops, one cargo plane, two helicopters shared with police forces and fewer than 200 trucks, ranging from Humvees to about 10 state-of-the-art Dingo combat reconnaissance vehicles. There are no tanks, warplanes or Patriot air defense missiles to contribute to the Western push to arm Ukraine. The […]
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The decoupling of Chinese and local interests, according to Mr. Hala, the Prague-based China scholar, began with the realization that Chinese investment was “not just free money falling from the sky.” In the Czech Republic, this became clear in 2018, when CEFC China Energy, which had spent more than $1 billion on deals in the […]
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James Bond, poisoned by a villain in the film “Casino Royale,” almost died in the forecourt of the Grandhotel Pupp, a majestic reinvention of what, under Communism, was called the Grand Hotel Moskva, a shabby lodge popular with members of the Czech and Soviet nomenklatura. Rival hotels in the area have complained that widespread hostility […]
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