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In the second half of the 19th century, many Czechs moved east and settled in Ukraine. They had a reputation as good farmers and the Russian Czar attracted them to the country with the offer of cheap land. More than a century later, exactly ten years ago, in April 1991, descendants of these settlers, many of whom had never lost their links with Czech culture and the Czech language, began to return to the land of their forebears. The Czechoslovak government agreed to offer them social benefits and citizenship. takes a look at how this almost forgotten

Reports coming from Kosovo are usually quite disconcerting. Too often we hear about acts of pointless violence and expressions of nationalistic hatred. But this story is different. The Czech branch of the international Adventist Relief Agency ADRA has just opened a new school in the impoverished Northern Kosovo municipality of Ballovc, a small ethnic Albanian town twenty kilometres north of Prishtina, and just a stone's throw from Kosovo's troubled border with Southern Serbia. Our man in Prishtina, , sent us the following despatch.