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With top representatives of 46 states expected to stay in the city from the 20th to the 22nd of November, Prague's smart hotels too have to make sure everything will be ready for the exceptional and numerous guests. I'm now standing outside Prague's Renaissance Hotel where I'm about to meet Helena Dunn, a Czech-born American interior designer. She's currently redesigning some parts of the hotel for it to be able to receive all those important guests.

After his recent Stanley Cup win and his subsequent retirement from ice hockey, the legendary goaltender Dominik Hasek is now back home in the Czech Republic. In this week's Profile Pavla Horakova looks at the life and career of the outstanding Czech ice-hockey player.

Knowing that with the exception of the "Second Sex" by Simone de Beauvoir, published in the 60s, there was literally no feminist or gender-focused literature available in Czech, Marie Chribkova, a young cultural activist, decided to introduce world feminist writing to the Czech readership and founded her own publishing house. In this week's Profile Pavla Horakova talks to Marie Chribkova about the hardships and joys of a small-scale publisher in the Czech Republic.

Will Czech politics be better or worse off without him? Did his famous candid statements harm Czech foreign policy or lower the general standard of the country's political culture? The man in the spotlight is the outgoing prime minister, Milos Zeman. You can find out more about one of the most remarkable figures on the Czech political scene in this edition of Profile with Pavla Horakova.

One of the biggest Czech pop stars of the sixties, Waldemar Matuska, is turning 70 in a few weeks. In this week's Profile Pavla Horakova looks at the life of this famous Czech singer after four decades spent at the forefront of the Czech pop-music scene.

Viktor Janis is a young and successful literary translator. Among his translations are works by such renowned authors as Graham Greene, Isaac Asimov, Iain Banks, Hanif Kureishi, Tom Clancy or Louis de Bernieres. Viktor has already gained recognition for his work in literary translation but that is not the only way in which he contributes to the overall quality of Czech translation. In this week's edition of Profile Pavla Horakova spoke to Viktor Janis after she visited one rather unusual award ceremony at the annual Book Fair.

The fall of communism twelve years ago affected people in different ways. Some believe they have lost their old securities, some feel threatened by rising crime or the world around them getting ever more complicated. But some have taken the opportunity to indulge in their own particular passions. One such person is Vladka Dobiasova. She exchanged the tedium of office work for what had been her hobby since childhood. Vladka is a collector of pretty much everything related to clothes and fashion.

Most listeners of the Czech Republic's national radio station Radiozurnal will recognise the voice of presenter Jana Klusakova, but few people know much about the person behind it. In the first edition of Profile - which is Radio Prague's brand new feature devoted to the lives of contemporary Czechs - Pavla Horakova introduces radio journalist Jana Klusakova.