He studied History at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University and Development studies at Oxford Brookes University. He worked for the People in Need, and then from 2005 to 2016 at the Czech Television – first as a foreign correspondent from Russia and between 2012-16 from Poland and Ukraine. In 2011, he and his team made a successful TV documentary for the Czech Television, "Invasion of 1968. Russian view“. With his colleagues, they published a book of the same name which was published in Polish, Russian and most recently in English in the Harvard Cold War Series project.