Miroslav Karas (CZE)

Miroslav Karas is a permanent fixture of the Czech public media. As a fresh graduate in journalism, he started in the children's newsroom of Czechoslovak Radio, and in 1992 he moved to the foreign newsroom and became a correspondent in Poland. He worked for Czech Radio until 1998, when he moved to a similar position as foreign correspondent in Poland for Czech Television. He also travelled to the countries of the former Soviet Union, especially Ukraine, the Baltic States and Belarus. From 2012-2020 he was a foreign correspondent for CT (Czech Television) in Moscow, worked as a journalist during the annexation of Crimea, and spent many months covering the fighting in the Donbas region. Since 2020, Miroslav Karas has been the director of the CT Ostrava television studio.
He has compiled his journalistic and human insights from Russia in the book A odkud bych asi tak byl? (Where Else Would I Be From?), which brings this vast country to life through the stories of people he has met there over the years.