Jaromír Štětina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jaromír Štětina

Czech senator of Czech Parliament, publicist and writer

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1943

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Profession: writer, politician, economist, journalist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Social Profiles:

Show Famous Birthdays Today, Czech Republic

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Jaromír Štětina

  • Jaromír Štetina (born 6 April 1943 in Prague) is a Czech journalist, writer and politician.
  • He is known to most as a war correspondent from the conflict areas of the former Soviet Union.
  • Since 2014, Štetina has served as a member of the European Parliament for the Czech Republic. During 1961-1967, Štetina studied at the University of Economics, Prague.
  • Since 1965 until 1968 he was a member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. In 1968, Štetina started working as a journalist for the newspaper Mladá Fronta, his work there coincided with the soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, during which the Soviet army seized control of Mladá Fronta.
  • Štetina was subsequently fired due to his disagreement over the Warsaw Pact armies entering Czechoslovakia. After being fired from Mladá Fronta, Štetina worked as a geodesist, and while working, studied geology long-distance at Charles University in Prague, during which he organised 25 geologic or sport tours to Siberia and Asia.
  • During the same years, Štetina wrote his most famous book, "S matyldou po Indu", on the topic of rafting. In 1987 Štetina started engaging in public speakings.
  • In 1989, he co-founded a syndicate of journalists, ultimately resuming his work as a journalist, at the re-established newspaper Lidové noviny.
  • In 1990 Štetina started working as a foreign correspondent in Moscow, where he covered numerous conflicts in the former Soviet Union.
  • In 1992, he founded the foundation Lidových novin.
  • During 1993-94 he was editor-in-chief of Lidové noviny.
  • In 1994, he founded the journalism agency Epicentrum, dedicated to war reporting, with fellow journalist Petra Procházková. Štetina has specialised in military conflicts in Europe, Asia and Africa of which he has covered more than 20.
  • Furthermore, Stetina is a prolific author, having published 10 books, as well as dozens of documentaries, and countless articles. In the 2004 elections to the Senate (upper chamber of the Czech parliament) Štetina ran for office as an independent candidate under the umbrella of the Green Party (Strana Zelených), Štetina won the election, and assumed office as senator for the Prague 10 district. Štetina is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also