Petra Procházková [SEP] place of birth
Petra Procházková
Petra Procházková (; born October 20, 1964 in Český Brod) is a Czech journalist and humanitarian worker. She is best known as a war correspondent from conflict areas of the former Soviet Union.
Procházková studied journalistics at Charles University in Prague (graduated in 1986). In 1989 she started to work in the re-established newspaper Lidové noviny. In 1992 she became Lidové noviny's Moscow correspondent. Here she began covering conflict areas—Abkhazia being the first. During Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 she was
2001, . Collection of short stories about people pushed outside the society due to wartime cruelty.
- Jaromír Štětina, Petra Procházková: "Rošangol", 2003, . Two stories about women-mothers from the contemporary Afghanistan.
- Petra Procházková: "Aluminiová královna: rusko-čečenská válka očima žen" ("The Aluminium Queen: The Russian-Chechen War Through the Eyes of Women"), 2003, . Document about women struggling for survival in Chechnya during the wars. It was translated into French,