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11/17/2025
Thousands of people arrived on Monday afternoon at a demonstration organized by the Milion Chvilek association against the formation of an ANO‑SPD‑Motorists government at Prague’s Old Town Square, where the area quickly filled shortly after the protest began. Many demonstrators were holding flags of Czechia, the European Union, Ukraine, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The organizers of the event, titled Czechia Is Not for Sale, are protesting against the emerging government, which they say is built on a mafia-like principle. Even before the demonstration began, they screened a video about Milion Chvilek. During a clip of a 2021 pre-election spot by the likely future Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO), loud boos were heard.
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11/17/2025
On Monday, singer Marta Kubišová launched an album at the Melantrich building in Prague, featuring a recording of her last public performance this September at Prague’s Lucerna. She released her last studio album, titled Soul, eight years ago and officially ended her singing career on 1 November 2017. Since then, she has performed only occasionally. Kubišová symbolically launched her concert recording in the very place where, during the November Revolution of 1989, her performance of the song Modlitba pro Martu (later the unofficial anthem of the Velvet Revolution) was heard from the balcony of the Melantrich Palace on Wenceslas Square. Actress Eva Holubová became the album’s godmother. The vinyl album, in a limited symbolic edition of 1,989 copies, will go on sale in December.
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11/17/2025
On Monday, Czechia commemorates the revolutionary events of 1989 that led to the fall of the Communist regime, as well as the persecution of students during the Nazi occupation 50 years earlier. The traditional center of the events was Prague’s Národní Street, which, despite cold and rainy weather, was filled with thousands of people during the morning. The arrivals of politicians across the political spectrum, as in previous years, sparked strong emotions among both their opponents and supporters.
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11/17/2025
At the Černín Palace on Monday, outgoing Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský (independent, elected for Spolu) awarded the Medal of Merit for Diplomacy to the outgoing government envoy for Ukraine’s reconstruction Tomáš Kopečný, former Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová Adamová (TOP 09), and departing national security adviser Tomáš Pojar. He did so on the occasion of the 17 November national holiday. In total, he honored six individuals.
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11/17/2025
Members of the Motorists movement, led by their chairman Petr Macinka, arrived shortly before noon today at the 17 November memorial on Národní Street to a turbulent atmosphere. Boos and shouts of “Shame,” as well as expressions of support, were directed mainly at the Motorists’ honorary president Filip Turek, who could become foreign minister in the emerging ANO–SPD–Motorists government.
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11/17/2025
The war in Ukraine still represents an immediate threat to Czechia, and people should be prepared for the possibility that the conflict could, in various forms, reach Czechia as well. President Petr Pavel said this today in an interview for Czech Television on Prague’s Národní Street, where he joined other politicians and citizens in commemorating the events of November 1989 that triggered the fall of Communism in the country. By supporting Ukraine, which has been defending itself against Russian aggression for more than three years, Czechia is protecting its own security and the system in which it lives and wishes to continue living, he stated.
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11/17/2025
STAN chairman Vít Rakušan criticized the absence of Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Tomio Okamura on Monday on Prague’s Národní Street, which is the traditional center of commemorations of the events of November 1989. The outgoing deputy prime minister and interior minister arrived on Národní in the morning with other representatives of the movement and spoke with some of the people who had gathered at the memorial to 17 November 1989. In this discussion, and later before reporters, he called Okamura’s absence a disgrace.
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11/17/2025
On Monday’s memorial gathering at the Hlávka Dormitory in Prague, speakers emphasized the importance of education. They pointed out that educated people do not succumb to disinformation and are capable of critical thinking and engaging in dialogue. The event was also attended by the chairman of the SPD movement and the Chamber of Deputies, Tomio Okamura, who told reporters that, in his view, freedom is being restricted in the Czech Republic. Okamura had previously announced that he would not go to the memorial on Národní Street, but besides the one at the Hlávka Dormitory, he would also visit the memorial at the Ruzyně Barracks.
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11/17/2025
“If the chairman of the ANO movement, Andrej Babiš, is not able to satisfactorily resolve his conflict of interest, then by appointing him I would be contributing to the creation of an illegal situation,” President Petr Pavel told Czech Radio on Monday on Národní třída. In such a case, he said, it would be advisable for the movement, as the election winner, to propose another candidate for the position of prime minister. If the ANO leader still owned the Agrofert holding at the time of his appointment as prime minister, he would be in a conflict of interest. He would have 30 days to resolve it.
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11/17/2025
To commemorate the events of November 17, 1989, President Pavel also arrived today on Prague’s Národní třída just before 9:30. People applauded as he arrived, chanting “Thank you” and “Long live Pavel,” though there were also voices of dissent. Someone in the crowd urged Pavel in Russian to say what he did in 1989, addressing him as “comrade.” There were also calls of “About-face and leave” and occasional shouts of “Shame.”
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