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09/20/2025
More than 5,500 cleanup events are taking place across Czechia today as part of World Cleanup Day. The campaign is led locally by Ukliďme Česko and brings together schools, companies, municipalities, clubs and individual volunteers.
Czechia consistently ranks among the most active countries in the campaign relative to its population. Ukliďme Česko also organizes a spring cleanup, which this year included over 4,000 events.
World Cleanup Day began in Estonia in 2008 and was added this year to the official UN calendar. Since then, over 91 million people in 221 countries have taken part, removing hundreds of thousands of tons of waste.
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09/20/2025
Marta Kubišová, whose song Prayer for Marta became a symbol of protest against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, will sing in public for the last time this Saturday at a concert in Prague’s Lucerna. The event marks the 55th anniversary of the ban on her performing.
She does not plan to record any new albums. Kubišová’s last studio album, Soul, was released eight years ago, and on November 1, 2017, she officially ended her singing career. Since then, she has appeared only rarely – in 2019 at a concert marking 30 years since November 1989, and in 2022 during celebrations of her 80th birthday.
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09/20/2025
Around 100,000 people visited the opening day of NATO Days in Ostrava and Czech Air Force Days on Saturday, according to police. The large turnout caused traffic jams around Mošnov airfield, but organizers reported no major problems.
The event continues on Sunday, offering about eight hours of program each day. Highlights include performances by three aerobatic teams and a flyover by the U.S. B-52H Stratofortress bomber.
NATO Days are Europe’s largest security show, bringing together military, security and rescue units from 16 countries. This year’s special partner nation is Italy, presenting the AV-8B+ Harrier in a dynamic flight, the two-seat TAV-8B Harrier on static display, and ground equipment including the C1 Ariete tank and B1 Centauro tank destroyer.
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09/19/2025
Saturday will be sunny to partly cloudy, with occasional fog in the morning. Daytime highs will range from 25 to 29 °C, dropping to around 22 °C at 1000 m in the mountains.
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09/19/2025
Czech cyclist Pavel Novák will ride for the elite WorldTour team Movistar from next season. The Spanish squad announced the signing on its website, confirming a three-year contract for the 20-year-old Czech.
Novák moves from the team MBH Bank Ballan CSB. In its colours he achieved his biggest result so far — third place overall at this year’s Giro d’Italia Next Gen, the most prestigious stage race for riders under 23.
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09/19/2025
Four baby capybaras have been born at Prague Zoo. Visitors can see them in the Water World and Monkey Islands section, where they arrived on September 18 to a female named Bára.
Capybaras are the world’s largest rodents and are known for their calm, friendly nature. Because they are in high demand among zoos, the young ones will eventually move to other institutions.
Prague Zoo last kept capybaras in 2013, but floods destroyed their enclosure and ended the breeding program. After a ten-year pause, the zoo reintroduced them in November 2023.
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09/19/2025
A Czech court has approved the conditional release of the country’s longest-serving inmate — a brutal murderer who narrowly escaped the death penalty when it was abolished after the fall of communism. Zdeněk Vocásek, later renamed Navrátil, was the first person in Czechia to receive a life sentence.
On Friday, the District Court in Most set a seven-year probation period for Vocásek, requiring him to spend time in a probation house in South Bohemia before moving to his permanent residence. He has already served 38 years and five months behind bars.
The state prosecutor has appealed the decision, so Vocásek remains in prison while the Regional Court in Ústí nad Labem reviews the case. If the appeal is rejected, the 64-year-old could be released within weeks.
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09/19/2025
In student elections for Czech high schoolers over 15, the Spolu coalition came out on top with 20.6 percent of the vote, narrowly ahead of the Pirates and STAN (Mayors and Independents). Further behind were the Motorists and ANO.
No other party crossed the five-percent threshold needed for seats in parliament. Parties from the original government coalition were especially strong at grammar schools.
The elections were organized by People in Need through its One World in Schools program. A total of 637 schools took part, with 90,820 students casting their votes.
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09/19/2025
Experts opened a long-sealed letter by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first Czechoslovak president, at the Lány Chateau on Friday. The five-page note, almost entirely written in English, contains Masaryk’s reflection that “if people are uneducated and foolish, there is little that can be done.”
The letter, reportedly dictated to his son Jan, also acknowledges Masaryk’s awareness of his approaching death and gives instructions for organizing his funeral.
Although it was previously thought to have been written shortly before Masaryk’s death in 1937, experts say it was likely drafted in the summer of 1934. The letter was handed to the National Archive on September 19, 2005, by Jan Masaryk’s secretary, Antonín Sum, with instructions to keep it sealed for another 20 years.
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09/19/2025
Minsk has declared a Czech diplomat persona non grata and ordered them to leave within 72 hours. The move comes in retaliation for Prague’s recent expulsion of a Belarusian diplomat, whom Czech authorities accused of working for the secret service.
Belarus rejected those allegations as unfounded and politically motivated. Foreign ministry spokesman Ruslan Varankov said the expulsion was a direct response and insisted Minsk now considers the matter closed.
Earlier this month, the Czech intelligence service announced it had dismantled a Belarusian spy network allegedly run by the KGB. On the same day, Prague ordered one Belarusian diplomat to leave the country within three days.
Belarus has also summoned Poland’s envoy, suggesting further fallout could follow.
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