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02/23/2026
Rain and melting snow pushed river levels in the Czech Republic to the lowest flood alert stage at seven locations on Monday morning, mainly in the northern areas below the mountains. According to the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute about 40 millimeters of rain fell in the Krkonoše Mountains at the weekend. Heavy rainfall was also recorded in the Jizera Mountains and in the Šumava.
Flood stages indicate the level of danger and determine the scope of emergency measures. The first stage signals alert, the second readiness, and the third indicates a direct threat.
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02/23/2026
Culture Minister Oto Klempíř was involved in a car accident shortly after 8 a.m. on Monday at Vítězné náměstí in Prague, Novinky.cz reported. The minister’s car, which had a roof beacon, reportedly collided with another passenger car. It is not yet clear whether the beacon was activated at the time of the accident. The incident is being investigated. The minister is said to have arrived at his office late and was not feeling well, according to his party colleague, minister for sports, Boris Šťastný. He was later taken to hospital for a check-up.
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02/23/2026
Firefighters and veterinarians have begun culling laying hens at a large commercial poultry farm in Kosičky, in the Hradec Králové region, where the latest outbreak of bird flu was confirmed late last week. It will be the second-largest cull in the Czech Republic linked to the virus with about 100 professional firefighters working on the site every day. The operation is expected to last for five to seven days. The Kosičky poultry farm houses around 230,000 laying hens.
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02/23/2026
President Petr Pavel on Monday appointed Motorists nominee Igor Červený as minister of the environment at Prague Castle. The appointment completes Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s cabinet roughly two months after it was formed.
The environment ministry had been temporarily overseen by Foreign Minister and Motorists leader Petr Macinka.
Pavel had earlier refused to appoint the Motorists’ original nominee, Filip Turek, citing some of his positions and statements. The party initially said it would not propose another candidate, but last Monday it put forward MP Červený instead.
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02/23/2026
The Czech-Danish documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin has won the BAFTA award for best documentary. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced the result on its website. The film is also nominated for this year’s Academy Awards in the Best Documentary Feature category.
Mr. Nobody Against Putin was directed by Russian filmmaker Pavel Talankin together with American documentary director David Borenstein, who is based in Copenhagen. The film was produced by the Danish production company Made in Copenhagen in cooperation with the Czech company PINK.
The documentary contains footage secretly filmed by Talankin, a teacher in Russia, who wanted to expose war propaganda in schools following the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Much of the film takes place at a school in a town east of the Ural Mountains.
Talankin had to flee Russia before the documentary’s release.
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02/22/2026
Czechia finished 16th in the medal table at the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, winning two golds, two silvers and one bronze.
Snowboarder Zuzana Maděrová won gold in the parallel giant slalom and speed skater Metoděj Jílek triumphed in the 10,000 metres. Jílek also took silver in the 5,000 metres, while snowboardcross rider Eva Adamczyková won another silver. Biathlete Tereza Voborníková added a bronze in the mass start on the penultimate day of the Games.
In terms of medal value, this year’s Czech team recorded its third-best result in Winter Olympics history. Only the 2014 Sochi Games and the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics brought a stronger medal tally. Norway once again topped the medal table.
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02/22/2026
The Jewish Museum in Prague has returned a set of 39 synagogue textiles to Greece that were looted by the Nazis during the Second World War and brought to what is now Czech territory.
After the war the textiles were found in various locations across the country and later gathered in the Jewish Museum in Prague. They were formally handed over in Prague earlier this week to the director of the Jewish Museum of Greece, Zanet Battinou.
Many of the textiles date from the period after the great fire in Thessaloniki in 1917, which destroyed many synagogues, schools, rabbinical libraries and archives. The new textiles replaced ritual items lost in the blaze and commemorated those who died.
Some of the items still bear black markings added by the Nazis. The textiles were first taken to Berlin and later transferred in 1944 to the territory of the then Sudetenland under unclear circumstances.
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02/22/2026
Czechia will not join Hungary in threatening to block the EU’s planned 20th sanctions package against Russia, Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlíček said on Czech Television’s debate programme on Sunday.
Hungary has said it may block the new sanctions if Ukraine does not resume the transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline. Supplies to Slovakia and Hungary via Ukraine were interrupted at the end of January.
Havlíček called for further negotiations on the issue and suggested the involvement of an independent arbitrator. He also said Czechia had offered Slovakia oil supplies through its pipeline network, though securing them could take about a year.
Ukraine says the disruption was caused by Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure. However, Slovakia and Hungary have accused Kyiv of political pressure linked to Hungary’s opposition to Ukraine joining the EU.
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02/22/2026
Monday will be cloudy to overcast with occasional rain or showers in most areas. Daytime highs will range from 8 to 13 degrees Celsius, with around 4 degrees at 1,000 metres in the mountains.
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02/22/2026
Meteorologists have expanded an earlier warning about rising river levels in parts of Czechia. The increase is expected mainly in eastern Bohemia from Sunday evening, the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute informed.
Rivers in some areas could reach the lowest flood alert level. However, water is not expected to overflow riverbanks, though faster runoff and waterlogged soil could weaken the stability of trees.
The warning applies to parts of the Vysočina and South Bohemian regions as well as areas in the Central Bohemian, Pardubice, Hradec Králové and Liberec regions.
A separate warning for freezing rain remains in effect until Sunday afternoon, mainly in the Olomouc region.
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