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05/18/2021
Nick Cave and his band The Bad Seeds will headline the fifth edition of the Metronome Festival Prague next year, which this year takes place from June 23 to 26 at the Výstaviště fairgrounds.
The Australian musician has a large following in the Czech Republic, where he first played in 1992, at Prague’s Lucerna concert hall. A song on his 1994 album Let Love In called Thirsty Dog was inspired by a pub of that name in the Czech capital.
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05/18/2021
President Miloš Zeman today awarded his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vučić the highest Czech state award, the Order of the White Lion of the First Class, at a Prague Castle ceremony.
Zeman in turn received a high Serbian award for heads of state or government. Both awards go to people promoting the respective countries or relations between them.
Zeman apologized to Vučić for the 1999 bombing by NATO of rump Yugoslavia. At a press conference with Vučić on Tuesday in Prague, he asked the Serbian people for forgiveness for himself.
Vučić is also due to meet with the heads of both chambers of Parliament, Senator Miloš Vystrčil (Civic Democrats) and MP Radek Vondráček (ANO).
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05/18/2021
As of Monday evening, over 200,000 people aged 40 to 44 had registered to be vaccinated against Covid-19, according to the Smart Quarantine project team. The age group set a record for the number of registrations in one day.
In total, there are over 900,000 people in the age group, about 1 in 7 of whom have already been vaccinated because they were within a priority category.
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05/18/2021
The feature-length documentary film “Anny” by Czech director Helena Třeštíková was awarded the competition prize of the Munich film festival Dok.fest on Sunday evening.
Třeštíková’s time-lapse documentary depicts 16 years in the life of its eponymous protagonist, who starts working as a prostitute at the age of 46 to supplement her income as a public toilet attendant. “Anny” is set for release in Czech cinemas in June.
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05/18/2021
The government has named a new National Sports Agency head, to succeed Milan Hnilička, who resigned on Monday. It is Filip Neusser, the current coach of the women’s field hockey team.
Neusser’s appointment also means that he will withdraw his candidacy to head the Czech Olympic Committee.
The National Sports Agency was founded in August 2019 to distribute funding in the sector. Hnilička, its first chairman, had been under pressure to resign since January, when he took part in a celebration in violation of anti-coronavirus measures.
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05/18/2021
The government has rubberstamped a further easing of Covid measures as of May 24. Hotels will be allowed to reopen under strict hygiene conditions and it will be possible to organize cultural events for up to 1,000 people outdoors and 500 indoors. Hotel guests will be asked to produce certificates of vaccination, negative Covid tests or proof of post-Covid immunity. Covid tests will have to be repeated every seven days. As of May 24, secondary school students will go back to full in-class learning, without rotation. The government on Monday also approved a post-Covid national revival plan with projected investments to the tune of 200 billion crowns.
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05/18/2021
Officers from the National Center for Combatting Organized Crime are investigating the circumstances of Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamáček’s planned trip to Moscow, shortly before the disclosure linking the 2014 Vrbětice explosions to two Russian agents. The news site Seznam.cz later wrote that Mr.Hamáček had planned to negotiate a deal in Moscow under which he would hush-up the Russian link in return for a shipment of one million Covid vaccines and the possibility to host a Russian-US summit on Czech territory. The National Centre for Combatting Organized Crime is investigating the planned trip on suspicion of possible compromise of classified information and abuse of position. Mr. Hamáček has vehemently denied the allegations in Seznam saying the announced visit to Moscow was a smoke screen to enable the Czech government to recall the Czech ambassador to Russia back for consultations without raising suspicion.
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05/17/2021
Tuesday should be partly cloudy to overcast, with more rain showers, and day temperatures between 13 and 17 degrees Celsius.
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05/17/2021
The chairman of the National Sports Agency, Milan Hnilička, has resigned. Hnilička has been under pressure to vacate his post since January, when he took part in a celebration in Teplice, despite government measures against the coronavirus. The news site Seznam.cz also pointed out that a recent inspection by the Ministry of Finance found shortcomings in the agency’s management.
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05/17/2021
A bust of the late Czech-American film director Miloš Forman will be unveiled in the house where he was born in the town of Čáslav on Monday. The memorial ceremony to the Oscar-winning director of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus will be attended by local officials, filmmakers and fans. It was organized by the Čáslav city hall and will be streamed live. The ceremony was originally scheduled for April 13, three years after Forman's death, but had to be postponed due to Covid restrictions. The late film director's sons Matěj and Petr have promised to attend.
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