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05/22/2024
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, says European states need to take stronger action against Russian spies posing as diplomats. In an interview with news outlet iRozhlas.cz, Mr. Lipavský said there were a number of reasons to believe that Moscow’s diplomatic network was serving other interests than diplomacy, adding that reducing the number of Russian diplomats in the Schengen zone was one possibility open to the EU. Czechia does not welcome spies pretending to be diplomats, he said.
The minister reiterated his view that there is an asymmetrical relationship between Europe and Russia as a Russian diplomat who gets accreditation in any EU country automatically gets a Schengen visa for the whole bloc.
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05/21/2024
Czechia lost 4:3 to Canada in overtime in the country’s final game at the World Ice Hockey Championship in Prague on Tuesday.
The result left the Czechs second in their group behind Canada. They will now face the USA in the quarter-finals on Thursday.
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05/21/2024
Architect Otakar Binar, who designed the interiors of one of Czechia’s most distinctive modern buildings, Hotel Ještěd, has died at the age of 92. Alongside Karel Hubáček, he was a founding member of the world renowned SIAL architecture studio in Liberec in the 1960s.
Binar said Hubáček, who designed the exteriors of Hotel Ještěd, had been his lifelong and only boss.
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05/21/2024
One in 10 young adults in Czechia display signs of severe depression, while 16 percent have moderate symptoms, according to research presented on Tuesday by the Psychiatric Clinic of the 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University and Prague’s General University Hospital.
Representatives of the institutions said that politicians should devote more attention to the issue. They said both prevention and specialised services in this area were currently lacking in Czechia.
The head of the research team said steps should be taken by the ministries of education and health, as well as health insurance companies.
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05/21/2024
A place of remembrance will be opened on Friday in part of the fourth floor of Charles University’s main Faculty of Arts building in Prague, scene of some of the worst violence and damage during a mass shooting in December.
The floor has been closed since the attack by a lone gunman that left 14 dead. It is set to reopen completely at the turn of October, when the next academic year begins, university officials said.
December’s incident was the worst mass shooting in the modern history of Czechia.
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05/21/2024
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, says that up to EUR 3 billion from Russia’s central bank frozen by the EU can go to Ukraine this year alone. Some 90 percent of the money will go to Ukraine’s military in its efforts to defend the country against the Russians, he said, adding that the Kremlin had to pay for its war damages.
EU states on Tuesday confirmed an agreement under which proceeds from Russian assets frozen in Europe will be used to buy weapons for Ukraine and to reconstruct the country.
The European Commission submitted this plan in March.
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05/21/2024
Czech police have recommended that 14 people be charged with organising illegal migration from Turkey to Czechia and elsewhere in Europe. The accused are in custody on suspicion of smuggling at least 2,000 people across state borders, a crime that is punishable by up to 16 years in prison.
A spokesperson for the police’s organised crime unit said on Tuesday that progress had been made in the case, which involves 13 foreigners and one Czech.
Since they were first charged last June the police have revised upward the number of suspected cases of illegal migration connected to the 14.
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05/21/2024
The world premiere of the musical composition Pianofonia by Michal Rataj and Jan Trojan took place in the unusual venue of the National Technical Museum in Prague on Monday evening. The piece is performed using part of pianos and two complete instruments and was created in cooperation with the Czech piano maker Petrof.
The event was part of the 79th Prague Spring International Music Festival, which runs until June 3.
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05/21/2024
It should be mainly overcast with some rain in Czechia on Wednesday, with an average high temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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05/21/2024
The Ice Hockey World Championship, currently underway in Prague and Ostrava, is on track to break its own spectator record set in 2015, when over 741,000 spectators attended the games. During the first nine days of this year's tournament, the organizers reported over half a million visitors. If this trend continues, the championship could attract over 800,000 spectators. The capacity of both arenas has increased since the last tournament. Prague’s O2 arena can now accommodate 17, 400 spectators, the Ostrava arena just over 9,000. The first six of the eight games played in Ostrava were completely sold out.
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