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05/05/2024
Politicians, veterans and members of the public gathered outside Czech Radio’s Prague headquarters on Sunday to mark the 79th anniversary of the Prague Uprising against Nazi rule, which began on 5 May 1945, near the end of WWII, and to pay their respects to those who died in the fighting. The radio building was the focal point of the uprising and the site of one of the biggest battles with Nazi forces. Over 100 people died in its immediate vicinity and hundreds of others were killed in the fighting around Prague.
The heads of both houses of parliament, Miloš Vystrčil and Markéta Pekarová Adamová, Prague mayor Bohuslav Svoboda, and the Slovak ambassador to Czechia, Ingrid Brocková, were among the speakers at Sunday's ceremony, which was also attended by the head of Czech Radio René Zavoral. The speakers commended the bravery of the Prague denizens who came to defend the radio building during the uprising and overthrow the Nazi occupiers, and emphasised the importance of continuing to fight for freedom nowadays.
The speaker of the lower house, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, said that by taking the initiative to purchase ammunition for Ukraine, Czechs were once again demonstrating to the entire free world that they can lead and inspire others by positive example, just as they had during the Prague Uprising 79 years ago.
Transport Minister Martin Kupka said in his speech that May 5 was a reminder of the importance of standing up to evil, and that the greatest threat to freedom and democracy was relativisation and a lack of clarity about what is right and what is wrong.
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05/04/2024
White storks in Czechia are changing their migratory behaviour due to the unusually warm spring, Czech Television reports. Zdeněk Vermouzek, director of the Czech Ornithological Society, told the public broadcaster that the birds are returning to Czechia and nesting earlier than usual this year. Ornithologists already know of fifteen storks' nests with chicks, which is out of the ordinary for early May.
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05/04/2024
Avraham Harshalom, an Israeli-Czech Holocaust survivor and former president of the Israeli Society of Friends of the Czech Republic, has died at the age of 99, the Czech embassy in Israel announced on social media site X. Although born in present-day Belarus, he ended up in Prague in March 1945 after escaping from a transport from Buchenwald and was hidden by a Czech family for the remaining two months of the war. He participated in the Prague Uprising in May 1945, obtained Czechoslovak nationality, and studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague after the war. He moved to Israel in 1949 and lived there until his death. He received the Gratias Agit Award in 2016 from the Czech Foreign Ministry for his active involvement in the restoration of relations between the two countries.
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05/04/2024
Sunday is predicted to be warm but mostly cloudy, with a chance of rain in the afternoon and evening. Daytime temperatures should range between 15 and 21 degrees Celsius.
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05/04/2024
A group of people carrying EU, NATO and Ukrainian flags and a large banner bearing the inscription "Welcome the delegates of the Russian Terrorist Federation" protested the arrival of bikers from Night Wolves MC Europe, a chapter of the Russian Night Wolves Motorcycle Club, in Brno on Saturday, the Czech News Agency reports.
The pro-Kremlin "biker gang", which has chapters in several European countries and elsewhere around the world, stopped at Brno's Central Cemetery on their annual ride through Europe around VE Day to lay wreaths at memorials to Red Army soldiers who died in World War II. The protest was organised by the Kaputin group, who regularly hold protests and demonstrations against groups and individuals deemed to be pro-Russian.
The Night Wolves Motorcycle Club has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and is often described as extremely nationalistic. The head of the organisation, Alexander Zaldostanov, is on the US and EU sanctions list for supporting the Russian annexation of Crimea. The group began their 10th annual "Victory Ride" in Michalovce, Slovakia, this year.
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05/04/2024
ANO party leader Andrej Babiš has said in response to a letter from Defence Minister Jana Černochová that his party has never criticised giving aid to Ukraine, but rather criticises the lack of transparency surrounding the current Czech shells-for-Ukraine initiative, which he perceives primarily as a giant PR campaign.
Ms. Černochová wrote in her letter dated Tuesday that the former prime minister's attacks on the ammunition initiative were publicly damaging the image of the country and that national defence and security issues should remain separate from political campaigning, accusing him of trying to create the impression that the initiative is fraudulent in order to win the votes of extremists.
The ANO party leader wrote in response in a letter dated Friday that his party had never questioned the giving of aid to Ukraine or disputed the idea that Russia is the clear aggressor in the conflict, but that if the main goal of the shells initiative was really to help Ukraine, then it would not have been publicly discussed until after the delivery of the aid.
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05/04/2024
Some 43 vintage cars in mint condition set off from Prague on Saturday morning to make their way across Europe for the second annual edition of the Oldtimer Express rally. The drivers are supposed to make five stops and finish in Athens, where the winners in different categories will be announced, including the first to reach the finish line and Most Beautiful Car. However, organiser Josef Zajíček, who is also participating, told the Czech News Agency that the event is not a race and the goal is to finish safely and enjoy the journey.
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05/04/2024
The American student marching band Stuttgart Legacy Drumline opened the Plzeň Freedom Celebrations' cultural programme on Friday evening, marking the liberation of the city by US and Belgian troops at the end of World War II. Following the performance, 25 descendants of the veterans who liberated the city in May 1945 came onto the podium in the city's central square and addressed the crowds. Kristina Pieper, the daughter of American veteran Richard Pieper, who died last March at the age of 99, said that her father always spoke of Plzeň as his second home.
The second day of the programme began on Saturday with a mass for veterans and victims of wars in the Cathedral of St. Bartholomew, delivered by Bishop Tomáš Holub in Czech and English.
The Freedom Celebrations will continue over the weekend with a historical, military and cultural program including outdoor gatherings, concerts, guided tours and exhibitions, and will culminate on May 6 with commemorative ceremonies at monuments to the soldiers.
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05/03/2024
Czech analyses clearly show that the Russian-controlled APT28 group is the source of cyberattacks against Czech state institutions, according to the director of the National Cyber and Information Security Agency, Lukáš Kintr.
There is also no doubt about the involvement of the Russian military secret service GRU in its activities, Kintr told the Czech News Agency. It is also necessary, he said, to send a clear signal not only to Russia but also to other potential attackers that cyber attacks against Czechia are unacceptable.
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05/03/2024
Czechia, along with Poland, had the lowest rate of unemployment in the European Union in March, according to the latest data by the European statistics agency Eurostat published on Friday.
The general level of unemployment in the EU lay at 6 percent in March, a decrease by 0.1 percent when compared to February. In Czechia unemployment rose to 2.9 percent from 2.7 percent in February.
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