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11/19/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Monday, with an average high temperature of 10 degrees Celsius. Temperatures are expected to fall to as low as 0 degrees Celsius by the middle of the week.
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11/19/2023
Czech diplomats succeeded in evacuating two relatives of Czech citizens from Gaza on Saturday, the Czech News Agency reported, citing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The two are in the care of the Czech consular team at the country’s embassy in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
On Thursday a Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said it had information that seven Czech citizens and their three family members were seeking to be evacuated from Gaza.
Israel has been bombarding Gaza since a Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.
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11/18/2023
On Friday the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the deputy Czech ambassador in Moscow, Jiří Čistecký, to convey the country’s disagreement with the placing of a company administering Russian property in Czechia on the latter’s sanctions list, meaning its assets are frozen. The news was reported by Russia’s TASS agency.
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that it’s chargé d’affaires had been invited to Russia’s Foreign Ministry but revealed no further details.
The Czech ambassador to Russia is officially Vítězslav Pivoňka, though he has been based in Czechia for several months.
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11/18/2023
It should be mainly overcast, with some rain, in Czechia on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 9 degrees Celsius. More cloudy skies are expected on the following days.
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11/18/2023
A memorial service for two-time Czech foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg will be held at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna on 16 December, the APA news agency reported on Saturday. Schwarzenberg died last weekend at the age of 85.
The funeral mass will be conducted by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, who is archbishop of Vienna. Senior politicians and diplomats are also expected to attend the commemoration.
Mr. Schwarzenberg’s official funeral will take place with state honours on at St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle on December 9.
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11/18/2023
Celebrations on Národní in Prague on Friday attracted around 90,000 people, the organisers of the Národní Promenade event told the Czech News Agency. People have been gathering at the city centre street on 17 November every year since events there sparked the Velvet Revolution in 1989; some lay candles at a plaque marking the date.
At least 76,000 people also attended a free show entitled Concert for the Future on the nearby Wenceslas Square, according to preliminary data from mobile operators.
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11/18/2023
Former Czech president Václav Klaus says that the symbols of November 17, 1989, which sparked the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, have been stolen and occupied by people who “trample on” the ideas of that time. He made the comment on CNN Prima News on Friday evening. Mr. Klaus said he had not visited a memorial to the Velvet Revolution so as to avoid clashing with current politicians.
Speaking on the same programme, ex-president Miloš Zeman said he disagreed with opposition leader Andrej Babiš of ANO, who says Czechia is experiencing a “new totalitarianism”. Today is far from totalitarianism, he said.
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11/18/2023
The multi-genre festival Prague Sounds comes to an end on Saturday evening with a special piano concert at the city’s Rudolfinum by Czechia's Bert & Friends.
Other artists who have appeared in the festival, at a variety of venues in Prague, include Benjamin Clementine, Alva Noto, Owen Pallett, Nathan Fake, Kofi Stone, Angélique Kidjo and Ron Carter.
The event, which was originally named Strings of Autumn, was held this year for the 27th time.
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11/18/2023
Five people who resisted the Nazis, the Communists or Russian occupiers were honoured at the annual Memory of Nations Awards at Prague’s National Theatre on Friday night.
The prizes went to Czech dissident Jan Litomiský, two Slovak women persecuted by the communist regime, Mária Šidová and Eva Karvašová, a Czech woman imprisoned by the Gestapo, Marie Klangová, and – in a first recognition of current events – Ukrainian Orthodox priest Vasyl Vyrozub.
The award is presented annually by Post Bellum association, which records testimonies of witnesses to major events of the 20th century.
President Petr Pavel attended Friday’s ceremony, the first head of state to do so since the prizes were first presented in 2010.
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11/18/2023
The Czech national soccer team drew 1:1 away with Poland on Friday evening in a qualifying game for next year’s European Championships. The hosts opened the scoring through Jakub Piotrowski before half time, before Czech captain Tomáš Souček equalised soon after the break.
The result leaves the Czechs needing one point from their final Euro 2024 qualifier against Moldova, which takes place in Olomouc on Monday.
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