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07/30/2023
The owner of major Czech internet company Seznam, Ivo Lukačovič, has offered a cash reward for the uncovering of a would-be blackmailer. Mr. Lukačovič said on Twitter that he would give whoever assisted in the capture of a person demanding the equivalent of CZK 8 million in bitcoin not to attack Seznam CZK 1 million for every year of any prison term received by the blackmailer.
The company’s founder said on Saturday that whoever made the threat said the money would have to be paid within three days or Seznam would suffer damage.
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07/30/2023
Veteran sprinter Jan Veleba won the 100 metres at the Czech national athletics championships in Tábor on Saturday evening. Veleba, who is 36, finished in a time of 10.54 seconds for his sixth national title. His first win in three years came 13 years after the first of his career. The women’s title was won by Nikola Bendova.
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07/30/2023
The Czech authorities have taken action against a Russian oligarch with property in Czechia. The Financial Analysis Office has blocked the bank accounts and frozen the assets of Vladimir Yevtushenko under the country’s sanctions regime, Czech Television reported on Saturday evening.
Mr. Yevtushenko has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and is the most high profile Russian businessperson targeted by Czechia to date, Czech Television said. He has properties in the town of Karlovy Vary worth over CZK 500 million, it reported, adding that he had been placed on Czechia’s sanctions list last month.
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07/30/2023
Weather forecast
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Monday, with an average high temperature of 22 degrees Celsius.
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07/29/2023
Czech gas storage facilities are now 90 percent full and contain over 3.1 billion cubic metres of gas, the minister of industry and trade, Jozef Síkela, said on Twitter. Mr. Síkela said domestic gas reserves were at a record level, even without gas imports from Russia. He said this meant Czechia had met a European Union obligation to strengthen energy security in advance of next winter.
Last week the minister said Czechia had not imported any gas from Russia in the first half of 2023, with all imports coming via Germany.
The country began seeking alternative suppliers after Russia launched a war on Ukraine last year.
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07/29/2023
The well-known Czech actress Jana Šulcová died on Friday at the age of 76. She was popular in the 1970s and 1980s, especially in the TV series Once Upon a House and We Are All Schoolchildren, though she also played one of the leads in the comedy I Enjoy the World with You, which was voted the Czech film of the century in 1998.
Šulcová also appeared in the films The Cremator and Hubert the Handsome and acted in dozens of stage productions.
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07/29/2023
One of the main issues for the European Union in the coming years will be Ukraine and its accession to the bloc, says the Czech minister for European affairs, Martin Dvořák. Speaking in an interview with the Czech News Agency on Saturday, Mr. Dvořák also said that the Western Balkans must not be forgotten; he said as an honorary citizen of Kosovo it was an important issue to him personally.
The minister said institutional changes would probably need to be made in connection with further EU enlargement.
Mr. Dvořák said some Balkan states feared that their European ambitions were being sidelined when Ukraine moved significantly closer to EU membership following the Russian invasion. However, even older EU members realise that the Balkans cannot be lost, he said.
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07/29/2023
In the first half of this year, 133 new cases of HIV infection were recorded in Czechia, 19 fewer than in the same period last year, the Czech News Agency reported on Saturday.
According to the National Reference Laboratory for HIV/AIDS at the State Institute of Health, the situation continues to be significantly affected by the war conflict in Ukraine. The number of cases of foreigners with long-term residence in Czechia with HIV increased by 75, with the remaining 58 cases involving Czech citizens.
The proportion of foreigners, 56.4 per cent, is the second highest ever recorded in a six-month period.
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07/29/2023
Working in conjunction with Italian Carabinieri, Czech military police officers have begun serving on an international mission in Kosovo, the Czech News Agency wrote on Saturday. The Czech officers’ task is to help stabilise the situation in a territory where ethnic unrest between Kosovo and Serbia still persists.
They are part of the international specialised unit MSU KFOR (Multinational Specialised Unit Kosovo Forces). During their time in Kosovo, the Czechs will primarily be involved in patrolling the operational area and monitoring the situation in the territory. In the event of protests, they will be called on to employ their crowd control skills, the Czech Army said on its website.
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07/29/2023
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 24 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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