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05/18/2023
Moscow will take retaliatory steps in response if Czechia requests three years' rent retroactively for Czech property used free of charge by Russia, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday, citing Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign minister.
The Czech government canceled nine resolutions on Wednesday from the 1970s and 1980s which granted the former Soviet Union the use of certain Czech real estate free of charge. The property was supposed to be used for diplomatic purposes, but Czechia says that Russia uses the land for non-diplomatic purposes, so there is no reason to continue providing it for free. The cancellation of the normalisation-era edicts also allows for the possibility of Czechia demanding taxes and rent from Russia for up to the last three years.
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05/18/2023
Czechia’s counterintelligence service BIS has asked President Petr Pavel to allow the former head of the presidential office, Vratislav Mynář, to be released from his obligation of confidentiality for the time he was in his post, news site Deník N reported on Thursday morning. If the president signs off on this request, Mr Mynář will likely be questioned about the leaking of confidential information from BIS to the presidential office.
Former president Miloš Zeman was already questioned in connection with this case at the end of January. Shortly before the end of his tenure as president, Mr Zeman received the same request from the counterintelligence service asking for Mr Mynář to be released from his obligation of confidentiality, but he refused to sign it.
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05/17/2023
The government has approved the cancellation of several resolutions from 1970-1982 that allowed Russians to use real estate in the Czech Republic free of charge, news site Deník N reported on Wednesday afternoon. This move opens up the possibility of demanding taxes and rent from Russia, even three years retroactively.
The government returned to the issue at their cabinet meeting on Wednesday, after the proposal had been tabled since it was last on their agenda two months ago.
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05/17/2023
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and his Saxon counterpart Michael Kretschmer signed a memorandum of cooperation in Dresden on Wednesday that should make it possible to speed up approval processes for lithium mining in the Ore Mountains on both sides of the border.
Cínovec boasts Europe's largest deposit of lithium, which the European Union has classified as a critical material. The lithium deposit in Cínovec should enable the production of batteries for half a million electric cars.
Mining is scheduled to begin in 2026.
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05/17/2023
Thursday will continue to be overcast but should see marginally warmer temperatures of up to 14 degrees Celsius. No rain is expected.
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05/17/2023
Activists from the group Kaputin protested outside an apartment building belonging to the family of a Russian arms manufacturer in Prague's Žižkov district on Wednesday. They were calling for the building to be expropriated and sold, with the profits going to aid Ukraine, and for the Czech government to apply sanctions more consistently against Russian oligarchs connected to Vladimir Putin.
The apartment building is owned by Rostislav Zorikov, the son-in-law of Russian arms manufacturer Boris Obnosov, who is the CEO of Russia's most important missile and bomb manufacturer, Tactical Missiles Corporation. In addition to the building in Žižkov, the family also owns properties in the Prague districts of Hlubočepy and Barrandov worth several hundred million crowns.
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05/17/2023
An endangered female white-tailed eagle and her young have been found dead in the village of Toužim in the Karlovy Vary Region. Police are investigating the case as a suspected poisoning, since the bird was found without any external injuries, and are waiting for the results of the autopsy.
The dead female was found lying on the ground directly beneath her nest. Firefighters climbed up to the 35-metre high nest to see if there were any live young, but found only a dead few-week-old baby.
According to ornithologists, the poisoning of wild birds is a huge problem in the Czech Republic. The Czech Ornithological Society have documented and reported 139 such cases, in which 500 birds lost their lives, to the police since 2017, but they say the real number of poisonings is probably higher. Two people in the past have been sentenced in connection with poisoning birds.
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05/17/2023
Education Minister Mikuláš Bek will represent Czechia at the Sudeten German Congress in Regensburg, Bavaria, at the end of May, the Czech News Agency announced on Wednesday. Prime Minister Petr Fiala said that a Czech government representative would attend the convention when he met Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder last week, but did not name the person.
Relations between Sudeten Germans and the Czech government have improved significantly in recent years. Last year, the Czech national anthem was played for the first time at the convention, which Söder described as a symbol of the now friendly relations between Czechs and Germans.
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05/17/2023
The cabinet is due to again discuss doing away with normalisation-era edicts giving Russia rent free use of properties in Czechia at a meeting on Wednesday.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs officals there is no reason to continue to provide the relevant sites, which were given to the Soviet Union for use in nine Czechoslovak government resolutions from 1970 to 1982, free of charge.
The proposal was on the cabinet’s agenda two months ago. However, it was not discussed then and has since been fine-tuned further.
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05/17/2023
The minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, says a Roma family whose home was firebombed in 2009 can ask for help if they feel threatened again. Two of the four neo-Nazi perpetrators of the arson attack got early release from prison on Tuesday.
Mr. Rakušan said the family were not automatically entitled to police protection but that a way had been found to help them. Police representatives met with them in recent days.
The attack in the Moravian town of Vítkov left three members of the Roma family injured. Then two-year-old Natália was left with burns on 80 percent of her body and without three fingers. She has since undergone over 100 operations.
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