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03/21/2023
The population of Czechia increased by roughly 16,700 inhabitants to 10.5 million last year, according to data published by the Czech Statistics Office on Tuesday. The upward trend was driven mainly by migration. Roughly 57,000 people immigrated to the country in 2022, while around 20,000 emigrated. The office registered just under 100,000 newborns, the lowest number in 17 years. Over 120,200 people died last year.
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03/21/2023
Leverkusen striker Patrik Schick has been voted the best Czech footballer of the year for the second year in a row. The 27-year-old defending champion won the title in a poll conducted by the Football Association of the Czech Republic, coming more than 200 points ahead of Fiorentina midfielder Antonín Barák. Plzeň goalkeeper Jindřich Staněk finished third by just one point.
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03/21/2023
Czechia has come through the winter months well thanks to a significant reduction in gas consumption, Industry and Trade Minister Josef Sikela told reporters in Prague on Tuesday. He said storage tanks are now more than half full, which is a significant improvement on last year. He predicted that if the energy-saving policy continues at the same level, the country should withstand the coming winter without great difficulty as well. He also stressed that Czechia has not received any natural gas from Russia since the beginning of the year.
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03/21/2023
The ČEZ Energy Group reported a record net profit of CZK 80.7 billion last year, up from CZK 9.9 billion the previous year. According to the company, the significant increase reflects the soaring energy prices due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, record profits from commodity trading on foreign markets and the high operational reliability of ČEZ power plants. The result has far surpassed analysts' estimates.
Prime Minister Petr Fiala said he wants to use roughly CZK 100 billion of the ČEZ energy group's levies to help deal with high electricity prices, build motorways and boost defence spending.
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03/21/2023
Czechia has offered to help with the restoration of historic buildings ravaged by fire in Slovakia’s Banská Štiavnica last week. Czech Culture Minister Martin Baxa told the ctk news agency he had extended an offer of assistance in a phone conversation with Slovak Culture Minister Natalia Milanova and said the head of the Czech National Museum Michal Lukeš will travel to Slovakia in the next few days to discuss the offer in detail. Prague City Hall has also said it is planning to send a financial donation to the Slovak city.
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03/21/2023
On an official visit to Germany, Czech President Petr Pavel highlighted the important role Germany plays in European affairs and the excellent state of bilateral relations between the two neighbor states. “We are writing a new chapter in European history and Germany can play a decisive role in the process," President Pavel said following Tuesday’s meeting with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Berlin. Steinmeier said the Czech Republic and Germany are close allies in the EU and NATO and thanked Czechia for leading the multinational NATO battle group in Slovakia.
President Pavel will also meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the late afternoon. Germany is Czechia’s biggest business partner in Europe.
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03/21/2023
Czech President Petr Pavel was received with military honours in Berlin on Tuesday morning at Bellevue Palace, the official residence of the President of Germany, by his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Before leaving for Berlin, the Czech head of state said that he wanted to use the trip to reset presidential relations and that he does not expect any contentious issues to be discussed.
Mr Pavel will also meet unofficially with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the late afternoon.
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03/21/2023
Retired Czech tennis legend Martina Navrátilová has been cured of cancer, the Czech News Agency announced on Tuesday. Navrátilová, who lives in the US, was diagnosed with stage 1 cancer of the larynx last November as well as breast cancer, which had returned after 13 years in remission.
During a long and successful career, Navrátilová won a total of 59 Grand Slam titles and was one of only three players in history to win in all three categories: singles, doubles and mixed doubles. She spent a total of 332 weeks at the top of the world rankings and in 2006, she became the oldest Grand Slam winner in history when she won her last major title, the mixed doubles crown at the US Open, shortly before her 50th birthday.
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03/20/2023
Tuesday is expected to be overcast with some chance of rain in the morning and day temperatures ranging between 6 and 13 degrees Celsius.
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03/20/2023
Russian oligarch Mikhail Arustamov is no longer the owner of the Prague Communication and Social Centre, which rents the cultural and commercial building Slovanský dům from the City of Prague, Czech Radio reported on Monday. The new owner, Jean-Gabriel Arqueros, a French businessman who previously worked for banks in Switzerland and focused on Russian clientele, has also replaced Arustamov as the owner of companies that manage other properties in Prague, such as the Albatros office building on Národní třída or the First Republic Palace in Spálená Street. Like Arustamov, he is registered as living in Geneva, Switzerland.
Arustamov started getting rid of lucrative real estate that he owned in Czechia last autumn. In the following months, his daughter Polina was registered as the owner instead of him. Now she has been replaced by the former banker, but according to analyst Marek Chromý from the anti-corruption organization Transparency International, Arqueros could just be the owner on paper.
Mikhail Arustamov is a Russian oligarch with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He is the former vice president of the Russian state oil company Transneft, where he began his career alongside Nikolai Tokarev, one of the most influential Russian oligarchs, a close associate of Putin and a former KGB agent. However, unlike Tokarev, Arustamov is not yet on any sanctions lists.
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