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02/14/2007
The Czech Interior Ministry Ivan Langer has announced that he wants to simplify access to the files of the Communist secret police, known as the StB. Mr Langer told journalists today that he wanted to allow the public to look into documents recounting the practices of the totalitarian regime, which have not yet been published. All StB-related documents will be filed in a single workplace, declassified and made accessible on the Internet in digital form, Langer said. The Interior Ministry currently administers 17 kilometres of records from the former StB.
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02/14/2007
A 27-year-old man died on Wednesday evening after jumping from Nusle Bridge in Prague. Police are investigating the incident. There is, as yet, no information on the man's identity or the reasons why he jumped. He is the second man this year to kill himself by jumping off the 40-m bridge. More than 200 people have committed suicide by jumping off the Nusle Bridge since it first opened in 1973. Unofficial figures, however, put the number of deaths closer to 300.
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02/14/2007
Prague mayor Pavel Bem's plans to take two months of unpaid leave in order to climb Mount Everest have met with criticism from his Civic Democratic Party. Several high ranking party members, including deputy chairman Petr Necas, have publicly criticized Mr. Bem's plans, saying that as mayor of Prague he has a lot of responsibility and cannot walk away from the job for that length of time. Others have spoken out in the mayor's defence saying that his mountaineering expedition will attract a lot of publicity for Prague and arguing that this is part of the mayor's job.
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02/14/2007
The Czech police say they have detained a highly organized gang of car thieves operating across several European states. 26 people from the Czech Republic and the former Soviet Union have been arrested in connection with the case. Two policemen from Olomouc have also been arrested for allegedly assisting the gang. If convicted the ring-leaders could face a sentence of up to nine years. Roughly 20,000 cars are stolen in the Czech Republic every year.
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02/14/2007
Czech President Vaclav Klaus and his wife Livia were received by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan on Wednesday. The president is an official four-day visit to Japan with Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg.. Apart from strengthening ties with Japan, President Klaus wants to help change the Czech Republic's negative trade balance with that country. The president and Mr Schwarzenberg are being accompanied on the trip by representatives of 14 leading Czech companies.
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02/13/2007
The Czech Intelligence Service has cast doubt on allegations that the former prime minister and long-serving Central Bank governor Josef Tosovsky cooperated with the communist-era secret police. A spokesman for the Intelligence Service said that had Mr. Tosovsky been an official agent his name would have appeared on the list of secret police agents. The daily Mlada Fronta Dnes made the allegations in its Monday edition, citing interior ministry archives. The paper said Mr. Tosovsky had drafted economic analyses at the request of the communist secret police and handed over notes from meetings with foreign financiers. Josef Tosovsky, now head of the Financial Stability Institute in Switzerland, has denied the allegations.
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02/13/2007
Around 200 opponents of a US radar base in the Czech Republic held a protest outside the Office of the Government on Tuesday. They unfurled banners and erected tents, saying they were setting up a peaceful anti-radar base. The protesters said their main goal was to convince Czech politicians to let the public decide the matter freely in a national referendum. The radar base would be part of a US missile defense system located jointly in the Czech Republic and Poland.
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02/13/2007
A Prague court ruled on Tuesday that the City Hall was wrong to ban a protest march against the possible deployment of a US radar base in the Czech Republic at the end of January. The court said that the reasons cited by the City Hall - namely a possible disruption of traffic and concerns for the protesters' safety - were flimsy and inadequate. The march went ahead despite the ban; police had started investigating it as an illegally held event, but will now have to close the case. The City Hall's decision to ban the event was criticized by the opposition Social Democrats and the Communists.
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02/13/2007
Czech President Vaclav Klaus on Tuesday met Japanese business leaders at the start of an official four-day visit to Japan. He later received an honorary doctorate at Waseda University in Tokyo. On Wednesday the Czech president and his wife Livia are to be received by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. Apart from strengthening ties with Japan, President Klaus wants to help change the Czech Republic's negative trade balance with that country. The president is accompanied by representatives of 14 leading Czech companies.
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02/13/2007
The State Attorney in Ostrava has brought new charges against fugitive Czech billionaire Radovan Krejcir who stands accused of extensive fraud, the daily Pravo writes. The new charges concern illegal bank transactions made in 1997 when Mr Krejcir allegedly transferred 270 million crowns into a foreign account via a Swiss bank. Radovan Krejcir, who is suspected of extensive fraud and conspiracy to murder, fled to the Seychelles with his family in June 2005. He is being prosecuted as a fugitive.
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