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10/26/2022
An exhibition commemorating the 80th anniversary of the extermination of the village of Lidice by the Nazis is currently on view at UNESCO's Paris headquarters. Among the works on display are dozens of paintings by children from more than 60 countries. The drawings were selected from an International Art Competition to honour the children murdered in Lidice during World War II and other conflicts around the world. The exhibition was opened in Paris by Czech Culture Minister Martin Baxa who drew a parallel between the brutality of the Nazi regime and Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. The exhibition will run until October 28.
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10/26/2022
Companies and institutions in Czechia are among the 65,000 entities in 111 countries whose data were leaked on the internet thanks to a misconfigured Azure Blob Storage at Microsoft, the ctk news agency reported. The leak reportedly concerns the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Finance, the largest domestic health insurance company VZP, T-Mobile and the country’s leading bank Česká spořitelna. Česká spořitelna and T-Mobile both said the leak did not relate to client data, while the Ministry of Finance tweeted that the leak of data was related to the ministry, and the information contained was no longer valid.
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10/25/2022
Wednesday should be partly cloudy to overcast with some rain in the western parts of the country and daytime highs between 12 and 17 degrees Celsius.
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10/25/2022
Health Minister Vlastimil Válek has warned that the threat posed by the Covid pandemic is not over, urging Czechs to get vaccinated. The minister said that despite dwindling Covid numbers in recent weeks a fresh wave of Covid was likely to hit the country in the autumn and the situation could be further exacerbated by an epidemic of the regular flu which has been absent for several years. Mr. Valek said November to January would be a critical period urging elderly people and high risk groups to get the jab as soon as possible in order to avoid a serious case of the illness. Covid vaccines are covered by health insurance in Czechia but vaccination is not compulsory.
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10/25/2022
Ministers from the Schengen zone, the eastern Partnership region, the Western Balkans, Central Asia and Turkey are taking part in a two-day conference on migration in Prague. On Monday, they adopted a joint declaration stating their readiness to cooperate in addressing the problem and outlined an action plan for the years 2023 to 2027. The action plan covers six areas of cooperation, including preventing and combating illegal migration, promoting return policies, and strengthening labour-related migration and asylum and international protection capacities. EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson said that three times more people are coming to the EU via the Balkan route than last year and ten times more than in 2018.
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10/25/2022
The vast majority of Czech cabinet ministers will not be attending the celebrations of Czechoslovak Independence Day at Prague Castle on October 28, the ctk news agency reported. Some of them, such as Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský, have failed to get invitations from President Zeman, others will absent themselves in protest against his policy of handing out invitations selectively based entirely on his personal preferences. Prime Minister Petr Fiala, who will be present at the annual ceremony at which the head of state hands out state distinctions, has also said he disapproves of the practice but feels he should be present at a state celebration of the founding of Czechoslovakia. There has been controversy surrounding the celebrations for several years now.
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10/25/2022
The environmental organizations Greenpeace and Bund Sachsen have lodged a joint complaint with the European Commission over the Czech-Polish agreement on the Turów mine. They claim that the agreement has not mitigated the negative impacts of continued coal mining at Turow which continues to cause extensive environmental damage and that, moreover, a clause in the agreement prevents them from taking the case before the EU Court of Justice.
The bilateral agreement on the Turów mine near the Czech-Polish border, signed in February, ended months of controversy over the negative impacts of continued mining and Poland’s plans to expand the mine closer to the Czech border. Poland paid Czechia €45 million (roughly CZK 1.1 billion) in compensation for the damage caused, and Prague withdrew a lawsuit it had filed against Poland at the EU Court of Justice over the mine. Residents on the Czech side of the border are increasingly concerned not only about noise and air pollution, but the loss of groundwater.
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10/25/2022
This year’s edition of the Ji.hlava international festival of documentary films gets underway on Tuesday. Across six days it will show around 380 films, nearly 100 of which are receiving their world premiere. The opening film is The Eighth Day of the War by Oksana Moiseniuk, which looks at Ukrainian women in Czechia following Russia’s invasion of their country.
The 26th edition Czechia’s biggest documentary event takes place in the Vysočina town of Jihlava.
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10/25/2022
From Tuesday Russians with Schengen visas from any EU state travelling for purposes of tourism, sport or culture are not allowed to enter the territory of Czechia. The Prague government decided on this move on the proposal of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 12.
The Czechs have joined the Baltic states, Poland and Finland, who recently closed their borders to Russian tourists in response to Moscow’s continued war on Ukraine.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that up to 200 Russian citizens a day were arriving in Czechia via international airports.
The Prague government issued a ban on visas for Russian and Belarusian citizens after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February. That prohibition is still in force, with exceptions for humanitarian cases.
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10/24/2022
The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, says he will attend an honours ceremony at Prague Castle on Friday’s October 28 national holiday despite the fact he does not like President Miloš Zeman’s selective approach to inviting guests. Mr. Fiala said on Facebook that it was not a private celebration of Mr. Zeman’s but a traditional event marking the anniversary of the foundation of the democratic Czechoslovakia.
It has been reported that the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, and the speaker of the Senate, Miloš Vystrčil, have not been invited.
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