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09/17/2022
The architect Vlado Milunic, who was born in Croatia but spent almost all his life in Czechia, has died at the age of 81. He is best-known for co-designing Prague’s now iconic Dancing Building with the American architect Frank Gehry in the early 1990s. Milunic taught at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he himself had studied architecture.
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09/17/2022
Prime Minister Petr Fiala has rejected opposition criticism that he is due to make a special televized address to the nation on Sunday evening, less than a week before municipal and Senate elections. He said on Saturday that the reason he was giving the speech was that the government had this week approved measures aimed at helping households and businesses cope with soaring power prices.
Opposition leader Andrej Babiš of ANO said Mr. Fiala was a coward for avoiding a TV debate with him. However, the PM said he could not make the discussion as he was flying to London for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
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09/17/2022
The former Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš says that heading a government is a role that suits him better than being president. Though there has been speculation that he will stand to succeed Miloš Zeman as head of state, the ANO leader has yet to declare as a candidate.
Mr. Babiš told Saturday’s edition of the newspaper Lidové noviny that during a series of meetings with the public voters had called on him not to run for head of state and that they wanted him back as PM.
The billionaire businessman said that he was a manager and that it was necessary to take action rather than “send signals”.
Polls suggest that if he stood for president he would come first in the first round but lose in a second-round run-off.
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09/17/2022
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Jan Lipavský, has called for the swift establishment of a special international tribunal that would investigate Russia’s actions in the Izyum area in Ukraine, which was recently liberated by Ukrainian forces.
Mr. Lipavský said on Saturday that Russia had left behind mass graves of hundreds of shot and tortured Ukrainians and that such attacks against the civilian population were unthinkable and abhorrent in the 21st century. He said Czechia stood for the punishment of all war criminals.
Ukrainian officials said that over 400 bodies were believed to be at a site in Izyum that Russia occupied.
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09/17/2022
The NATO Days in Ostrava and Days of the Czech Air Force Days event has got underway at the Mošnov airfield in the Moravian-Silesian Region. One of the largest military shows in Europe, the two-day free event this year features representatives of the army, security and rescue forces of a record 22 countries. In the past it has seen attendance of around 200,000.
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09/17/2022
The Church of St. Ludmila on the Prague square Naměstí míru has been officially upgraded to a basilica. The head of the Czech Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop Jan Graubner, served a special mass in connection with the change of status on Friday evening.
Pope Francis bestowed the honorary title of basilica minor on St. Ludmila’s in July. It is Prague’s fifth basilica.
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09/17/2022
The Czech lower house has approved in an accelerated process an amendment to the energy law that allows the government to cap electricity and gas prices for small consumers in some circumstances. The vote took place on Friday evening. The bill must now go before the Senate and be signed by the president.
The cabinet plans to cap both electricity and gas prices in a bid to lessen the impact of the current energy crisis on citizens. The new prices will apply in deposit payments from November under the scheme, for which CZK 130 billion has been earmarked.
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09/17/2022
It should be overcast with some rain in Czechia on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. Grey skies are forecast for most of the following week.
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09/16/2022
Female gorilla “Duni” is set to become a new addition to Prague Zoo. The daughter of Prague Zoo’s famous “Moji” previously lived in Spain’s Cabárceno Natural Park. She was loaded onto a Czech Army aircraft taking her to her new home on Friday. According to Cabárceno Natural Park’s staff, Duni looks very similar to her mother, but is a slightly larger animal, a trait that she most likely got after her father. It is hoped that Duni will give birth to her own offspring in Prague.
Last week, Prague Zoo welcomed male gorilla “Kisumu”, who is also expected to ensure the continuation of the city zoo’s gorilla population.
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09/16/2022
Experts from the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute have said that the Zlín Region, in the south-east of the Czech Republic, was hit by a small tornado on Thursday afternoon. According to preliminary estimates the whirlwind passed over a distance of around 1,200 metres and its funnel was up to 50 metres in size, Petr Münster from the Hydrometeorological Institute’s Brno branch told the Czech News Agency on Friday.
Local firefighters responded to around 20 emergencies in the afternoon and evening hours of Thursday. However, these were related to issues such as flooded cellars, or clearing away trees. Damages from the tornado were minimal.
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