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05/28/2022
A member of the European Parliament for Tomio Okamura’s Freedom and Direct Democracy party, Hynek Blaško, says he wants to run for president in elections early next year. Mr. Blaško announced his intention on Facebook and called on his supporters to help provide the 50,000 signatories required to stand for the position of head of state, Czech Television reported.
Over a dozen people have to date said they will run for the post, while other expected candidates, including ex-PM Andrej Babiš, have yet to officially throw their hats into the ring.
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05/28/2022
The Czech Republic on Friday granted temporary protection to another 900 refugees from Ukraine, a fall of over 100 on the same day a week earlier. A total of 375,566 special visas have been handed out to Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war on their country since it began in late February.
The minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, says around 75 or 80 percent of the refugees who have registered with the local authorities have remained in the Czech Republic.
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05/28/2022
It should be mainly overcast in the Czech Republic on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 16 degrees Celsius. Daytime highs are expected to climb through the following week.
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05/28/2022
A new exhibition at a communist-era labour camp at Ostrov in West Bohemia highlights the lives of prisoners there. Located at what is today known as the “Red Tower of Death” in Ostrov, it includes period photographs, biographical information on selected prisoners and the testimonies of survivors, who were forced to mine uranium in extremely dangerous conditions.
The exhibition was prepared by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in Prague in cooperation with the Czech Confederation of Political Prisoners, which now owns the site.
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05/28/2022
The 2021 Bludný balvan (Glacial Erratic) Czech parody award has gone to billionaire businessman Karel Janeček and the association Zdravé forum (Healthy Forum), in both cases for disinformation relating to Covid-19.
Explaining the awards on its website, the Sisyfos Club of Czech Sceptics said Mr. Janeček, who came first in the individual category, had warned of the long-term dangers of vaccines against Covid but not the threat of long Covid.
The organisers said Zdravé forum had downplayed the risks of catching the coronavirus.
Mr. Janeček is standing for president but is not considered one of the front-runners.
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05/27/2022
The Czech National Ice Hockey Team will be facing Canada in the World Championship semi-finals on Saturday after beating Germany 4:1 in the quarter-finals on Thursday afternoon. Canada won their quarter-final match against Sweden that same evening. The match on Saturday will begin at 18:20 GMT+3.
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05/27/2022
The Olomouc-born tennis star Karolína Muchová did not make it past the third round in the French Open tournament today after sustaining an injury. She won the first set against American player Amanda Anisimova, but sprained her right ankle in the second set, which she lost 2:6. She had her ankle taped and tried to continue playing, but lost the third set 0:3.
With Muchová’s defeat, there are no more Czech tennis players left in the women’s singles.
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05/27/2022
ČEZ, whose majority shareholder is the Czech government and is the largest utility company in Central and Eastern Europe, have announced that their natural gas prices will increase by 76 to 86 percent from July, compared to the last price list in early February, the news site Novinky.cz reported on Friday.
In contrast to electricity prices, where there will only be a significant increase for new customers, gas prices will rise for everyone.
However, Jiří Gavor, an analyst at energy consulting company ENA, told the Czech News Agency that although other suppliers will also increase their prices, this should be the tip of the iceberg, and prices should subsequently begin to fall.
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05/27/2022
The Covid-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic still appears to be slowing down, with around 1700 new cases registered in the last seven days, which is around 700 fewer than the week before. However, the number of tests being carried out has also decreased, partly due to the fact that since May 5, insurance companies have only paid for tests if they were issued at the request of a doctor.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, there were 138 people in hospital with Covid on Thursday, down from 200 a week ago, and there were 13 Covid-related deaths in the country last week, up from nine the week before.
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05/27/2022
A re-enactment of the 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich took place this morning in Prague’s Libeň district, to mark the 80th anniversary of the historic event. The re-enactment took place shortly after 10.30, the same time that the real attack took place, and was then followed by a memorial service which included the laying of wreaths.
The event was attended by crowds of spectators and representatives of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom, including Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský, Czech Defence Minister Jana Černochová, Slovak Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď, and British Foreign Minister Liz Truss.
This year was the first time that the anniversary of the assassination was officially recognised as the Day of National Defiance. The assassination of Heydrich is considered to be one of the greatest acts of European domestic resistance during World War II and contributed to the post-war reconstruction of Czechoslovakia.
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