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05/27/2022
Saturday looks set to be mostly overcast with some wind and showers likely, and day temperatures between 12 and 16 degrees Celsius.
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05/27/2022
The Prague City Assembly voted on Thursday to revoke the city’s honorary citizenship for Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, who was in overall command of the Soviet forces that entered Prague towards the end of the Prague Uprising. Marshal Konev had held the honorary citizenship since June 1945. It was taken away due to some of his controversial acts, such as the bombing of Mlada Boleslav after the war, or his participation in crushing the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, the Czech News Agency reports.
The decision was opposed by some representatives of the ANO party, which is currently in opposition. Some of their representatives in the Assembly described it as a useless and populist gesture.
Ivan Konev was one of Josef Stalin’s favourite generals and would rise to command key Red Army formations during the war. During the Cold War he served as the supreme commander of the forces of the Warsaw Pact.
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05/27/2022
The Czech Republic is marking the 80th anniversary of Operation Anthropoid this Friday, May 27. The assassination of the acting Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich by parachutists Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš is seen as one of the greatest successes of the Czechoslovak resistance movement during the Second World War. A reconstruction of the action is taking place in Prague’s Libeň neighbourhood. Among the guests will be UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.
In the evening a ceremonial gathering at the National Museum in Prague will see the opening of a special exhibition dedicated to the action, titled “We will never give up! (Nikdy se nevzdáme!). The event will be attended by Czech President Miloš Zeman and his Slovak counterpart Zuzana Čaputová.
Several other smaller events are taking place across the country to mark the occasion.
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05/26/2022
The Czech National Ice Hockey Team beat Germany 4:1 on Thursday afternoon in the quarterfinals of the World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. Goals by David Pastrňák, Roman Červenka and David Krejčí placed the Czechs in a comfortable 3:0 lead going into the last third of the game. Moritz Seider managed to lower the lead in the 54th minute, but it was not to be. Forward Jiří Smejkal scored the last goal of the game in the 59th minute into the empty net.
The victory means that the Czech team is now in the semi-finals, where it will face either Canada, Slovakia, Switzerland or the USA.
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05/26/2022
The National Institute of Public Health (SZÚ) has confirmed three further cases of monkeypox in the Czech Republic, bringing the total number up to five. According to the hygienists, all of the individuals live in Prague. The SZÚ stated that all five cases are of a milder variant of the virus belonging to the West African group, where the mortality rate lies at one percent.
Two of the positive samples were sent from the Military University Hospital in Prague and one from the Na Bulovce hospital in the same city, SZÚ spokeswoman Štěpánka Čechová said on Thursday. She said that the SZÚ has received no further samples to examine at the moment.
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05/26/2022
Czech National Football Team striker Patrik Schick, who has been playing for Bayer Leverkusen since 2020, has extended his contract with the Bundesliga side until the summer of 2027, the team has announced on its website.
The 26-year-old scored 24 goals in just 27 league games last season. Bayer Leverkusen’s Sport Director Simon Rolfes said in an official statement that there are only a few forwards of Schick’s type in the world.
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05/26/2022
Tomáš Zima, the former rector of Charles University, has told daily Deník that he intends to run for the office of Czech President. The statement was made in an interview which is set to be published on Friday.
In a short excerpt, shared with the Czech News Agency, Mr Zima said that he would like to be a president that unifies society and that he wants to present a vision of a satisfied and safe country that is without extremes.
In order to be able to run for the presidency, the former rector first needs to collect at least 50,000 citizen signatures.
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05/26/2022
Karolína Plíšková was surprisingly defeated by France’s Leolia Jeanjean 2:6 2:6 in the second round of the French Open on Thursday. The Czech world number 8 looked tired as she made several mistakes against her unseeded opponent.
Plíšková is the third Czech women’s tennis star to see an early finish at this year’s Roland Garros after title defender Barbora Krejčíková was knocked out in the first round and Petra Kvitová in the second. Only Karolína Muchová remains. She will face world number 28 Amanda Anisimova on Friday.
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05/26/2022
Friday will see temperatures range around 20 degrees Celsius with overcast skies and rainfall especially likely in the central and northern parts of the country.
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05/26/2022
The Czech Republic supports Moldova’s efforts to join the European Union, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said after a meeting with his Moldovan counterpart Nicolae Popescu on Thursday. Mr Lipavský added that this will also be one of the priorities during the Czech Republic’s presidency of the EU Council in the second half of this year.
Moldova, along with Georgia, applied for EU membership on March 3, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Foreign Minister Popescu said that his country has filled out the EU questionnaire and expects a reply from the European Commission during the first half of June. A key factor will be the results of talks between member states on the EU Council.
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