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04/05/2022
For the first time in its history, the Prague Public Transit Company (DPP) is organising a tender for the purchase of hybrid buses into the city’s public transport fleet. The buses will combine combustion engines with electric batteries as a fuel supply. The company hopes to purchase 140 buses at a cost of CZK 2,017 billion crowns.
The winner of the tender will get a five year contract with the DPP. The vehicles in question need to have a minimum service time of 12 years and pass EU regulations for clean energy.
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04/05/2022
Art curator and academic Jiří Ševčík has died at the age of 82, the spokeswoman of the Academy of Fine Arts where Ševčík taught Petra Švecová announced on Tuesday. Together with his wife Jana, Ševčík had a major impact on Czech art, helping to popularise several of the countries artists during the 1980s.
Born in 1940 in the city of Pardubice, Ševčík worked as a journalist in the Czechoslovak “Architektura” magazine during the 1960s. He then worked as a researcher at the Architecture Faculty of the Czech Technical University in Prague.
After the Velvet Revolution, Ševčík was named chief curator at the Prague City Gallery and taught at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was also the author of several books on Czech and Slovak architecture.
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04/05/2022
The Czech Republic has sent Ukraine tens of T-72 tanks and armoured personnel carriers by train in order to help its army defend against Russian attacks, news site Echo24 reported on Tuesday. Defence Minister Jana Černochová confirmed that arms are being sent to Ukraine, but didn't specify which.
The materiel was sent as a gift to Ukraine after an agreement among NATO allies. The move marks the first time a foreign country has provided tanks to Ukraine, if confirmed.
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04/05/2022
Czech police are looking for a woman who set of a fire alarm for no apparent reason in the New Building of the National Museum on Thursday. The incident caused an estimated CZK 3 million in damages and the culprit could face up to six years in prison if convicted, the police website states.
The woman, estimated to be aged between 20 to 25 years old, was caught on CCTV footage and has since been identified by the police who are now searching for her.
According to police spokesman Jan Rybanský, the suspect pressed several fire alarms in the building in what seemed to be clear intent.
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04/05/2022
Labour Minister Marian Jurečka announced on Tuesday that 12,600 Ukrainian refugees managed to find employment in the Czech Republic in March. A further 10,000 have registered with the Labour Office, meaning that they are actively looking for work.
Meanwhile, 162,000 refugees have requested the states humanitarian cash allowance of CZK 5,000. Of these, 154,000 requests have been processed, the minister said. There are an estimated 300,000 Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic at the moment, most of whom are located in Prague and the Central Bohemian region.
April will see the launch of a language learning system for refugees, which is being organised by the Labour Office in cooperation with the private sector.
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04/05/2022
Czech Radio’s news site iROZHLAS.cz has acquired an official list of websites from the country’s military intelligence service that the spy agency requested to be removed from the republic’s internet infrastructure. The information was initially kept secret by the military intelligence service.
The list contains more than 20 websites, which military intelligence describes as “known and confirmed entities taking part in hybrid activity supporting the aggressive steps taken by the Russian Federation”. According to Czech military intelligence this was a “preventative measure” which would remove access to disinformation news sites.
However, according to a Czech Radio reader’s survey, many of the sites are still accessible if the user changes their VPN address.
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04/05/2022
Temperatures are expected to lie at around 15 degrees Celsius on Wednesday with partially overcast skies and no rainfall.
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04/05/2022
Most of the final year students at Czech high schools do not feel that they have been sufficiently prepared for the country’s “maturita” final exam, the Chairman of the Czech High School Union (ČSU) Ondřej Nováček told the Czech News Agency on Tuesday. He cited the long-term effects of the coronavirus pandemic and stress caused by the conflict in Ukraine as primary reasons behind why students do not feel ready.
The union is therefore planning to propose an adjustment to the state’s regular final exam format in the coming months.
Final exams are set to take place from May to June. Students will have more time for each individual exam this year when compared to the past. For example, language exams will be extended by 10 minutes and mathematics exams by 15 minutes.
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04/05/2022
Agriculture Minister Zdeněk Nekula said on Tuesday that he wants to add the agriculture and food production sectors into the country’s list of critical infrastructure. In an Agriculture Ministry press release, Mr Nekula stated that it is important to ensure these sectors remain well supplied if the country were to be hit by a lack of gas deliveries, so that food production can continue.
The statement was made ahead of a meeting of government ministers where Mr Nekula also plans to argue for CZK 270 million of EU financial support for the country’s most heavily hit sectors.
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04/05/2022
The part of Prague’s Korunovační street along which the Russian Embassy is located has been officially renamed to “Ukranian heroes” street, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday citing data from the city’s cadastral map. The renaming was approved by Prague City Hall last month. Councillor Jan Chabr says that a new set of street signs should be added by the end of April.
Renaming the street was originally proposed by the administration of Prague 6, the capital’s district in which the Russian Embassy is located.
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