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08/11/2020
It should be sunny in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, with temperatures of up to 28 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to be overcast with daytime highs also in the high 20s Celsius.
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08/11/2020
An exhibition of posters by the Art Nouveau pioneer Alphonse Mucha is planned for Prague’s Municipal House. A show featuring the posters, which were collected by former tennis star Ivan Lendl, drew 185,000 visitors seven years ago. This time digital versions of some of the works will give the exhibition an interactive aspect. It opens on 21 August.
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08/11/2020
The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, says he is surprised that the Greek authorities have decided to include the Czech Republic on a list of states whose citizens need a negative Covid-19 test in order to enter the country. He said the Czech crisis staff would now have to increase the number of testing points so those travelling to Greece would be able to get tested.
Mr. Babiš said he had written to his Greek counterpart, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, asking him to reconsider the decision, which will come into effect next Wednesday. The Czech Republic is one of a number of countries to which the condition applies.
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08/11/2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Prague on Tuesday morning for a two-day official visit during which he and top Czech officials are due to discuss cyber security, responses to the growing global influence of Russia and China, and the development of 5G mobile networks.
Pompeo’s programme on Tuesday is mainly in Pilsen, where he and Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček will together commemorate the liberation of the city by Americans troops at the close of World War II and visit the Plzeňský Prazdroj brewery.
On Wednesday, he is due to meet Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and President Miloš Zeman and deliver a speech in the Senate. The following morning, Pompeo will begin a tour of other Central European countries, including Slovenia, Austria and Poland.
Babiš said he considers bilateral trade to be a priority in his discussions with Pompeo, along with the coronavirus, while the American side is expected to address the building of new nuclear units at Czech power plants.
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08/11/2020
A traveling exhibition commemorating the life and work of writer and playwright Karel Čapek opens in Prague’s Wallenstein Garden on Tuesday, where it will remain through 31 August. It then moves to the Vinohrady neighbourhood where Čapek lived with his brother, Josef, himself a writer and painter.
Curator Kristina Váňová said the exhibition will focus on how Čapek developed not only as a writer and playwright but as a photographer, collector of ethnic music, educator and thinker. It will also show the importance of his studies and travels in Europe to forming his worldview, and his friendship with Czechoslovak President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
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08/10/2020
Prague’s annual Lunchmeat Festival, featuring independent electronic music and digital art, will run from September 28 to October 3, organisers announced.
Featured headliners include the Scottish singer, producer and DJ Sophie, who was nominated for a Grammy last year, and German DJ Helena Hauff, who creates so-called dark techno and reworks music from the late ’80s and early ’90s.
The Lunchmeat Festival, which has been offering an experimental 360° live stream on its Facebook page since early April, will take place at Prague’s Trade Fair Palace, the Archa Theatre and other venues to be specified later along with the names of other participating artists.
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08/10/2020
Two leading Czech athletes have separately announced on social media that they have Lyme disease. Biathlete Eva Kristejn Puskarčíková and kayaker Josef Dostál said they were infected with the tick-borne disease about a month ago.
Puskarčíková, a member of the bronze mixed relay from this year's World Championships, had gone to train in Ramsau, Austria with other Czech biathletes last week, where she was diagnosed with Lyme disease.
Dostál, who won gold medals at the national championship in Račice at the turn of July and August, said he learned he had had gotten the disease right after a bike trip weeks ago.
In the Czech Republic alone, around 4,000 people a year are diagnosed with the tick-borne disease. Scientists from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences announced in May that they have successfully tested a potential new vaccine developed by US pharmaceutical company Sanofi.
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08/10/2020
The Museum of West Bohemia in Pilsen has announced that a treasure trove of hundreds of gold and silver coins from the 14th century were found in a forest near the Kladruby monastery in the Tachov region.
The museum will present the find to journalists on Wednesday, a spokesperson said. An unnamed man found the coins in March when walking through the forest in Stříbrsko. A gold coin and several silver ones were exposed after being dug up by wild pigs, the museum spokesperson said.
Among the coins are gold ducats bearing the image of Charles IV, Albrecht of Austria, Rupert of the Palatinate, and from the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, and silver groschen of Wenceslas II, John of Luxembourg and Charles IV. The trove was likely buried in the late 1370s.
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08/10/2020
Heavy thunderstorms are due to hit much of Bohemia, Vysočina and southern Moravia on Tuesday, with torrential rain warnings in some localities. Daytime highs should range between 24 to 28 degrees Celsius.
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08/10/2020
Four panels in an open-air Prague exhibition dedicated to the anti-communist politician Milada Horáková, executed 70 years ago following a show trial, were destroyed on Sunday night.
The exhibition was prepared by the Kampa Museum, located in a park by the Vltava River. Jiří Pospišíl, chairman of the foundation that manages the museum, condemned the vandalism.
Horáková was a democratic politician in Masaryk’s First Republic and a resistance figure during the war, imprisoned by the Nazis in the Terezín concentration camp. She was the only female political prisoner executed by the Communist regime.
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