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01/22/2014
Nine people have been arrested following raids by the police’s organised crime unit on two Czech Post buildings in Prague on Wednesday. Three of those arrested are Czech Post employees. A police spokesperson said the operation concerned an organised group that had manipulated Czech Post tenders relating to construction projects. Právo reported that the raids and arrests were linked to a former Czech Post employee who was in charge of public tenders and left the organisation six months ago.
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01/22/2014
Plans to make Prague’s Smetanovo nábřeží embankment and Malá Strana car-free once the tunnel Blanka goes into operation may not now go ahead, iDnes.cz reported. Turning the embankment and Malá Strana into pedestrian-only zones would cause transport problems elsewhere in the centre of the city, according to a report commissioned by City Hall and quoted by the news site. An experiment in which Smetanovo nábřeží, running from Charles Bridge to the National Theatre, was closed to cars for several Saturdays last autumn led to traffic jams in other places, while tram services had to be rerouted.
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01/22/2014
Hořící keř (Burning Bush), Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s film about the aftermath of the 1969 self-immolation of Jan Palach, has received 14 nominations for this year’s Czech Lion domestic movie awards. Jako nikdy (Like Never Before) by Zdeněk Tyc has 12 nominations. The Czech Lion awards are voted on by the Czech Film and Television Academy. This year the event, which is under new management, will take place at Prague’s Rudolfinum on February 22.
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01/22/2014
Dominik Lang, who is 33, has won Czech art’s Personality of the Year award. The jury selected him on the basis of two solo exhibition he had last year, one in Vienna and one in České Budějovice, while they also praised his entry in the exhibition of finalists for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. Lang is the youngest artist to win the Personality of the Year prize and the first to hold it simultaneously with the Chalupecký Award.
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01/22/2014
Czech ice hockey goaltender Tomáš Vokoun is due to play for the first time since September after suffering from blood clots and undergoing emergency surgery. Vokoun, who is 37, will line up for Pittsburgh Penguins in a game on Wednesday, the club’s coach Dan Bylsma told a newspaper. Bylsma said the goalie had stopped taking blood thinning medication a week ago and would undergo tests after the match.
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01/22/2014
The Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute has extended a black ice alert for the entire Czech Republic. It had been in place until 11:00 on Wednesday but has been prolonged indefinitely. Motorists in all regions of the country faced snow and ice on Wednesday morning, though road maintenance officials said all motorways were clear. Several centimetres of snow fell on Tuesday night.
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01/21/2014
Three former Civic Democrat MPs have made a claim for compensation after being held in custody in connection with alleged bribe-taking but released without charge. Then party rebels Petr Tluchoř, Marek Šnajdr and Ivan Fuksa were last year accused of taking bribes in the form of lucrative posts at semi-state companies in exchange for preventing the fall of the government. However, the case was thrown out on the grounds they were covered by parliamentary immunity. Their compensation claims over the destruction of their political careers was revealed by a Ministry of Justice representative. He would not say how much the three were demanding, but there have been reports that they want CZK 4 million each. Their arrests were part of a scandal that brought down the centre-right government of Civic Democrat PM Petr Nečas.
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01/21/2014
The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, will make a state visit to China in the autumn in connection with the 65th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral relations between the two countries, the newspaper Hospodářské noviny reported on Tuesday. Mr. Zeman is expected to meet the Chinese president, Xi Jinping. It will be the first visit by a Czech president since Václav Klaus accepted an invitation to the communist state in 2004. Mr. Zeman, like his immediate predecessor, is expected to focus on boosting Czech export opportunities and to steer clear of the issue of human rights.
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01/21/2014
A number of deputies in the planned government of the Social Democrats, ANO and the Christian Democrats have not yet signed a coalition agreement between the three, the Czech News Agency reported. The plan was to have the deal signed by all 111 MPs by Tuesday. However, some Social Democrats and Christian Democrats are said to have not added their signatures to the document. There have been reports that a number of deputies are reluctant to sign the part of the coalition agreement touching on the division of cabinet seats.
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01/21/2014
The Czech Foreign Ministry is to set up a consular office in the Russian city of Sochi for next month’s Winter Olympics. Around 2,000 Czech sports fans are expected to visit Sochi during the event, a Foreign Ministry official said on Tuesday. They have been advised to follow instructions from organisers and police officers and warned not to get into altercations with the security forces or take photographs of strategic or military buildings.
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