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01/21/2014
Czech journalist, commentator and writer Milan Schulz, who for a quarter of a century broadcast on Radio Free Europe, has died at the age of 83. Mr. Schulz passed away in Munich, where he had remained after the US-funded station moved to Prague in the mid-1990s. Prior to leaving Czechoslovakia in 1969 he wrote for various newspapers and literary journals, as well as working with the popular Semafor theatre.
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01/21/2014
Restorers were on Tuesday due to remove the remaining statues on a Marian plague column on the main square in the Prague Castle complex. Three other statues were taken down at the start of the month. The decorations and the entire column, which is protected, are in a poor state and need to be repaired. The main work is scheduled to get underway this year with the monument expected to be returned to its former glory in 2016.
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01/21/2014
Brno’s main train station is set to play host to a local experimental theatre between the start of next month and the end of March. The D'Epog company will make use of a restaurant in the railway station that has been shut down for a number of performances of two plays. The unlikely residency came about when the developers which administers the station gave the drama group permission to use the space.
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01/21/2014
Czech men’s tennis number one Tomáš Berdych has reached the semi-finals at the Australian Open for the first time in his career. The 28-year-old, who is seeded seventh, overcame third seed David Ferrer of Spain 6-1 6-4 2-6 6-2 to book a place in the last four in Melbourne against Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland. The last Czech to reach the semis in the first Grand Slam of the season was Jiří Novák in 2002.
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01/21/2014
Sparta Prague are in negotiations to sign former player Radoslav Kováč next summer, a club official confirmed on Tuesday. The central defender and defensive midfielder, who has also had spells at Spartak Moscow and West Ham, is currently at Slovan Liberec but will be out of contract at the end of the season. Kováč, who is 34, has 30 caps with the Czech national side.
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01/21/2014
The Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute has issued a black ice alert for the entire Czech Republic until Wednesday morning at the soonest. The majority of regions were reporting icy roads by Tuesday lunchtime. Snow has been falling around the country and blankets of snow of between 1 and 5 centimetres are predicted by Wednesday morning. Motorists and pedestrians have been told to expect further black ice in the coming days.
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01/20/2014
Newly appointed Czech prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka of the Social Democrats, presented President Miloš Zeman with an official list of candidates for ministerial posts at Prague Castle on Monday evening. Sobotka said after the meeting there were no indications from the head of state that he would press for changes to the ministers proposed by the three coalition parties and added that he counted on the Cabinet being up and running by the end of January.
The list features eight representatives of Mr. Sobotka’s party, six candidates from ANO and three from the Christian Democrats. President Zeman has said he has reservations about the qualifications of a number of ministerial candidates and wants to hold individual talks with all of them starting on Wednesday.
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01/20/2014
The Šumava National Park would in the long term fare better if its management put the emphasis on expanding its unspoilt wilderness area, according to a study released on Monday. The study by a British based consultancy Eftec looked at the social and economic benefits of operating the park as it has been in recent years, allowing construction and ski developments, or expanding the wilderness area. Construction and ski development might bring short term benefits but would discourage eco-tourism which promises to take off over the next decade, it said. The study was commissioned by the Czech Academy of Sciences and will be handed over to the new minister of environment.
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01/20/2014
Crime increased in the Czech Republic last year by around 7 percent, the national police force announced on Monday. Police said they were faced with a work load of around 325,000 cases. One of the biggest increases last year was in burglaries of homes with a 20 percent rise in cases over the previous 12 months. Many newly completed homes had minimal security, police said. There were, however, six fewer murders than the previous year.
One of the biggest causes of the crime wave was the controversial amnesty of prisoners granted by former president Václav Klaus at the start of 2013. Police said they are now on the tracks of around 40 percent of the 6,300 prisoners released at the time.
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01/20/2014
A court in Prague on Monday began hearing the case of former defence minister Martin Barták and arms dealer Michal Smrž charged with corruption in the purchase of Tatra trucks for the Czech army. The prosecution believes that in 2008, Mr Barták in his capacity as then deputy defence minister asked the truck maker’s supervisory board head for a five-million dollar bribe to smoothen the deal. On Monday, Mr Barták denied any involvement in the alleged corruption, and dismissed the charges as “obvious nonsense”. If convicted, the former defence minister faces 12 years in prison.
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