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10/03/2013
A court in Prague on Thursday rejected a request by former Central Bohemian governor David Rath to be released from custody. Mr Rath, a former prominent member of the Social Democrats, was arrested in May 2012 on corruption charges; he faces accusations of manipulating public contracts awarded by the region. Another defendant in the case, the former director of a central Bohemian hospital Kateřina Pancová, was released from custody last week. The trial against Mr Rath and 10 other people started in August, and is expected to conclude in the coming months.
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10/03/2013
A court in Brno on Thursday rejected an appeal by Mercedes Dietrichstein who demanded the return of her former family property confiscated after WWII on the basis of the so-called Beneš decrees. Ms Dietrichstein sued several public institutions which now own the property including the chateau in Mikulov but a court in Břeclav rejected the lawsuit three years ago. For several centuries, the Dietrichsteins were one of the most significant aristocratic families in Moravia. Their property was confiscated after the Second World War as Ms Dietrichstein’s father was a member of the pro-Nazi Sudetendeutsche Partei. In a separate lawsuit against the town of Mikulov, Mercedes Dietrichstein has asked for the return of her family crypt and other property located in the town. A court in Břeclav is scheduled to hear the case in November.
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10/03/2013
The municipal library in the central Bohemian village of Milín has been named the Library of the Year by the Czech Culture Ministry. At a ceremony in Prague on Thursday, the jury praised the library’s outreach and its role in the life of the community. In the village with 2,100 inhabitants, the library last year registered over 11,000 visits. The prize for significant IT improvement was awarded to the library in Litvínov, in northern Bohemia. The library in Hradec Králové was named the best city library of 2013.
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10/03/2013
The Josef Jungmann prize for the best translation into Czech was awarded to Anežka Charvátová for her translation of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666 from Spanish. The Josef Jungmann prize has been given out annually since 1991 on the day of Saint Jerome, who is the patron saint of translators. At this year’s ceremony, Věra Koubová, who is best known for translations of Franz Kafka and Friedrich Nietzsche, was inducted into the hall of fame.
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10/03/2013
The Czech Association of Scouts and Guides has complained about a commercial campaign by the mobile phone operator T Mobile. In the series of video commercials launched in July, the firm pokes fun at the scouting movement whose members are presented as impractical and dull fools running around in the forest with phones and tablets, the association said. The operator has denied the claims, and said they had offered to sponsor the organization. However, the scout association said the firm never delivered on its promise.
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10/03/2013
The psychedelic rock band Plastic People of the Universe are marking their 45th anniversary with a concert in Prague on Thursday. The band was founded in the capital in September 1968. It was later banned by the communist authorities and its members were sentenced to prison terms in the 1970s which provoked the creation of the human rights manifesto Charter 77. The band, whose style is sometimes described as “dissident rock”, has recorded nine studio albums that were only officially released after the fall of communism.
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10/03/2013
CSKA Moscow defeated the Viktoria Plzeň football team 3:2 in a Champions League match in St. Petersburg on Wednesday night. This is Plzeň’s second match in the group stage of European football’s most prestigious competition. Having lost to Manchester City in their first game, the Czech title holders are now ranked last in their group. Plzeň will next play last season’s Champion League winners Bayern Munich in Germany.
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10/02/2013
Outgoing Prime Minister Jiří Rusnok has strongly criticized the Czech scientific community for not producing enough practical and profit-making results, in an interview for the Hospodařské noviny daily published on Wednesday. The premier was responding to criticism that his government’s budget for 2014 cut the amount allotted to science and research by 1.3 billion, compared to the budget proposed by the previous cabinet. Mr. Rusnok said that there are currently enough funds allocated to science, but that it is not being used effectively. In his opinion, the situation could be improved if the Education Ministry were divided into two institutions – one in charge of research and universities, the other taking care of primary and secondary schools as well as sports.
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10/02/2013
In a written testimony, Ratmír Rath, the father of the former Central Bohemian governor David Rath who is on trial for corruption, has claimed that the almost nine million crowns in cash that the police found last year in his son’s home in Hostivice belong to him. The defendant’s father was unable to attended the hearing on Wednesday for health reasons, but the testimony read out to the court stated that the money were his and his late wife’s savings, most of which Mr. Ratmír Rath earned when he worked as a doctor in Qatar in the 1990’s. The police confiscated the money during the raid last August, on suspicion that it was a bribe. David Rath and ten other defendants are on trial for bribe-taking and the manipulation of tenders in the construction and health care sectors in the Central Bohemia Region.
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10/02/2013
Mock elections are being held at nearly 400 secondary schools around the Czech Republic on Wednesday and Thursday, just over three weeks ahead of elections to the Chamber of Deputies. The project is organized by the NGO People in Need and is aimed at encouraging young people to take an interest in politics. Those aged 15 and over can take part. It is the fourth time Czech students are being asked to participate in mock elections.
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