-
08/16/2013
The majority of actors in Prague’s National Theatre who resigned in protest against the dismissal of the theatre’s director have withdrawn their resignations, the head of the theatre’s drama department said on Friday. Nearly half of the ensemble resigned after Culture Minister Jiri Balvin dismissed the National Theatre’s director, Jan Burian, earlier this month. But the decision caused outrage among the arts community and politicians, and the prime minister ordered Mr Balvín to reinstate the theatre’s director. Two of best known actors in the National Theatre, Miroslav Donutil and Richard Krajčo, have not withdrawn their resignations and will cooperate with the theatre as freelancers.
-
08/16/2013
Family and friends on Friday paid their last respects to filmmaker Jiří Krejčík who passed away last week at the age of 95. The funeral took place in Prague’s St Vojtěch church, the same where Jiří Krejčík was baptized 95 years ago. Mr Krejčík’s best known films include the 1960 WWII drama Higher Principle, the biographical film about the singer Ema Destinová entitled The Divine Ema, and others.
-
08/16/2013
The police have charged a 22-year-old man over the deaths of four girls who died in an accident during last November’s rally race in Lopeník, in the east of the country. The girls were killed by a car which swerved off the track; the police said the man, in his capacity as a track marshal, had failed to order them out of the restricted zone. If convicted, the man faces up to six years in prison.
-
08/15/2013
The Czech Republic has expressed grave concern over the latest developments in Egypt. In a statement released on Thursday the Czech Foreign Ministry called for restraint on both sides, an end to the violence and a return to political dialogue which would open the way to democratic reforms. The ministry also expressed deep sympathy for the victims’ families. A state of emergency is in place in the country following a clampdown by security forces on supporters of the deposed president Mohamed Mursi which claimed over 500 lives.
-
08/15/2013
The Czech Foreign Ministry has issued a warning to Czech tourists in Egypt advising them not to stray from their beach resorts, which are still deemed relatively safe and not to undertake solo trips around the country. The ministry warns against trips to Cairo and other big cities where there is a danger of more street violence.
-
08/15/2013
The Czech national who is being investigated by the Egyptian authorities in connection with the unexplained death of his 36-year-old wife and eight-year-old daughter in Hurghada two weeks ago has asked to be allowed to travel home. The request was made in connection with the unstable situation in the country. The man is a suspect in the ongoing investigation and although the authorities have returned his passport he is not allowed to leave the country until the investigation is concluded. An autopsy on the bodies was conducted both in Egypt and here in the Czech Republic but no official reports have so far been released. According to an Egyptian doctor who examined the bodies the mother and daughter were poisoned.
-
08/15/2013
Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to attend the September Forum 2,000 conference in Prague, the ctk news agency reports. According to the conference organizers the chairwoman of the National League for Democracy has accepted an invitation to address the conference which will focus on countries in transition. The conference was established by the late ex-president Vaclav Havel who was a strong supporter of Burma’s leading dissident in the years when she was under house arrest. Aung San Suu Kyi received an invitation to attend Forum 2,000 every year for over a decade, as a show of support and respect, although it was clear she would not be able to travel.
-
08/15/2013
The former first lady Livia Klausová is to be named ambassador to Slovakia, and former astronaut, Communist party MEP Vladimir Remek will become the country’s ambassador to Russia, President Zeman’s Chancellor Vratislav Mynar told Czech Television on Thursday. Confirmation from Prague Castle means that both nominees have been approved by the host countries. The appointments of these two particular candidates were at the centre of a long-running dispute between the president and then-foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg, blocking several other problem-free nominations for weeks. Mr. Schwarzenberg has accused the president of using the Rusnok government to get his own way in the matter. It is not yet clear when the appointments will be made.
-
08/15/2013
Police are investigating whether former defence minister Vlasta Parkanová did not break the law when she published transcriptions of the police’s interrogations of all of the witnesses and accused persons in a case in which she faces charges of authorising an overpriced contract to purchase military planes. The former minister posted the materials on her own website without comment. The case has also been handed to the Office for Protection of Private Data. Several witnesses whose testimonies were published have protested against the move.
-
08/15/2013
An outdoor exhibition of draft versions of a joint Czech-Roma flag has been vandalised. The series of works, which are on located a site called the Artwall on a Prague embankment, are by Slovak artist Tomáš Rafa and are intended to spur a discussion on co-existence between the majority population and the Roma minority. Earlier this week somebody threw paint at all seven of the proposed flag designs, which combine the Czech tricolour with an international Roma flag created in the early 1970s. The far-right Workers Party of Social Justice have filed a complaint against the project, which they say breaches the law on use of Czech state symbols.
Pages
- « první
- ‹ předchozí
- …
- 4125
- 4126
- 4127
- 4128
- 4129
- 4130
- 4131
- 4132
- 4133
- …
- následující ›
- poslední »