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08/14/2013
Police have charged journalist Jiří X. Doležal with promoting drug use over an article he wrote in the weekly Reflex, a spokesperson for the magazine said on Wednesday. The police said the piece by Mr. Doležal was accompanied by an out of focus photograph that would enhance the experience of smoking marijuana and came in an issue – which reported on this year’s marijuana crop – that also contained rolling papers and filters. Reflex’s deputy editor Jaroslav Plesl was also arraigned. The police said they had sought an expert opinion before filing the charges.
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08/14/2013
Zuzana Hejnová easily advanced to the final of the women’s 400m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow on Tuesday. Hejnová, who has not been defeated this season, is the Czech Republic’s biggest medal hopeful in Moscow. She will take part in the final later today. Runner Pavel Maslák came fifth in the men’s 400m final on Tuesday in a time of 44.91 seconds, breaking his own Czech record.
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08/14/2013
Czech national team striker Matěj Vydra has joined the English Premiership club West Bromwich Albion on a season-long loan from Italy’s Udinese. The 21-year-old, who has only ever made two appearances for his parent club, was voted Player of the Year in England’s Championship after scoring 20 goals in 41 matches for Watford last term.
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08/14/2013
The Czech Republic’s footballers take on Hungary on Wednesday night, in what will be their last warm-up game before key World Cup qualifiers against Armenia and Italy next month. Coach Michal Bílek is without stars Petr Čech and Tomáš Rosický for the game in Budapest. With six of 10 games played, the Czechs lie third in their qualification group for the World Cup in Brazil, one point behind second-placed Bulgaria.
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08/13/2013
Caretaker Prime Minister Jiří Rusnok handed his resignation to President Milos Zeman on Tuesday morning, after his cabinet failed to win a vote of confidence in the lower house last week. Mr. Rusnok’s government will remain in office until the next general elections. President Zeman appointed the interim government in early July, despite criticism from the Chamber of Deputies. The lower house is scheduled to vote on its dissolution next Tuesday and if the motion is approved, the president will have to schedule early elections within 60 days.
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08/13/2013
Jiří Rusnok’s caretaker cabinet approved two controversial ambassadorial appointments even before its confidence vote last week, the daily Lidové noviny wrote on Tuesday. According to the paper the cabinet approved a number of ambassadorial appointments in late July including that of former first lady Livia Klausová to Slovakia and that of former astronaut and Communist MEP Vladimír Remek to Russia. Both nominations were at the center of a highly public dispute earlier this year between President Miloš Zeman, who supported them, and then foreign minister Karel Schwarzenberg, who was strongly against the candidates. Because of diplomatic protocol, the government’s approval of the two candidates has not been officially confirmed, ahead of approval by the host countries, but the prime minister indicated that the appointments had been pre-negotiated with Moscow and Bratislava.
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08/13/2013
The S-Card project for electronic social benefits payments, which has so far cost the Czech state 82.54 million crowns, will cost more than five million crowns to close down, Labor Minister František Koníček said at a press conference on Tuesday. The S-Card system will be terminated gradually until through the end of next March. The more than 270,000 current holders of the S-Card will be offered to receive social benefits payments either through the post office or by transfer to their bank accounts. The project was spearheaded by the former labor minister Jaromír Drábek, who was hoping to save the ministry money on distribution of benefits, though the plan was highly criticized by politicians and the public. Last week, the lower house approved a bill that terminates the project.
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08/13/2013
The head of the Social Democrats, Bohuslav Sobotka, has set for his party the goal of winning up to one-third of votes in early elections expected this autumn. Mr. Sobotka told news website iDnes that he hoped his party in Prague would clinch 25 percent. The party chairman will himself run in the South Moravia region, where he has won as party leader twice before. Polls have repeatedly shown the Social Democrats would win easily if elections were held today, while the right-of-centre Civic Democrats could face a major drop in numbers. The Civic Democrats’ speaker of the lower house, Miroslava Němcová, meanwhile, has suggested the elections should be delayed by a month, to prevent key legislation from being swept off the table.
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08/13/2013
The first public trial connected to the methanol poisoning tragedy last year began in Ostrava on Tuesday. The defendants, Petr Hlava and Marek Ženíšek, allegedly sold over 70 bottles of alcohol with false labels last October, most of which contained a lethal amount of methylalcohol. The police claim that the two men did so knowingly and could have caused hundreds of fatalities. In the end, one man died and six others were hospitalized and some will suffer long-term health problems as a result of ingesting the toxic drink. The man who died was the 31st victim of the so-called methanol affair, during which 47 people died as a result of drinking hard liqueur containing lethal amounts of methanol.
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08/13/2013
Police in the Indian state of Goa have extended the detention of a 19-year-old Czech man, who is suspected of brutally killing a 24-year-old Czech woman at a seaside resort, according to a report in The Times of India. The body of the young woman, who suffered multiple stab wounds and cuts, was found last Wednesday in the hotel room she shared with the suspect. The man was later found unconscious in the vicinity with a large knife next to him. The man denied any wrongdoing, though later the Indian press reported that he had confessed. India does not have an extradition agreement with the Czech Republic and if convicted, the man could face a life sentence, according to Indian law.
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