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05/23/2013
Czech arms producer Česká zbrojovka has won an international tender for the supply of 50,000 pistols to the Egyptian interior ministry, the company’s CEO Lubomír Kovařík told the CTK news agency on Thursday. The one-year contract is reportedly worth hundreds of millions of crowns. The CZ P-07 duty pistols commissioned are smaller than those supplied by Česká zbrojovka to the Czech military and security forces. The company is seeking to clinch a similar deal with Iraq. Česká zbrojovka is one of the country’s major arms producers, its annual sales having topped two billion crowns in recent years.
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05/23/2013
Some 200 young people staged a protest happening outside Prague Castle in defense of academic freedoms on Thursday in the wake of a scandal over the president’s refusal to name a respected Catholic intellectual professor. Although the President Zeman backed down on Wednesday, signing Mr. Putna’s decree, and saying he no longer wanted the prerogative to appoint professors, there is still simmering anger over the incident among students who feel that academic freedoms have been violated and fear they may be again at any time in the future. Meanwhile, rectors are not happy with the proposal that in future professorial decrees would be signed by the education minister, saying that the president’s signature gave the decree greater weight and reflected the high esteem associated with the title.
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05/23/2013
Gumball 3000 is due to sweep through the eastern part of the Czech Republic on Thursday evening passing through Ostrava, Olomouc, Brno and Mikulov, on its way to Austria. The first cars crossed the Czech-Polish border at around 5 pm and the last should leave Czech territory at around midnight. Police are out in force for the event saying that they are prepared to use the right to detain participants for up to 48 hours in case of serious violations of the road law.
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05/23/2013
An exhibition of Marilyn Monroe imagery and memorabilia to commemorate the sex-symbol of the 1950s will open at Prague Castle as planned despite the fact that some of the items were stolen during their transport to Prague, organizers said on Thursday. The theft of a truck carrying part of the memorabilia to be put on display made news headlines on Wednesday raising questions as to whether the exhibition would take place. The Armentano company and the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum which are loaning the artefacts said the lost items could be replaced in time. Among the artefacts to be put on display are film costumes, personal belongings, unpublished photographs and excerpts from the actress’s diary. The exhibition will open next Saturday and run until mid-September.
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05/23/2013
Viktoria Plzeň have pulled five points clear in the race for the Czech soccer championship with only two rounds remaining. The West Bohemian side gained the advantage when they beat Olomouc 1:0 away on Wednesday night and their closest rivals Sparta Prague lost 2:3 to Brno in the Moravian capital. Plzeň were crowned champions for the first time in their history two years ago.
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05/22/2013
The Czech president, Miloš Zeman, says he will sign a decree conferring the title of professor on Martin C. Putna. However, he will not hand it over in person but have the minister of education, Petr Fiala, present it to the literary historian. Mr. Zeman made the announcement after talks with Mr. Fiala on Wednesday. The head of state had sparked broad condemnation by saying he would not name Mr. Putna professor; at first he refused to say why, but he later said it was because of a provocative placard the academic had carried in a gay pride march. Mr. Zeman also says the power to appoint professors should be removed from the president.
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05/22/2013
Martin C. Putna told reporters on Wednesday that he accepted being presented with the decree by Minister Fiala and that he regarded the matter as closed. However, he said, receiving the document did not end the fight for freedom of academic expression. Mr. Putna said academics and activists would continue to be manipulated, obstructed and threatened, adding that similar or worse things would happen to people who were less well known than him. The literary historian also thanked all of those who had supported him since the dispute with Mr. Zeman began.
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05/22/2013
The head of the Orthodox Church, Patriarch Bartholomew I, begins a four-day visit to the Czech Republic on Wednesday evening. The patriarch is coming to the country in connection with celebrations marking the 1150th anniversary of the arrival in Moravia of the Orthodox missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius. Patriarch Bartholomew blessed a church in Šumperk in 1998 and returned to the Czech Republic the following year to attend Forum 2000 at the invitation of then president Václav Havel.
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05/22/2013
The Civic Democrats have said they will not give up any of their five seats on the Prague city council. The party are locked in a power struggle with TOP 09, who insist they should receive one of those seats and have seven seats to the Civic Democrats’ four. Moreover TOP 09, who came first in the last municipal election, say a candidate of theirs should replace the Civic Democrats’ Bohuslav Svoboda as mayor of the Czech capital. TOP 09 say the Civic Democrats have until later on Wednesday to accept a revised coalition agreement. However, the two sides said no breakthrough had been made during talks in the morning.
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05/22/2013
The funeral has taken place in Prague of Valtr Komárek, who was one of the leaders of the Velvet Revolution and briefly served as deputy leader of Czechoslovakia’s first post-Communist government. Speaking at a memorial service for the left-wing politician and economist, who died last week at the age of 82, President Miloš Zeman said no party should abuse his name in order to promote themselves. Mr. Zeman said that while Mr. Komárek had been honorary chair of the Social Democrats, he had maintained his own views. The president was himself head of the Social Democrats and has mixed relations with its leaders today.
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