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08/21/2010
There were nearly 1,400 recorded cases of people being attacked by animals in the Czech Republic last year, according to figures just released by the Institute of Health Information and Statistics. Around three quarters of the cases involved dogs biting people. There were no fatalities, though 11 deaths have been caused by dog bites in the Czech Republic since the year 2000. A quarter of the victims of animal attacks ended up in hospital; a similar percentage were children.
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08/21/2010
The third annual Dvořák Prague Festival got underway in Prague on Friday with a performance of the composer’s New World Symphony by the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the city’s Rudolfinum. The festival, which runs for two weeks, features 16 concerts, most of them at the same venue’s Dvořák Hall. All in all, 12 pieces by Antonín Dvořák are being performed; the programme also includes work by other composers.
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08/21/2010
The Welsh group Manic Street Preachers performed to thousands of fans at one of the Czech Republic’s biggest rock music events, the Open Air Music Festival in the east Bohemian town of Trutnov, on Friday night. Other performers included The Glitter Band and the Czech artists DG 307 and Michal Hrůza. The Trutnov festival first took place in 1987, two years before the fall of the communist regime. This year over 100 groups and solo musicians are performing on four stages over four nights.
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08/20/2010
Senior Czech and Polish officials on Friday unveiled a monument in Prague honouring a Pole who died in 1968 after setting himself on fire to protest the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. The monument commemorates Ryszard Siwiec, who set himself alight on September 8, 1968 in a packed stadium in the Polish capital Warsaw, where a crowd of 100,000 including senior communist leaders were attending a festival. Poland's communist regime took part in the invasion, sparking the desperate step by Siwiec, a veteran of the non-communist World War II resistance. The father of five died of burns on September 12, 1968.
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08/20/2010
MPs will no longer be paid for being on the supervisory boards of state run companies and institutions, Prime Minister Petr Nečas told Friday’s Hospodářské noviny. Mr. Nečas told the newspaper he planned to put a stop to the practice since it went against the conflict of interest law. In recent years deputies on supervisory boards made hundreds of thousands of crowns monthly on the side, arguing that the institution in question was a public rather than state institution, or that it was not a company but a fund. The prime minister said he had no intention of tolerating the practice in future.
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08/20/2010
The head of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, Ivan Hodač, is a hot candidate for the newly-established post of state secretary for EU affairs, the daily Lidové Noviny wrote in its Friday edition. Although the prime minister has not officially confirmed the choice, the paper says the Civic Democrat’s coalition partners, TOP O9 and Public Affairs, were consulted about his candidacy. The state secretary for EU affairs is to be answerable directly to the prime minister and the post will be filled by a Civic Democrat appointee.
Mr Hodač, who is 64, emigrated to Denmark after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. He graduated from Copenhagen University, majoring in economics and political sciences. He speaks seven foreign languages.
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08/20/2010
The former director of the National Technical Museum, Horymír Kubíček, who was sacked by the culture minister on Thursday, is suspected of enriching himself at the museum’s expense. The daily Mladá fronta Dnes said the former general director increased his salary several-fold by giving himself undeserved monthly and annual bonuses. The paper wrote that the official was making as much as the country’s president. There are also claims that several exhibits from the museum have gone missing. The culture minister, Jiří Besser, has sent in independent auditors.
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08/20/2010
Cost-cutting measures in the public sector are also likely to affect priests and church employees. The Labour and Social Affairs Ministry has proposed cutting their monthly salaries by 10 percent, which would save the state budget 90 million crowns annually. The move would affect close to 5,000 priests, who stand to lose approximately 1,500 crowns a month. The average salary of a priest is just over 13,000 crowns a month; the lowest is 9, 600 crowns.
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08/20/2010
Pruhonice park, located on the outskirts of Prague, is to be included in the UNESCO-protected Prague town reserve, according to a decision made at a recent meeting of the UNESCO commission in Brazil. The Czech Culture Ministry and the park’s management have welcomed the news saying it would help protect and improve on one of Europe’s largest landscape parks. Pruhonice, which covers more than 200 hectares, has a valuable collection of plants from all over the world.
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08/20/2010
One hundred and sixteen soldiers of the occupying armies of the Warsaw Pact died on Czechoslovak territory during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia launched on August 21st, the daily Hospodarské Noviny writes on the eve of the anniversary. The paper says that the vast majority died in traffic accidents or by mishandling their weapon in a skirmish. Only one was killed by a local protesting against the invasion. Historians estimate that over 100 Czechs and Slovaks were killed in the first days and weeks of the Soviet-led invasion.
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