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08/05/2010
The results of a new survey conducted by GfK Praha and the Median polling agency have indicated that the tabloid Blesk remains the top-read daily in the country, followed by the newspaper Mladá fronta Dnes. The survey questioned more than 12,000 respondents. According to the results, the Blesk average rose by 50,000 to 1.42 million readers daily in the first half of 2010, while Mladá fronta registered a loss of 18,000 readers, with an average of around 874,000 during the same period. The left-wing paper Právo was the third-most read publication, followed by Deník Sport. Readership numbers include those who read on the internet, meaning the numbers do not reflect actual copies sold.
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08/05/2010
Increased rainfall over the last several days has risen water levels on a number of rivers, making canoeing or rafting ideal in areas, but also reason for caution in others. The head of the Czech Canoe Association Vojtěch Jančar has told CTK that canoeists were recommended to proceed with care at sluices, such as one near the south Bohemian town of Bechyně on the Lužnice, where water is flowing at 60 cubic metres per second. He also pointed to a section of whitewater near Tábor requiring more experience and skill. The Sázava river has also seen an increase in water levels.
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08/05/2010
Representatives of the Czech Sports Association say it is not planning on the demolition of Prague’s Strahov stadium and consequent sale of the property grounds. At a press conference in Prague on Thursday, officials pointed out that such a scenario was only one of several on how to gain additional funds in the future for sport. The financial daily Hospodářské noviny was the first to report the initial story. Sports Association officials said that the sale of the property, which was used by the Communist regime for spectacular calisthenics displays known as the Spartakiádia (in which hundreds of thousands of gymnasts took part) was not the order of the day. Currently, the stadium is used as a training ground for football club Sparta Prague.
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08/05/2010
Sparta Prague have reached the final qualification round for football’s lucrative Champions League. The Czech title-holders beat the Polish side Lech Poznan 1:0 away in the second leg on Wednesday, giving them a 2:0 win on aggregate. Marek Matejovsky and Libor Sionko were sent off during that game, meaning they will miss the next round, as will Bony Wilfried, who picked up a second yellow card. If Sparta fail to make it to the Champions League, they will automatically enter the continent’s second-tier international club competition, the Europa League.
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08/05/2010
Football defender for Sparta Prague Tomáš Řepka, has been given a three-match ban in the Czech domestic league. A disciplinary commission ruling on an incident in which the player spat on Slovacko’s Ladislav Volešak, also said Řepka would not be allowed to captain his side until next year. The defender has already missed one of his matches, against České Budějovice, and will not play in Sparta’s match-up against Ostrava or Příbram. Řepka, who is known for having a short fuse, has expressed regret over his actions.
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08/05/2010
Top seed Tomáš Berdych won his first match since losing the Wimbledon final to Rafael Nadal at the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington. The Czech player earned a 7-6 (7-2), 4-6, 6-1 win over Dmitry Tursunov in two hours and 17 minutes, back in action since reaching his first grand slam final last month. Berdych will next face Andrey Golubev, the 16th seed. By contrast, Czech player Radek Štepánek, returning to the ATP Tour after a five-month lay-off due to health reasons, lost in two sets to Swiss player Mark Chiudinelli winning only win only four games in the second round match. The score was 1:6, 3:6.
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08/04/2010
The government presented its policy statement at a session in Prague on Wednesday. The statement, stemming from the government’s coalition agreement, will be put to the vote before being submitted to Parliament next week. It outlines five key priorities, such as lowering the state budget deficit, reforming the health and pension systems, some changes in the education system and curbing corruption in the public sector. Prime Minister Petr Nečas’ center-right government will ask Parliament for a vote of confidence on August 10th.
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08/04/2010
Hundreds of people attended the funeral of Milan Paumer, a member of a controversial group who shot their way across the Iron Curtain in the 1950s. The funeral ceremony, held in the town of Poděbrady, was attended by some of the country’s leading politicians, cultural figures and anti-communist fighters. Among those present was Prime Minister Petr Nečas, who said in a speech that Milan Paumer’s decision to stand up against oppression was heroic. Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, Defense Minister Alexander Vondra and the heads of both houses of Parliament were also in attendance.
Mr Paumer remains a controversial figure in the Czech Republic, where some people see him as a hero for fighting the Communists at a time when there was little resistance to the regime. Others condemn him for escaping at the cost of several human lives.
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08/04/2010
The city of Prague and the town of Moravský Krumlov have not been able to reach an agreement regarding the move of Czech art-deco painter Alphonse Mucha’s Slav Epic from Moravský Krumlov to the Czech capital. The city of Prague is now going to file an appeal against last week’s court decision that barred anybody from handling the twenty-canvass masterpiece until a controversy over ownership rights had been cleared. The two city halls have been at odds over the fate of the precious Slav Epic after Prague city hall attempted to get it moved to the city’s Veletržní Palác art gallery. It has been housed in the Moravský Krumlov castle for over half a century, partly because a designated home for the painting in Prague was never built, which was one of Mucha’s conditions when he donated the Slav Epic to the city in 1913.
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08/04/2010
The Office for the Protection of Competition in June received a second anonymous tip-off to investigate the Czech army’s purchase of Spanish-made transport planes of the CASA type, the website euro.cz reported on Wednesday. According to the tip-off, the ministry bought those planes without announcing a bid for a proper public tender, thus breaking the law of economic competition. The tip-off was also given to the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior and Transparency International.
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