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06/13/2010
A 39-year old woman was killed by a falling tree near the town of Blansko in southern Moravia, where heavy thunderstorms hit on Saturday. Falling trees damaged roads, railroad tracks, cars and houses. Firefighters in the southern Moravia region were called out on some 80 missions in the course of Saturday night. Some roads and railroad routes are still blocked due to damages. In other parts of Moravia, the storms lead to power outages and flooded cellars and garages. Some 15,000 households near the Moravian town of Třebič were still without electricity on Sunday morning.
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06/13/2010
A new theater festival in Brno will be presenting the entire dramatic oeuvre of former president Václav Havel, including some little known plays and fragments. Mr Havel himself said that the project was ambitious and that he felt honored to be welcomed back by the theater world after taking a twenty-year break. The festival will be ongoing until June 19. Mr Havel is only able to attend three days of the festival since the filming of a screen version of Leaving, his newest play, is to start soon.
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06/13/2010
On Saturday evening, a woman gave birth to a healthy baby-daughter in her car near the Moravian town of Břeclav before an ambulance could arrive. A passerby helped the woman, who started giving birth earlier than expected. The woman’s 11-year-old son called an ambulance, which brought her and the baby to a hospital in the city of Brno. The region’s emergency medical services saw a record number of 250 cases on Saturday, due to a heat wave followed by heavy thunderstorms.
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06/13/2010
Firefighters found a dead body in the trunk of a car that caught fire and burned out late on Saturday night. So far, the sex of the dead body could not be determined. Criminal police said that most likely, the car was burned to cover up a case of murder. Investigations continue.
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06/12/2010
The most likely next prime minister, Petr Nečas, has announced his six picks for senior offices in the Civic Democrats party. The announcement comes days before the Civic Democrats’ party congress, to be held on June 19 and 20, when a new party leadership will be elected. Among the candidates for offices such as deputy party leader are former foreign minister Alexandr Vondra and former deputy chairwoman of the lower house, Miroslava Němcová. Mr Nečas himself is applying for the position of party leader. He said that the Civic Democrats were aware of the signal for change that voters had given his party at the recent lower house elections and that this would also translate into personnel changes.
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06/12/2010
A committee of experts from all three parties in the process of forming a government coalition has suggested that budget cuts of ten percent in welfare and social allowances be implemented. The committee will now hand over its recommendation to the negotiating teams of the possible coalition’s parties, the Civic Democrats, TOP 09 and Public Affairs. Political analysts believe that such cuts may well become a part of the future government’s coalition program.
The three parties are yet to reach agreement on the last remaining issue of coalition negotiations, tax increases. While the Civic Democrats oppose implementing higher taxes, Public Affairs would like to raise income tax for the country’s highest earners.
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06/12/2010
Hundreds of people gathered at a mass grave in the Central Bohemian village of Lidice on Saturday to commemorate the victims of a massacre that took place in 1942. In a speech, the head of the Senate, Přemysl Sobotka, warned that neo-Nazism was a growing threat to Czech society. He added that it was time to learn from the past. The commemoration ceremony continued in front of the village’s museum with a performance by Czech singer Lucie Bílá. Some six-hundred children from child choirs across the country gave concerts as well.
Following the assassination of the German governor of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis razed the village to the ground on June 10, 1942, and executed 340 of Lidice’s 503 inhabitants.
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06/12/2010
The Senate has once again added the Masin brothers, who escaped to the West from Czechoslovakia in 1953, to its list of personalities to be taken into consideration by Czech president Václav Klaus for the country’s highest honor, the Order of the White Lion. Among this year’s 21 candidates for the honor are television director František Filip and World War II pilot Josef Bernat. The Masin brothers have been nominated for the Order of the White Lion five times but have never actually received it.
Critics of the group around the Masin brothers, one of the few to resist the Communists, committing acts of sabotage, consider the two brothers murderers. In the course of their dramatic escape, they shot a policeman. The group also killed a wages clerk and two StB secret police officers during earlier robberies of arms stores.
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06/12/2010
The former general director of the Siemens group’s Czech branch, Pavel Kafka, worked as an agent for the communist secret police (StB) in the past. In its Saturday edition, the Czech daily Lidové noviný reported that Mr Kafka, who is currently a member of the country’s Research and Development council, was given the task of spying on students and journalists. Mr Kafka joined the Communist Party when he was 18 years old. After working for the Foreign Ministry in the Czech Republic, he was sent to work as a press attaché at Czech embassies in Japan and Greece. After the Velvet Revolution, Mr Kafka started working for the German engineering conglomerate Siemens. He was appointed to the Czech Research and Development council by Prime Minister Jan Fischer last year.
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06/12/2010
On Saturday, the majority of Prague’s museums will stay open past midnight as part of the city’s annual museum night, now in its sixth year. Most of the 53 participating institutions will be open to visitors from 7 p.m. free of charge. Special concerts, theater performances and lectures will be part of the program. The capital’s transport authority has extended its metro services until 1:30 am to accommodate visitors of museum night; special busses will also be in effect. Last year, some 180,000 visitors attended the event.
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