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01/17/2009
The Czech Republic will begin sending natural gas to Slovakia at 8 am on Sunday morning, a spokesperson for the biggest Czech distributor RWE Transgas said on Saturday. Slovakia is completely dependent on gas from Russia and has received no supplies for 11 days. Gas has never previously crossed the Czech-Slovak border from west to east. Reductions in gas supply to some large industrial plants in Slovakia will come to an end on Monday, said a representative of the Slovak Ministry of the Economy.
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01/17/2009
Meanwhile, the Czech industry and trade minister, Martin Říman, said the gas supply crisis had caused irreparable and irreversible damage and a loss of confidence in both Russia and Ukraine; the two states’ disputes over payment and prices have left hundreds of thousands of people in Europe without heating.
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01/17/2009
At least 20 people, most of them homeless, have died in the Czech Republic because of cold weather this winter, the Czech News Agency reported. It said, however, that establishing exact figures was difficult as the police do not keep a record of those who die of hypothermia. The latest victims were a man of 57 who was found frozen to death on a flattened cardboard box in Prague on Friday and a man of 52 who met a similar death in Kopřivnice in north Moravia on Saturday.
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01/17/2009
Sixty-five percent of Czechs are opposed to the building of a US radar base in central Bohemia, suggests a poll carried out by the CVVM agency in December; its findings are consistent with a number of previous surveys. Nearly 8 in 10 of respondents in the new poll said they expected the Czech Parliament to approve the American radar base, which would be linked to a missile base in Poland and be part of a global missile defence shield. The Czech Senate has already approved the project, while the Chamber of Deputies is expected to vote on it in the coming months.
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01/17/2009
The Workers’ Party say they will reform under another name if the Supreme Administrative Court agrees to a government proposal to ban the small far-right grouping. Chairman Tomáš Vandas said its members would form a new organisation within a fortnight if the Workers’ Party is banned. The government says the group threatens the democratic foundations of the state and is close to ultra-nationalist organisations such as National Resistance. The Workers’ Party made headlines in November when hundreds of its members clashed with police who prevented them entering a largely Romany area of Litvínov in north Bohemia. They have announced plans for what they call a monitoring mission there next weekend.
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01/17/2009
A woman in Karvina, north Moravia died on Saturday when she was hit by a tree felled by her husband. The woman, who was 30, died instantly when the falling tree hit her head. Police are investigating the incident.
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01/17/2009
The newest trams in use in Prague will be removed from some routes in the coming weeks. The poor condition of some tram lines in the Czech capital is being made worse by the heavy 14 T trams, say city officials. However, the company which produces the trams, Škoda Transportation in Plzeň, rejects the suggestion that its vehicles are harming tracks, saying that had not been proven.
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01/16/2009
Friday marks the 40th anniversary of the self-immolation of Jan Palach, a student who took his life in protest against the Czech public’s apathy following the Soviet-led invasion of 1968. Palach’s suicide turned him overnight into a symbol of national resistance. Several events have taken place to commemorate Palach’s death, including a special mass followed by a procession to Charles University’s Philosophical Faculty, where he was a student. There was also a gathering outside the National Museum on Wenceslas Square, at the spot where Jan Palach set himself alight on January 16 1969.
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01/16/2009
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has reportedly told his Slovak counterpart, Robert Fico, that the Czech Republic is prepared to offer its eastern neighbour alternative gas supplies in the future. The comments were made following talks between the two men centred on resolving the prolonged gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine, which has seen a suspension of Russian gas supplies to Europe. The Czech Republic is less affected because of a decision made in the 1990s to source gas from Norway via a northern pipeline, but Slovakia has been hit hard by the stoppage. The burgeoning agreement would see the Czech Republic using this northern pipeline to send gas to Slovakia, although the details have yet to be ironed out, and approval sought from the German and French companies that run the pipeline.
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01/16/2009
The Social Democrats are to recommend the removal of a procedural block which prevented a vote on the renewal of a law enabling Czech military forces from operating overseas. Czech forces in Afghanistan and Iraq have been operating under a provisional two month extension ever since a formal extension was blocked by the opposition Social Democrats at the end of last year. Should the mission not be renewed, Czech forces would be obliged to return to the Czech Republic beginning March 1st. However, the Social Democrats have also signalled that this move is contingent on the government abolishing controversial doctor’s visitation fees. Talks are scheduled for early next week.
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