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05/27/2020
Forward David Pastrňák from the Boston Bruins finished top in the goal scoring rankings in this year’s season of the NHL. Pastrňák shares the top spot with Alexander Ovechkin from the Washington capitals. Both players scored 48 goals. Pastrňák in 70 games, Ovechkin in just 68.
The play-off round will now decide which of the 24 teams that progressed into the next stage will win this year’s Stanley Cup.
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05/27/2020
Several dozen people gathered in Prague’s Libeň neighbourhood this Wednesday, commemorating Czechoslovak paratroopers Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík who assassinated Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich in this part of the capital 78 years ago.
The commemoration was started by the playing of Scotland the Brave, a reminder that the paratroopers undertook their training in Scotland before being sent back to Czechoslovakia to carry out their mission.
Gabčík, Kubiš and five other paratroopers would die three weeks later after they were discovered the Germans while they were hiding in the Church of St. Cyril and Methodius. The assasination also led to a severe crackdown on the wider protectorate population.
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05/27/2020
The Deputy Chairman of the Christian Democratic Party, Jan Bartošek, tweeted on Wednesday that he is planning to propose amendment to criminal law which would allow the prosecution of individuals spreading Nazi symbols or related propaganda material. The amendment would make such an act an offence punishable by up to three years in jail, or through a fine.
The initiative comes after it was found earlier this week that a Czech publisher was selling a calendar featuring the faces of leading men of the Third Reich.
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05/27/2020
Czech scientists from the National Institute of Mental Health will take part in a study exploring the mental and physical effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. In total 100,000 anonymous individuals, including medical personnel, from 110 countries across the world will be examined, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Researchers are hoping that the findings will help better prepare for future pandemics.
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05/27/2020
From Wednesday it is possible for people from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary to travel freely between the three states without a negative Covid-19 test or needing to go into quarantine, provided that they return to their own country within 48 hours. The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Tomáš Petříček, has described this as a half-step toward the full opening of the frontiers between the states.
Mr. Petříček said his country’s citizens could receive confirmation of their time of entry onto Slovak territory; they could then use this to prove their return to the Czech Republic was within 48 hours.
The Czech foreign policy chief has discussed a similar system with Austria but it is as yet cool on the idea.
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05/26/2020
The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Tomáš Petříček, has reassured the Israeli ambassador to Prague, Daniel Meron, of the Prague government’s interest in further developing relations between the Czech Republic and Israel. The move follows a newspaper article by Mr. Petříček and two of his predecessors, Lubomír Zaorálek and Karel Schwarzenberg, opposing Israeli plans to annex Jewish settlements on the West Bank.
Mr. Petříček said on Tuesday that he had explained to Mr. Meron that the article stemmed from a long-term position based on respect for international law.
President Miloš Zeman and Prime Minister Andrej Babiš criticised the article, with the latter saying it was unacceptable for individual cabinet members to make statements on such an important foreign policy issue.
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05/26/2020
Work to build a replica of a valuable wooden church that burned down in the Guty district of Třinec in the Moravian Silesian Region began on Tuesday. It should be completed by next spring, with the first mass set to take place there on 23 May 2021.
The original 16th century church was burned down by three youths in 2017. They received jail terms of three and a half, eight and nine years respectively.
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05/26/2020
From Wednesday it will be possible for Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians to travel freely between the three states without a negative Covid-19 test, provided they return to their country within 48 hours. The news was announced by Czech minister of foreign affairs, Tomáš Petříček, on Tuesday.
Mr. Petříček said he had also been in touch with his Austrian counterpart to discuss a similar relaxation on the Czech-Austrian frontier.
The new regime at the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia was agreed between the two countries’ prime ministers, Andrej Babiš and Igor Matovič, on Monday.
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05/26/2020
The owner of a Czech online retailer selling 2021 calendars featuring “Personalities of the Third Reich” says Naše vojsko is not promoting Nazism and is only seeking profit, iRozhlas.cz reported on Tuesday. The Israeli and German ambassadors to the Czech Republic have criticised the sale of the product, which features pictures of Hitler and other senior Nazis.
The minster of the interior, Jan Hamáečk, says the sale of the calendar is tasteless and immoral. However, agencies in the criminal justice system have repeatedly reached the conclusion that it is not a criminal offence, he said.
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05/26/2020
The Czech government is going to take a legal action against the European Commission over its blocking of subsidies of CZK 1.6 billion for a project by the company Agrofert. The money is being withheld after a Commission audit said that Agrofert’s founder, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, still controlled the firm so is in conflict of interest.
A representative said on Monday that the Czech government had decided in February to contest the decision in Brussels. It has since withdrawn that lawsuit and will replace it with a new one.
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