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05/13/2020
The Czcech Film Fund has designated CZK 92 million to be handed out to representatives of the country’s film industry, who are struggling from the financial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government countermeasures, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday, citing the fund’s spokesman Jiří Vaněk.
Applications for financial support open on Wednesday.
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05/13/2020
Police in the Czech Republic are investigating alleged threats against a diplomat at Prague’s Russian Embassy, the minister of foreign affairs, Tomáš Petříček, told Czech Television. Mr. Petříček said his officials had handed the matter over to the police after being contacted by the embassy.
The Russian Embassy said on Facebook on Monday that a member of its staff had received threats. It said this had come in response to false accusations of a planned Russian attack on Prague politicians.
Three officials in the city received police protection following reports that they could be in danger over moves that angered Moscow.
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05/13/2020
The Czech minister of finance, Alena Schillerová, says she expects a state budget deficit of around CZK 300 billion next year, Czech Television reported. A budget deficit of that size is already planned for 2020. A budget deficit of CZK 40 billion had originally envisaged for this year but that figure was revised in view of the coronavirus crisis.
Ms. Schillerová said the government had rubberstamped an amendment under which the Ministry of Finance would present the draft budget for 2021 to the cabinet at the end of September and to MPs toward the end of October. This is a month later than usual.
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05/12/2020
The top two tiers of the Czech soccer league are set to resume following a gap caused by the coronavirus situation, the League Football Association decided at a meeting of club representatives in Prague on Tuesday. The first division will get underway again on May 23 with a game between Teplice and Liberec.
Clubs have agreed to extend the current season beyond June 30, when the season usually ends. Matches will take place without spectators. Top level games were halted in mid-March.
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05/12/2020
The minister of health, Adam Vojtěch, has rejected a suggestion put forward by his deputy that Czechs should only be in contact with three families so as to avoid contracting Covid-19. Speaking on Tuesday, Mr. Vojtěch said Deputy Minister Roman Prymula’s idea was unrealistic, adding that life was more colourful than that.
Mr. Prymula said in an interview that it would be better if Czechs lived in small communities.
As of Tuesday afternoon, 283 people had died with coronavirus in the Czech Republic. To date 8,177 cases have been detected.
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05/12/2020
Church bells rang out around the Czech Republic at noon on Tuesday as a tribute to the country’s medical personnel, who are currently in the frontline of the struggle against the coronavirus epidemic. The gesture was particularly aimed at nurses, who are marking International Nurses Day.
There are around 80,000 nurses and 50,000 doctors and dentists in the Czech Republic.
Some 343 nurses in this country had been infected with Covid-19 by the end of April, as had 167 doctors, including dentists.
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05/12/2020
Temperatures in the Czech Republic fell by up to 20 degrees Celsius on Monday night. The lowest temperature recorded was at Luční bouda in the Krkonoše Mountains, where it was -7 degrees Celsius. There was snow in some places.
Earlier storms had knocked down trees and caused flooding in cellars in some parts of the country. A coronavirus testing tent was blown over in Česká Lípa.
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05/12/2020
The landmark 75th edition of the Prague Spring International Music Festival gets underway on Tuesday evening, though it will take an unusual form due to the coronavirus situation. Instead of Smetana’s My Country performed at the Municipal House, it will begin with an online concert featuring a host of musicians congratulating the event on its 75th anniversary.
During the 2020 Prague Spring 11 live concerts – with no audiences in attendance – will be streamed from five venues in Prague and one in Brno.
Among the ensembles taking part are the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonia and the Czech Philharmonic.
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05/12/2020
It should be mainly overcast in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, with daytime highs of up to 11 degrees Celsius. Cloudy skies are then expected to continue, with temperatures climbing to the mid-teens Celsius at the weekend.
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05/12/2020
Vratislav Brabenec of rock band the Plastic People of the Universe gave evidence in court on Tuesday against officers of the Communist-era secret police accused of forcing dissidents to leave Czechoslovakia. Mr. Brabenec said he had emigrated after the StB had threatened to kidnap his infant daughter or shoot his dog and subjected him to regular searches and interrogations.
A group of ex-dissidents have taken a case against five then StB officers accused of taking part in Operation Clearance in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It used systematic harassment to leave individuals the regime considered inconvenient with no alternative but to emigrate.
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