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10/22/2019
The French writer Pierre Michon is due to receive the Franz Kafka Prize in Prague on Tuesday. He becomes the 19th recipient of the international award, which is presented by the Franz Kafka Society. Previous winners include Philip Roth Margaret Atwood, Václav Havel and Haruki Murakami.
Michon’s 1984 novel Small Lives is considered a masterpiece of modern French literature and he has won a number of prizes for it and other works.
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10/22/2019
Two out of five Czech households include dogs, suggests a survey by the STEM/MARK agency released on Tuesday. Forty percent of Czech owners allow their dog into their bed. Of those that do have a dog, only one in five possess more than one, the study found.
Mid-sized dogs, weighing between six and 24 kilogrammes, are the most popular.
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10/22/2019
President Miloš Zeman is set to hand out a total of 43 honours for services to the state during the annual celebration of Czech Statehood on October 28 at Prague Castle, a record high number during his presidency so far, the daily Lidové Noviny reported on Tuesday.
Among those to be honoured are former president Václav Klaus and World War Two veteran Emil Boček. Both men are set to receive the highest possible honour, the Order of the White Lion First Class. Other honours recipients include ice hockey superstar Jaromír Jágr, Škoda Favorit designer Petr Hrdlička or soldier Tomáš Procházka, who died last year while serving with the Czech military contingent in Afghanistan.
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10/22/2019
Some 24 percent of Czechs over the age of 40 do not know when the Velvet Revolution began and more than a half of those with basic or aprentice level education say they were better off under communism. This according to a survey conducted by the history focused non-profit Post Bellum and market researcher NMS, released on Tuesday. According to the survey results, the higher the education level among respondents the more likely i tis they see the Communist era in a more positive light. Meanwhile, those under the age of 40 are slightly more likely to celebrate this year’s anniversary.
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10/21/2019
Scrutiny regarding the handling of funds by the country’s two public broadcasters – Czech Television and Czech Radio – should be handled by the politically independent Supreme Audit Office instead of Parliament, according to a proposal submitted in the lower house by four Social Democrat members of the Chamber of Deputies.
The proposal was made amid an ongoing dispute in the lower-house, where the Communists and the Freedom and Direct Democracy party are blocking approval of Czech Television’s annual budgets.
Czech Television stated via its social media that its management is already subject to a multi-level audit and that it would not be opposed to scrutiny from the Supreme Audit Office.
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10/21/2019
The Russian Embassy in Prague has denied that the information provided earlier on Monday by Czech civilian counterintelligence (BIS) Director Michal Koudelka, who said that Czech security organs had uncovered and broken up an FSB intelligence operation in the country, is in any part true.
The intelligence chief described the embassy as one of the sources of funding for a Russian operation in the country, which used a web of servers to attack targets in the Czech Republic and its allies.
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10/21/2019
Councillors at Prague City Hall have decided to cancel the memorandum of understanding with Lime, the company which has been renting electric scooters across the capital since last autumn. According to City Hall the move is only a signal to Lime that it is not happy with the company’s approach towards fulfilling its commitments and not a ban on its Prague activities.
Lime bikes, which are often simply left in the middle of the pavement after being used, have been described by many locals as an inconvenience since their introduction and City Hall referred to the company’s inability to prevent parked scooters from interfering with pedestrians as one of the ways in which it has breached the memorandum.
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10/21/2019
The amount of registered groundwater increased in September compared to measurements conducted last year, reaching normal levels in a quarter of the country, the Czech News Agency reported on Monday citing the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute. Meteorologists say that more water has been entering underground waterways due to an increase in rainfall and lower temperatures which has made soil more capable of absorbing water.
The Czech Republic has faced severe droughts in recent years and, although the situation is better than it was in 2018, meteorologists still measured below normal levels of groundwater around the Labe and Vltava rivers.
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10/21/2019
The Office for Economic Supervision of Political Parties and Political Movements has found 17 cases of misconduct while reviewing the Freedom and Direct Democracy Party’s 2017 election campaign. Examples include late transactions of unused funds from the party’s election account and not disclosing necessary details on all candidates who financially contributed to the campaign.
The office will now consider its next steps, spokeswoman Linda Hrubešová told the Czech News on Monday. It may choose to initiate administrative proceedings or issue a fine order. The latter could amount to hundreds of thousands of crowns.
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10/21/2019
Temperatures are expected to hover around 16 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, with heavy clouds in the southern and western parts of the country. Northern Moravia and Silesia are likely to see open, sunny skies and temperatures closer to 20 degrees.
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