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05/25/2024
The Czech state would like to take over ownership of what is known as the Red Tower of Death near Ostrov, West Bohemia. The national cultural monument commemorates the suffering of political prisoners forced to work in uranium mines in Jáchymov in the 1950s.
The minister of culture, Martin Baxa, made a comment to that effect at the 35th annual event named Jáchymov Hell gathering on Saturday.
The seven-storey tower was used as a uranium ore sorting plant at one of Jáchymov’s communist labour camps, with work at the plant considered the most dangerous occupation for prisoners.
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05/25/2024
Survivors and relatives of those killed in a mass shooting at a Prague university in December are set be informed next month about the conclusions of an investigation into the circumstances of the incident, Novinky.cz reported on Saturday. Once those closely affected have seen a report into the shooting, which left 14 dead and 25 injured at Charles University’s Faculty of Arts, it will be made available to the general public, the head of the Prague police told the news site.
It was the worst mass shooting in the modern history of Czechia. The perpetrator, a student at the faculty, took his own life before he could be apprehended.
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05/25/2024
A Children’s Day was held at the Royal Garden and Deer Moat at Prague Castle on Saturday. The attractions include dfolk craft demonstrations, theatre shows, performances by swordsmen and jugglers, and games and competitions prepared by children’s non-profit organisations.
It was the second year that the Prague Castle Administration, in cooperation with the Czech Council for Children and Youth, organised the event under the auspices of the Czech First Lady, Eva Pavlová.
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05/25/2024
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Sunday, with an average high temperature of 21 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to see similar, if slightly warmer, weather.
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05/25/2024
MP Tomio Okamura of Freedom and Direct Democracy is facing disciplinary proceedings in the Czech lower house after calling deputy speaker Jan Bartošek of the Christian Democrats a “modern-day Hitler” in a session debating postal voting. Mr. Bartošek said on social media that he had proposed proceedings against Mr. Okamura at the Chamber of Deputies’ Mandate and Immunity Committee over the comment.
The chair of the committee, Helena Válková of ANO, said it would deal with the complaint on Tuesday.
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05/24/2024
President Petr Pavel will be travelling to Jordan next week for an official visit to meet with the head of state King Abdullah II, with whom he plans to discuss the current situation in the Middle East as well as cooperation in the areas of healthcare, defence, energy and science. Also on the agenda are meetings with Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh, President of the Senate Faisal Al-Fayez, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Safadi.
The president will be accompanied on his trip by a Czech academic and business delegation focussed on the healthcare and defence industries. He plans to bring baby milk powder with him to be distributed as humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza by the Jordanian Air Force and to visit two hospitals in Jordan where Czechs have either volunteered as doctors or donated equipment.
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05/24/2024
Saturday is expected to be overcast and rainy for most of the day, with a possibility of sunshine and showers in the afternoon. Daytime temperatures should range between 16 and 21 degrees Celsius.
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05/24/2024
The head of the Czech Tennis Federation, Ivo Kaderka, was released from custody on Friday, the Czech News Agency reports. The president of the Czech Tennis Federation had been remanded for three months in Pankrác prison at the request of the public prosecutor to prevent him from influencing witnesses.
Mr. Kaderka faces up to 10 years in prison on charges of subsidy fraud and manipulating public tenders. He denies any wrongdoing.
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05/24/2024
Actor and director Jan Kačer passed away on Friday morning at the age of 87, his daughter Adéla Kubačáková told Czech media.
Kačer was an icon of the Czechoslovak New Wave film movement of the 1960s, starring as religious fanatic and Crusader knight Armin von Heide in the 1968 film The Valley of the Bees and as secret agent W4C aka Cyril Juan in Václav Vorlíček's 1967 James Bond parody The End of Agent W4C.
He performed in dozens of other movies and TV series, directed theatre plays, wrote several books and was also active in politics in the 1990s and 2000s. In 2016 he was awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk for services to democracy, humanity and human rights.
He was married to fellow actor Nina Divíšková, who died in 2021, for almost 60 years. The couple raised three daughters together.
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05/24/2024
An International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) tribunal has ruled that the Russian majority state-owned energy company Gazprom cannot continue legal proceedings against the Czech energy group ČEZ in Russia, ČEZ said in a statement late on Thursday.
ČEZ initiated legal proceedings against Gazprom in February 2023, seeking compensation of around 1 billion crowns ($44 million), due to the Russian supplier delivering less gas in 2022 than it had been contracted to. The gas deal was complicated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the anti-Russian sanctions the EU adopted in response. Gazprom then placed the dispute at a Russian court this year, but the ICC tribunal has now ruled that the dispute between the companies must be resolved exclusively by international arbitration, not in Russian courts.
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