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05/12/2024
A Holocaust Memorial for Roma and Sinti opened to the public on Sunday at the site of a former concentration camp in Lety, south Bohemia, with a commemorative ceremony.
Over 1,300 Roma passed through the camp between 1942 and 1943 and more than 300 died there, mostly women and children. Over 500 inmates were sent to extermination camps.
The memorial includes a place of remembrance and a visitor centre with a permanent exhibition that presents testimonies of witnesses in audiovisual form.
The site originally served as a pig farm and it took close to three decades for post-communist governments to buy out the property and erect a dignified memorial in its place.
Among those attending the comemorative event. on Sunday was Senate speaker Miloš Vystrčil, who stressed the importance of creating values for the future.
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05/12/2024
The 79th edition of the Prague Spring International Music Festival was launched on Sunday with a commemoration ceremony at the grave of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana at Prague’s Vyšehrad cemetary.
The festival, which will celebrate the Year of Czech Music, will offer dozens of concerts by symphony orchestras and other ensembles, including La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra of the Milan Opera and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France.
The opening concert, Smetana’s My Country, will be performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Kirill Petrenko. It will be screened live to the public at Prague’s Kampa park.
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05/12/2024
Czechs also won their second game at the Ice Hockey World Championship, coming up from two goals deficit to beat Norway 6-3 in Prague on Saturday. Two goals were scored by captain Roman Červenka, who played his 200th national team game.
The 38-year-old Červenka opened the scoring in the seventh minute, but Norway tied the game after 31 seconds and quickly took a 3-1 lead. By the break, Červenka managed to reduce the deficit. Ondřej Beránek equalised in the second period, with Matěj Stránský, Libor Hájek and Ondřej Palát adding the last three goals.
The Czech ice hockey team will next face Switzerland on Monday.
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05/11/2024
Sunday will be mostly sunny with day temperatures ranging between 19 and 23 degrees Celsius.
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05/11/2024
The introduction of postal voting for Czechs living abroad is awaiting final approval in the lower house. The voting could take place later this month. The second reading of the bill lasted for two days due to filibustering by the opposition, taking approximately 20 hours.
The coalition government wants the bill passed before the next parliamentary elections in autumn 2025, saying it would strengthen Czech citizens' right to vote by providing them with more options. However, the opposition fears that votes could be manipulated or interfered with if sent by mail.
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05/11/2024
An annual fund-raising run for the Memory of the Nation institute took place at Prague’s Hvězda park on Saturday. The money raised will go towards recording interviews with eye-witnesses to major events in modern Czech history, including those who fought against Nazism and Communism, or fell victim to those regimes.
At the beginning of May, the charity run took place in Pilsen and in the following days it will take place in otehr places, including Olomouc, Brno, Ostrava, Ústí nad Labem and Jihlava. Last year, the event raised CZK 1.6 million.
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05/11/2024
The Prague Zoo has announced that the baby gorilla born in its care roughly a month ago is a female. She was given the name Gaia, which means Mother Earth.
The name of the baby cub was chosen by the British primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall, who spent decades studying chimpanzees. Dr. Goodall baptised the gorilla at a ceremony in Prague Zoo on Saturday in front of hundreds of visitors.
A day earlier, the world-famous ethologist delivered a lecture at the Czech University of Life Sciences.
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05/11/2024
The annual innovation showcase Maker Fair got underway at Prague’s Exhibition Grounds on Saturday with more 200 engineers, scientists, artists, and DIY enthusiasts presenting their works. The event, which is now in its seventh year, features lectures, workshops, and presentations of cutting-edge technologies. Last year it attracted some 10,000 visitors.
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05/11/2024
German band Rammstein will perform two concerts at Prague’s Letňany Airport on Saturday and Sunday launching their European tour. The organizers expect 60,000 people to attend each of the shows. The legendary band last performed in Prague two years ago.
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05/11/2024
The opening day of the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague and Ostrava saw victories for Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and Czechia. The Czech hosts defeated Finland 1-0 in a shootout at Prague O2 Arena, with Ondřej Kaše scoring the game-winning goal. Lukáš Dostál had 21 saves and four more in the shootout. The Czech ice hockey team will next face Norway on Saturday evening.
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