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04/19/2024
Hella, the debut novel by Russia expert Alena Machoninová, has won the main Book of the Year prize at the Magnesia Litera awards. Hella attempts to reconstruct the story of a Czech Jewish woman who was the prototype of a character in a 1937 novel by Jiří Weil set in the USSR.
The prize for best prose work of 2023 went to poet Marek Torčík for his first prose publication, Rozložíš paměť (You Dismantle Memory). Another poet, Tomáš T. Kůs, took the annual award for contribution to literary culture, in recognition of his popularisation of slam poetry.
Prizes in several other categories were also handed out in the 23rd edition of the Magnesia Litera awards in Prague on Thursday evening.
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04/18/2024
Semyon Bychkov will step down from his position as principal conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in 2028. The 77-year-old Russian-born American has led the orchestra since 2018, when he replaced the late Jiří Bělohlávek and became the fourth foreign chief conductor of Czechia’s most important classical ensemble since 1989.
The general director of the Czech Philharmonic, David Mareček, said on Thursday that the orchestra had experienced unprecedented artistic growth under Mr. Bychkov's leadership.
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04/18/2024
It should be mainly overcast with some rain in Czechia on Friday. An average high temperature of 8 degrees Celsius is expected. More grey skies are expected on the following days.
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04/18/2024
Prague’s transit authority has announced a tender with an estimated value of over CZK 80 billion for the purchase of driverless trains for the city’s C and D Metro lines, a spokesperson said on Thursday.
The Prague Public Transport Company aims to select a supplier and sign a contract with them by October 2025. The trains should be delivered by 2029.
The Prague Metro currently has three lines while a fourth, the D line, is under construction.
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04/18/2024
Production of passenger cars in Czechia increased by 11.5 percent year-on-year to 394,443 vehicles in the first quarter of this year. This is the highest output ever recorded in the sector in the first three months of a year.
The country’s biggest exporter, Škoda Auto, produced nearly a quarter of million cars in the first quarter.
Electric car production in Czechia fell by one-third to 27,000 between the beginning of January and the end of March.
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04/18/2024
The head of Czechia’s BIS counter-intelligence service, Michal Koudelka, discussed its recent operation to uncover a Russian influence network with members of the lower house’s Security Committee on Thursday. The secret service broke up a Russian group that it said was paying politicians in European Union countries and attempting to influence European Parliament elections.
After Thursday’s in camera meeting the chair of the Security Committee, Pavel Žáček, said other countries were also looking into the matter, among them Poland, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany.
On Wednesday the Czech and Belgian prime ministers sent a letter to EU leaders warning against Kremlin attempts to interfere in the European Parliament elections.
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04/18/2024
Frosts, which can damage ripening vegetables and flowering fruit trees, are set to appear in Czechia in the coming nights. The Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute said on Thursday that freezing temperatures are likely to be recorded in the country overnight on Friday as well as on Sunday and Monday.
Up to 40 centimetres of snow is expected to fall in the mountains, the forecasters said.
Temperatures dropped below zero in some areas on Wednesday night, while snowfall in the upland Šumava complicated traffic.
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04/18/2024
Opposition leader Andrej Babiš says that the European Union’s Pact on Migration and Asylum is the greatest betrayal of Czechia in modern history. Speaking in the lower house on Thursday, the ANO chairman said that Prime Minister Petr Fiala and Interior Minister Vít Rakušan were responsible for Czech acceptance of the agreement, which he called “insane and monstrous”.
Mr. Babiš said the two cabinet members had traded Czech security, culture and way of life for uncontrolled migration, a crime explosion and breakdown of society.
For his part Mr. Rakušan said the opposition were fear-mongering over migration.
After years of talks, the European Parliament recently approved an overhaul of the EU’s migration and asylum rules.
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04/18/2024
Some 21 million people visited cultural landmarks in Czechia last year, which was a 17 percent year-on-year rise on 2022. The data from the national agency CzechTourism was published by the Czech News Agency on Thursday.
Of nearly 10 million foreign visitors who used accommodation in Czechia last year some 43 percent visited at least one cultural landmark.
French tourists were the most likely to visit such a site: around three-quarters visited a cultural landmark while they were in the country.
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04/18/2024
The Czech and Belgian prime ministers have sent a letter to EU leaders about Russian attempts to interfere in the European Parliament elections, EP President Roberta Metsola told journalists on Wednesday ahead of an extraordinary EU summit. Prime ministers Petr Fiala and Alexander De Croo wrote in their letter, which De Croo shared on social media site X, that the attempted Russian interference "involved the transfer of cash, primarily in the Czech Republic."
Czechia calls in the letter for the inclusion of the media company Voice of Europe on European sanctions lists, as well as other individuals and legal entities involved in the Russian-funded influence network uncovered by the Czech counter-intelligence agency BIS in March. "We simply cannot allow Russia to get away with such a blatant attack on our democratic institutions and principles. We must arm ourselves against this both at the national and European level," the two prime ministers wrote.
The Czech daily Deník N and the German weekly Der Spiegel reported that money has been flowing from Russia via Voice of Europe to right-wing European politicians, including German MP Petr Bystron, the number two European candidate for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
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