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03/25/2024
Czech tennis player Tomáš Macháč has advanced to the fourth round in Miami, after defeating former World No. 1 Andy Murray 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 on Sunday. The 23-year-old Czech won after three hours and 28 minutes, marking the third-longest best-of-three Miami men’s singles match on record.
The Czech world No. 60, who advanced to the fourth round of an ATP Masters 1000 for the first time, will next meet Italian Matteo Arnaldi, who defeated Denis Shapovalov earlier in the day.
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03/25/2024
An extraordinary convention of the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (ČMKOS) is being held in Prague on Monday, where trade unionists are expected to elect their chairman and vice-chairman.
Josef Středula, who recently quit the leadership of the union due to not having paid his union membership fees, is the only candidate for the post. He has been leading the national confederation since 2014.
With 31 unions and about 270,000 members, the ČMKOS is the largest trade union headquarters in the country. 14 unions, including the largest one KOVO, nominated Středula for the chairmanship.
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03/24/2024
Several dozen people gathered outside the Regional Court in Brno on Sunday to protest the court’s ruling in the case of the death of a Romany man at the Brno dam last year. Earlier this week, the court acquitted a Ukrainian national of charges of manslaughter, ruling that he had acted in self-defense.
The judge said the evidence pointed to the fact that a group of people, including the young Romany, were rowdy and troubling passengers on a tram which led the Ukrainian man to come to their defense and ask the group to calm down. When he got off the tram the group followed and attacked him. The incident has led to tensions between Ukrainians and the local Roma community.
If it were the other way around, no one would recognize it as necessary defence, said one of the Romani protesters.
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03/24/2024
Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who is on a four-day visit to Prague, is due to unveil a memorial plaque to physician Frantisek Skorina on Old Town Square. Skorina’s translation of the Bible was printed in Prague in 1517 as the first Belarusian book.
On Monday, Mrs. Tsikhanouskaya will attend the opening of the Belarusian Democratic Forces office in Prague and a special screening of the documentary ‘An Accidental President” at the One World festival, her personal and political portrait. Concluding her visit on Tuesday, Tsikhanouskaya is scheduled to meet with top Czech politicians.
The opposition leader has been living in exile in Lithuania, where she fled shortly after running in the 2020 presidential election against Alexander Lukashenko, who was contentiously declared the victor. Her husband, blogger Sjarhei Cichanouski, was sentenced to 18 years in prison last year for organizing demonstrations against the Lukashenko regime.
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03/24/2024
Sunday will be cloudy with rain and day temperatures ranging between 6 and 10 degrees Celsius.
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03/24/2024
The number of sightings of the common jackal in the protected landscape of Pálava in south Moravia has recently increased, the Czech News Agency has reported. According to local zoologists, it is not clear how many jackals have settled in the area.
The common jackal has also found its way into other places in Czechia, with a stable population recorded in the former military area in Milovice in central Bohemia.
The wolf-like canines are migrating to Czechia from their original habitat in Turkey and the Balkans as a result of the warming climate. The first piece of evidence proving the existence of jackals in the country was taken in 2015 by a camera trap just 40 kilometres out of Prague.
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03/24/2024
Czechia received CZK 1.2 trillion from the European Union between 2014 and 2023, according to an analysis by CRIF, published by the Czech News Agency on Sunday. In addition to these subsidies, Czechia has also received support from the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund, as well as subsidies for agriculture from the Recovery and Resilience Facility. The largest share of subsidies from EU programmes in the period in question was drawn by local governments, with over a fifth of the volume going to commercial companies.
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03/24/2024
Czech Radek Houser won the bronze medal in the Snowboard Cross World Cup in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada, on Saturday. In a close finish, he beat Canada’s Evan Bichon. The 27-year-old Czech reached the podium for the first time in his career. Another Czech, Eva Adamczyková, finished fifth in the women’s race.
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03/24/2024
Another two UH-1Y Venom helicopters that are to be used by the Czech Army have arrived at the military base in Náměšt' nad Oslavou, the army said on Saturday on the X network.
In total, Czechia is set to acquire twelve H-1 machines from the US, eight multipurpose UH-1Y Venom helicopters and four AH-1Z Vipers, as part of its air force modernisation effort. The Czech Army currently has ten of the purchased machines.
A further six Vipers and two Venoms will be gifted to the Czech Army by the US to compensate for the equipment Czechia has sent to aid Ukraine. All of them should arrive by the end of the year.
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03/23/2024
Some 411,000 Czechs, mostly students and university staff, have participated in international exchanges with the European scholarship programme Erasmus+ over the past 25 years, the Czech News Agency reported on Saturday, citing data by the House of Foreign Cooperation. During the same period, some 118,500 university students came Czechia for study and nearly 30,000 for practical training.
Erasmus, which is the largest European programme in education, was launched in 1987 and Czechia joined it in 1998. It is currently open not only to university students, but also to secondary and primary school pupils, teachers, youth workers and sports coaches.
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