• Czech president to open Prague Castle exhibition in Moscow
    11/23/2017

    Czech President Miloš Zeman is set to open an exhibition presenting Prague Castle treasures in the history museum in Moscow’s Red Square on Thursday, the fourth day of his official visit to Russia. In the afternoon Mr Zeman will travel to Yekaterinburg to attend another Russian-Czech business forum.

    On Wednesday, the Czech head of state awarded four Russian personalities at a reception he and his wife Ivana held at the Czech embassy in Moscow as a way to thank Russian war veterans who took part in the liberation of Czechoslovakia from the Nazi occupation. He also met with the last Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • ANO deputy Radek Vondráček elected chairman of lower house
    11/22/2017

    ANO deputy Radek Vondráček has been elected chairman of the new lower house of parliament, the Czech News Agency reported on Wednesday.

    Vondráček, who was nominated by the ANO party, was the only nominee for the post. In the secret ballot, he received backing from 135 MPs of 197 present.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Growing number of Czechs unwilling to travel to work
    11/22/2017

    Czechs are less willing to move because of work, according to an analysis by the Grafton Recruitment agency, released by Czech News Agency on Wednesday.

    Some 65 percent of people would not be willing to move despite a better job offer, which is nine percentage points more than in 2015. Among the reasons behind the increase is low unemployment and increasing salaries.

    Labour mobility in the Czech Republic has traditionally been low compared to Western Europe.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Grospič to head Mandate and Immunity Committee
    11/22/2017

    Communist deputy Stanislav Grospič was elected the head of the parliamentary Mandate and Immunity Committee on Wednesday. Mr Grospič received 11 votes while his sole rival for the post, Petr Gazdík of Mayors and Independents, got seven votes.

    Among other things, the 19-member committee is responsible for making recommendations to the assembly about lifting MP’s immunity, opening the way for their criminal prosecution. That is currently a hot topic given the renewed police application for the immunity of ANO leader Andrej Babiš to be lifted so he can face fraud charges.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Weather
    11/22/2017

    Thursday is expected to be partly cloudy with daytime highs ranging between nine and 13 degrees Celsius.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Russian PM reacts to article on 1968 invasion
    11/22/2017

    Russian Prime Minister Dmitriv Mededev has distanced himself from the article published on the website of Russian state-wide television channel Zvezda on Tuesday, maintaining that Czechs should be grateful that Soviet-led forces invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968.

    During a meeting with Czech president Miloš Zeman in Russia, Mr Medvedev said the article didn’t reflect the position of the Russian leadership and expressed the personal opinion of the author.

    The article in question claimed that the Soviet led forces had prevented the West from orchestrating a coup in the then-communist country by means, it claimed, which were delayed until 1989.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech companies sign 19-billion crown deals in Russia
    11/22/2017

    Czech companies signed contracts to the tune of 19 billion crowns in Moscow on Wednesday. The Czech tractor maker Zetor signed a deal with Russian company KEMZ, which should bring it around 14 billion crowns within the next four years.

    The contracts were signed at the Czech Russian Business Forum in the presence of Czech president Miloš Zeman.

    According to Eva Veličková, the spokeswoman of the Confederation of Industry and Transport, more agreements are expected to be signed at another business forum in Yekaterinburg on Friday.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Czech family firm to provide 10,000 pucks to Olympic Games in Korea
    11/22/2017

    A family firm from the Czech Republic will provide nearly 10,000 hockey pucks to the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea. The company GUFEX, located in Kateřinice in north Moravia, began producing pucks in 1994.

    Since then, they have been used at all significant tournaments of the International Ice Hockey Federation, Winter Olympic Games, World Championship and other international tournaments. The company currently produces around 1.2 million pucks a year.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Avalanche alert issued for Jeseníky mountains
    11/22/2017

    An avalanche warning has been issued by authorities in the Jeseníky mountains in the north-east of the Czech Republic on Wednesday. The lowest, grade one warning, has been issued following recent snowfall, which brought about 25 centimetres of snow. A first-degree avalanche alert is also in place in the Krkonoše mountains.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

  • Ex-PM Nečas’s wife sentenced over abuse of power
    11/22/2017

    Ex-PM Nečas’s wife sentenced over abuse of power The former head of office of ex-prime minister Petr Nečas, Jana Nečasová (formerly Nagyová) was found guilty of abusing her public position by ordering the army’s intelligence service to spy on Mr. Nečas’ then-wife Radka.

    A High Court in Prague gave Nečasová, whom she allegedly ordered to spy on the then prime minister’s wife, a two-year jail sentence suspended for three years. Another three former military intelligence officers also received suspended sentences. The verdict is still not legally binding and may be appealed.

    A Prague district court previously cleared Nečasová of the charges, accepting the ex-prime minister’s assertion that the intelligence services had merely protected his wife from being followed.

    Jana Nečasová was romantically linked to the prime minister and later became his wife. The case exploded in June 2013, bringing down the centre-right government of Petr Nečas.
    Author: Ruth Fraňková

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