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09/27/2017
Thursday should be sunny to partly cloudy with day temperatures between 17 and 21 degrees Celsius.
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09/27/2017
The American conductor and pianist Dennis Russel Davies is to head the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra as of next year, the ctk news agency reported.
The seasoned musician has worked with leading European ensembles. He held permanent posts with the Baden-Württemberg State Opera House, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Beethovenhalle and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra among others.
The Brno Philharmonic has been without a permanent head for almost two years since the departure of Serbian Alexandar Markovic whose tenure ended in 2015.
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09/27/2017
Historians from the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes have gained access to several thousand documents from Russian archives relating to Czech and Slovak soldiers fighting in exile who were interned in Soviet gulags by the communist regime during WWII.
This is the first time that Moscow has released these sensitive documents for study outside Russian territory. They were acquired by Museum of the Slovak National Uprising which has given Czech historians access to them as well.
According to the head of the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising Stanislav Mičev close to 70,000 Czechs and Slovaks were interned in Russia between 1941 and 1945, among them two generals and 159 lieutenants. Over 4,000 of them never came home.
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09/27/2017
A Prague court has upheld a six months suspended sentence for the members of the art group Stohoven.
Three members of the art group were earlier found guilty of disorderly conduct, criminal damage and theft for illicitly removing the presidential flag above Prague Castle and replacing it with a giant pair of red shorts in protest at the policies of President Miloš Zeman.
The state attorney in the case appealed the lower instance court verdict on the grounds that it was too mild. Two of the group members were in court to hear the verdict, the third died in a car accident earlier this year.
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09/27/2017
An annual event aimed at promoting the country’s brewing traditions has begun in pubs and restaurants around the Czech Republic. The Days of Czech Beer campaign, which runs until Sunday, offers drinkers the opportunity to sample beers from dozens of breweries, including one-off ones created for the event.
It also aims to support drinking draft beers in pubs and so prevent the demise of traditional Czech hostelries, an organiser said.
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09/27/2017
The minister of the interior, Milan Chovanec, told President Miloš Zeman that he had no information regarding the Stork’s Nest affair in a meeting at Prague Castle on Tuesday evening. Mr. Chovanec said he told the president he had no way of knowing more about the case than Mr. Zeman himself already knew from the media.
The lower house voted to lift the immunity of ANO chief Andrej Babiš so he can face criminal charges of subsidy abuse in connection with Stork’s Nest, a farm and hotel complex. Mr. Babiš says the allegations are part of a campaign to harm him ahead of next month’s elections.
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09/26/2017
Czech-made military hardware has appeared in a promotional video for the Azerbaijani army, despite the fact that the Czech Republic has an official embargo against supplying such products to the country, Hospodářské noviny reported on Tuesday. The items in question are the DANA artillery piece and the RM-70 rocket launcher.
A spokesperson for the Azerbaijani army said it had acquired the equipment from the Czech Republic. Its producer, Czechoslovak Group, says it adhered to all laws and regulations regarding sales. The Czech authorities and secret services are looking into the matter, Hospodářské noviny said.
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09/26/2017
Around 90.9 million rail journeys were made in the Czech Republic in the first half of 2017, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Ministry of Transport. The number was 1.7 million higher than for the same period the previous year. The total distance covered by passengers rose more sharply, by 6.5 percent.
The figure for bus journeys in the Czech Republic in the January to July period remained at 173 million, according to the transport ministry.
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09/26/2017
The Czech national soccer team manager, Karel Jarolím, has called up only one uncapped player, Olomouc’s Šimon Falta, for two World Cup qualifiers against Azerbaijan and San Marino. The midfielder, who is 24, has scored three goals and made one assist for his club this season.
The Czechs final World Cup qualifiers games, in Baku on October 5 and in San Marino three days later, will be of little consequence as Jarolím’s men are already out of the running for Russia 2018.
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09/26/2017
It should be cloudy with sunny spells in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, with temperatures of up to around 19 degrees Celsius. The weather is expected to remain largely unchanged until the start of next week.
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