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06/10/2015
The president of the Czech Ice Hockey Association says the situation surrounding freshly resigned national team coach Vladimír Růžička has significantly damaged the sport in the country. Mr. Růžička quit on Tuesday after fresh allegations he took bribes to allow their children for the club Slavia Prague. Hockey association chief Tomáš Král said, however, that the affair only concerned one club and several individuals and was not symptomatic of a broader malaise. Mr. Král had backed Mr. Růžička when the first allegations of bribe-taking were made against him, shortly before the Ice Hockey World Championships last month.
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06/10/2015
Despite winning promotion to Czech soccer’s top flight Varnsdorf have decided to remain in the second division next season. A club representative said on Wednesday that bringing their stadium up to compulsory first division standards would have represented too much of a financial risk. Varnsdorf’s decision is good news for Zlín, who came third in the second division and will take the free spot among the Czech Republic’s top teams if they meet the technical conditions.
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06/10/2015
The grounds for acquittal in the case of Jana Nečasová (formerly Nagyová) are unlikely to be revealed until the start of August, the Czech News Agency reported. Prague 1 Municipal Court judge Helena Králová has applied for more time to write an opinion in view of the complexity of the case and is also taking a month’s vacation. The judge recently acquitted Mrs. Nečasová of ordering military intelligence officers to spy on the then wife of her now husband Petr Necaš. At the time she was chief aide to his prime minister and her arrest helped topple Mr. Necaš’s government. The state attorney has appealed the ruling. Mrs. Nečasová also faces trial on corruption charges.
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06/10/2015
Czech national ice hockey coach Vladimír Růžička has resigned following more allegations that he took bribes while coaching domestic league club Slavia. Mr Růžička’s decision came just hours after Czech Radio reported on Tuesday that the coach had asked several parents for large sums of money to allow their children play in the club. A criminal complaint has already been filed against the coach for bribe-taking, fraud and breach of trust in connection with a sum of CZK 500,000 he is alleged to have accepted from a man to allow his son to play for Slavia Prague. In a statement issued on Tuesday the Czech national coach rejected the allegations saying he wanted to clear his name in court.
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06/10/2015
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and Interior Minister Milan Chovanec on Tuesday met with the Czech trauma team which helped to deal with the consequences of the devastating earthquake in Nepal and handed its members honorary medals. The team of doctors, nurses and firefighters set up a field hospital in Melamchi, in central Nepal, and provided assistance to over 1,100 people. The Czechs started their mission on May 1 and spent four weeks in the area.
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06/09/2015
A majority of Czechs have a positive attitude towards nuclear energy, according to a poll carried out by the CVVM agency in May. Some 45 percent of people are happy with the current state of the country’s nuclear power capacity and 22 percent are in favour of its expansion. Just over 20 percent of respondents said they would like to reduce the use of nuclear power. The poll also suggested that nearly 50 percent of respondents would like to see another two reactors added to the country’s two unit Temelín nuclear power station.
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06/09/2015
Police revealed on Monday that the Prague home of Defence Minister Martin Stropnický was the target of a Molotov Cocktail attack. The minister was not at home when the attack took place on Sunday morning but other members of his family were. A chemical analysis of the bottles’ content found that it was inflammable, a Prague police spokesman said, refusing to disclose further details due to the ongoing investigation. The police are treating the incident as a public safety threat. There have been previous attacks against public figures. Several ministers were sent envelopes containing poison late last year.
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06/09/2015
Unemployment in the Czech Republic will continue to fall next year to a level slightly above five percent, Governor of the Czech National Bank Miroslav Singer said on Tuesday. He also said he expects salaries to rise as a result. Unemployment in the Czech Republic in May reached 6.4 percent; which is the lowest rate since June 2009. According to Mr Singer, the longest recession in the history of the Czech Republic seems to be over. He also repeated that the Czech National Bank will continue to intervene against the strengthening of the Czech crown until at least the second half of 2016.
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06/09/2015
The Christian Democratic Party has announced a self-imposed ban on trips to Russia until the country ceases destabilizing Ukraine. Party leader Pavel Bělobrádek said at a press conference on Tuesday that party members are willing to attend political negotiations on neutral ground but refuse to travel to Russia. Another reason for the move is the recent blacklist of EU politicians and diplomats, released by Russia, which bans them from entering the country. Four Czechs, including the head of the TOP 09 party Karel Schwarzenberg and former EU commissioner Štefan Füle are also included on the list.
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06/09/2015
Czech President Miloš Zeman has written a letter to Norwegian King Harald V over the high-profile case involving a Czech mother, Eva Michaláková, living in Norway, whose children were placed in foster homes, the president’s spokesman Jiří Ovčáček said on Tuesday. Mr Zeman has asked King Harald to stand up for a quick solution of the case with regard to the children’s interest. The two boys - now aged six and nine – were taken from their mother and father over alleged sexual abuse, but the Norwegian authorities have refused to make the information public to protect the children’s privacy. In the letter, which was sent to the Norwegian king last week, Mr Zeman also said that the case has been disrupting Czech-Norwegian relations as well as Norway’s image in the Czech Republic.
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