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05/12/2015
Staff at the Government Agency for Social Inclusion have suspended a strike begun on Monday. Employees at the agency, which is aimed at helping integrate Romanies into mainstream society, say they will now await the outcome of a meeting with Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka planned for next Tuesday. The dispute arose after the minister of human rights, Jiří Dienstbier, dismissed the head of the agency.
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05/12/2015
A unique exhibition of photographs of Czechoslovak legionnaires returning from Russia in 1919 has opened at the YMCA Palace in central Prague. The 50 or so pictures are the work of legionnaire Václav Balcar, who was among the soldiers as they crossed Asia and America. The exhibition The Path from War, which was prepared by the photographer’s grandson Vladimír Balcar, runs until July 15.
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05/12/2015
One of three people who President Miloš Zeman has refused to make a professor, Jan Eichler, says he has successfully undergone three security screenings. Mr. Zeman accuses Mr. Eichler of having been chief ideologue of the Communist Party prior to 1989, a charge rejected by the academic. Another of the three, art historian Jiří Fajt, again rejected Mr. Zeman’s argument that a private company was paying him bonuses as National Gallery director. Mr. Fajt said he had decided against accepting such sponsorship after consulting the minister of culture.
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05/12/2015
The 70th Prague Spring International Music Festival got underway on Tuesday morning with a memorial ceremony at the tomb of Bedřich Smetana at the city’s Vyšehrad cemetery. Dozens of people turned out to honour the composer on the anniversary of his death in 1844. Smetana’s My Country will, as is traditional, be performed at the opening concert of the Prague Spring at the Municipal Hall on Tuesday night, on this occasion by the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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05/12/2015
The prime minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, has thanked the Czech government for its help in bringing Slovak citizens back from earthquake-hit Nepal in April. Fourteen Slovak tourists were delivered to Bratislava by a Czech government plane returning from Nepal after dropping off rescue workers and a shipment of emergency aid in the South Asian state. Mr. Fico said the move was proof of the unusually good relationship between the Czech Republic and Slovakia, adding that his country would return the favour at the first opportunity.
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05/12/2015
Former health minister and regional governor David Rath has been ruled fit to appear in court on corruption charges. Mr. Rath arrived at the Regional Court in Prague on Monday, two weeks after he said he had been in a bicycle accident. His lawyers had argued that he was still unable to attend the hearing but this claim was dismissed by judges, who cited an expert opinion. The former Social Democrat politician was arrested in 2012 on suspicion of accepting bribes to rig contracts. Several others accused alongside him have been found guilty in a separate trial.
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05/11/2015
The Czech blues and rock band Krausberry, co-founded in 1984 by frontman Martin Kraus, will release a new double-album on May 15 featuring 31 songs in the order they were recorded, including rarities which were released on vinyl only in the mid-1980s The newest song on the album, which marks Kraus’ 60th birthday, is Nastydlá (Caught a cold) from 2007.
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05/11/2015
Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang has promised that existing administrative barriers hampering Czech firms' trading with Vietnam will be lifted Czech President Miloš Zeman told journalists after their Monday meeting. Mr Zeman outlined that Vietnam represented an attractive export market, saying that it was time to raise economic cooperation to a higher level. The visit by the Vietnamese president and his wife to the Czech Republic lasts until Wednesday. On Monday afternoon, the two heads-of-state were scheduled to attend a Vietnamese-Czech trade forum.
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05/11/2015
Fighter pilots from Hungary and Sweden flew Gripen jets to the Caslav air base in the Czech Republic ahead of international military exercises entitled Lion Effort underway through May 24. Thailand is also taking part but without its own aircraft. The exercise will mark a decade that Gripen fighter jets have been used to guard Czech airspace. In 2009 and 2011, similar exercises were held in Hungary and Sweden. The Czech air force will also send L-159 light combat planes, Mi-24 assault helicopters, Mi-171 multipurpose helicopters and C-295 CASA transport aircraft to take part. German Eurofighter Typhoons and Polish F-16s will also operate from their home bases. The military exercises will wrap-up with an air show and an open doors day at the base.
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05/11/2015
Calgary Flames forward Jiří Hudler, held without a point in four games, opened the scoring and also got an assist on Sunday in Game 5 of the Flames’ second-round match- against the Anaheim Ducks up in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The match was a close affair which went to overtime tied at 2-2. Calgary needed a win to cut their deficit in the best-of-seven series which they trailed 3-1 but Anaheim’s Corey Perry found the net in the extra period, sending the Flames home for the summer.
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