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03/25/2015
This year’s Prague Spring International Music Festival will place an emphasis on contemporary music, organisers say. Among the highlights of the 70th edition of the Czech Republic’s biggest classical music event will be the specially commissioned Lime Symphony by Petr Wajsar and four operas, including a new adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the Slovak composer Ľubica Čekovská. Hamburg’s North German Radio Symphony Orchestra will perform the traditional Smetana’s My Country at the festival curtain raiser at Prague’s Municipal House on May 12.
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03/25/2015
Three former police officers are being investigated in connection with the robbery of CZK 77 million at Slavkov near Brno in 2006. One of the ex-officers is also suspected of the murder of a member of the team manning the Brink’s security van carrying the money, the head of the police’s organised crime unit said on Wednesday. The body of one of the five-member gang was recently discovered buried near Brno on land owned by another reported suspect. The robbery was one of the biggest in Czech history.
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03/25/2015
In football, Czech and Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Čech has said he is not prepared to undergo the same season as the current one with the London club. Čech said that it was not the right time during the winter transfer window to change clubs but he will be looking to do so at the end of the full season if his circumstances at Chelsea do not change. Čech has been second choice ‘keeper for Chelsea after Belgian Thibaut Courtois since the start of this season, playing 14 times in league and cup competitions. He is currently in Prague as the Czech national team prepare for their 2016 European Championship game against Latvia on Saturday.
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03/25/2015
Czech actor and screenwriter Zdeněk Svěrák will be given an honourary doctorate and gold medal by Hradec Králové university on Wednesday for his lifetime contribution to the Czech language. The award ceremony is the culmination of the university’s education week. Svěrák, who wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film Kolja, originally trained to be a teacher but quit the profession to work at the then Czechoslovak radio at the start of the 1960s. He then went on to launch his acting and writing career.
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03/24/2015
Czech President Miloš Zeman has weighed into the debate about the pending US military convoy that will cross the Czech Republic on its way back from the Baltic states. Zeman described those protesting the move as gripped by ‘anti-American madness.’ And the head of state refuted the term ‘occupiers’ for the convoy, pointing out that Czechs had faced occupation twice in the previous century and knew what it meant. Zeman made his comments during a visit to the northern Liberec region. He said most Czechs would not have noticed the convoy had it not been publicised. The US convoy is expected to cross into the Czech Republic on March 29 on its way back to its home base in Bavaria, Germany.
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03/24/2015
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday that it had no information that any Czechs were on board an Airbus A320 which crashed in the French Alps, not far from the Italian border, on Tuesday morning. Checks were still being carried out, a spokesperson said. None of the passengers or crew survived the crash, according to official French sources. The Germanwings aircraft had 150 people on board, six of them being crew. It was flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf with most of the passengers believed to be German. Weather conditions in the Alps were fine and the cause of the crash is as yet unknown.
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03/24/2015
Film producer, businessman, and sport event organiser Peter Kovarčík has died in Prague at the age of 61, the agency ČTK announced on Tuesday. Most recently, Kovarčík was involved in the making of a feature film about the life of Czech film star Lída Baarová, who was romantically linked to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. He was also involved in the staging of the musicals Galileo, Les Miserables, and Mamma Mia and the award of the annual Czech acting prizes. Kovarčík was said to be a close friend of former president Václav Klaus and was linked for many years to his Civic Democrat Party. He was also known for staging top tennis events in the 1990s.
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03/24/2015
An Ostrava court on Tuesday sentenced a 19-year-old who savagely attacked popular rock singer musician Michal Hrůza to three years in prison. The co-defendant, his 18-year-old cousin, was given a one year conditional sentence suspended for two-and-a-half years. Hrůza was attacked last July in Ostrava when he tried to intervene to break up a fight. He was left with a brain haemorrhage and concussion. He has recently launched a tour of the Czech Republic.
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03/24/2015
Business confidence in the Czech economy fell in March for the third month in a row according to figures released by the Czech Statistical Office. The overall composite index fell by 0.4 percentage points to 95.1 points. Some business sectors, such as industry, are still relatively confident about prospects but overall optimism in the trade and services sectors fell. Confidence was unchanged in the construction and consumer sectors. The index climbed steadily through most of 2014 but has been slipping slightly since the end of last year.
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03/24/2015
Breakaway members of the Dawn political party have called on the party’s founder and chairman Tomio Okamura to return around 560,000 crowns in unauthorised party funds. A commission into the party’s finances led by lower house of parliament member Jiří Štětina said that the spending on advertising and publicity for elections has not been approved by the party’s governing committee but was decided by Okamura alone. Interest to the tune of 200,000 on a bank loan was also outstanding, he said. Štětina said the party coffers are almost bare although around 3.6 million is owed to suppliers and around 6.6 million crowns to the bank. The party split in February with most members of parliament saying they would create a new party and organisation with or without Okamura’s support. On Tuesday, the breakaway lawmakers expelled Okamura from their parliamentary group. Okamura has denied accusations about his use of party funds.
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