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05/18/2023
The former governor of Central Bohemia David Rath was released from prison in Brno on Thursday after serving the remainder of his prison sentence for corruption.
The regional court in Prague sentenced the former health minister and governor of Central Bohemia to 7 years in jail for corruption in June of 2018. The sentence was later extended by one year.
Rath was arrested with seven million crowns on his person in 2012 and accused of taking bribes to rig public contracts. He has appealed the verdict several times to no avail.
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05/18/2023
Two falcons and their three chicks nesting in the Broumov Protected Landscape Area were confirmed to have been killed by bird flu. According to a spokesman for the Czech Nature and Landscape Protection Agency, the result of the death was confirmed by an autopsy carried out by the State Veterinary Institute.
Last year, four pairs of falcons in the Broumov region managed to raise their young, which was the highest number in the last 70 years. Falcons disappeared from Czechia in the middle of the last century due to pesticides and only repopulated the Broumov region at the turn of the millennium.
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05/18/2023
A Czech volunteer was injured in an accident in Ukraine, the Health Reinsurance Association announced on Thursday. The man, who was helping out in local children’s homes near Zaporozhye in southeast Ukraine, is reported to have undergone surgery and is no longer in critical condition.
The organisation is now raising money to cover the cost of his treatment.
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05/18/2023
Czech Radio is celebrating its centenary this Thursday. To mark the occasion, many Prague trams are flying Czech flags and the logo of the public radio broadcaster. An open-air concert marking the 100th anniversary is scheduled to take place in the evening in Riegrovy Sady in Prague.
Among other events marking the centenary of Czech Radio is an exhibition called One Hundred Years is Just the Beginning, which got underway on Thursday at the National Technical Museum in Prague. On Saturday, May 20, Czech Radio will open its doors to the public, both at its Prague headquarters and its regional studios.
Regular public radio broadcasting in Czechoslovakia began May 18, 1923 from a canvas tent in Kbely on the outskirts of Prague.
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05/18/2023
Moscow will take retaliatory steps in response if Czechia requests three years' rent retroactively for Czech property used free of charge by Russia, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday, citing Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign minister.
The Czech government canceled nine resolutions on Wednesday from the 1970s and 1980s which granted the former Soviet Union the use of certain Czech real estate free of charge. The property was supposed to be used for diplomatic purposes, but Czechia says that Russia uses the land for non-diplomatic purposes, so there is no reason to continue providing it for free. The cancellation of the normalisation-era edicts also allows for the possibility of Czechia demanding taxes and rent from Russia for up to the last three years.
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05/18/2023
Czechia’s counterintelligence service BIS has asked President Petr Pavel to allow the former head of the presidential office, Vratislav Mynář, to be released from his obligation of confidentiality for the time he was in his post, news site Deník N reported on Thursday morning. If the president signs off on this request, Mr Mynář will likely be questioned about the leaking of confidential information from BIS to the presidential office.
Former president Miloš Zeman was already questioned in connection with this case at the end of January. Shortly before the end of his tenure as president, Mr Zeman received the same request from the counterintelligence service asking for Mr Mynář to be released from his obligation of confidentiality, but he refused to sign it.
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05/17/2023
The government has approved the cancellation of several resolutions from 1970-1982 that allowed Russians to use real estate in the Czech Republic free of charge, news site Deník N reported on Wednesday afternoon. This move opens up the possibility of demanding taxes and rent from Russia, even three years retroactively.
The government returned to the issue at their cabinet meeting on Wednesday, after the proposal had been tabled since it was last on their agenda two months ago.
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05/17/2023
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala and his Saxon counterpart Michael Kretschmer signed a memorandum of cooperation in Dresden on Wednesday that should make it possible to speed up approval processes for lithium mining in the Ore Mountains on both sides of the border.
Cínovec boasts Europe's largest deposit of lithium, which the European Union has classified as a critical material. The lithium deposit in Cínovec should enable the production of batteries for half a million electric cars.
Mining is scheduled to begin in 2026.
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05/17/2023
Thursday will continue to be overcast but should see marginally warmer temperatures of up to 14 degrees Celsius. No rain is expected.
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05/17/2023
Activists from the group Kaputin protested outside an apartment building belonging to the family of a Russian arms manufacturer in Prague's Žižkov district on Wednesday. They were calling for the building to be expropriated and sold, with the profits going to aid Ukraine, and for the Czech government to apply sanctions more consistently against Russian oligarchs connected to Vladimir Putin.
The apartment building is owned by Rostislav Zorikov, the son-in-law of Russian arms manufacturer Boris Obnosov, who is the CEO of Russia's most important missile and bomb manufacturer, Tactical Missiles Corporation. In addition to the building in Žižkov, the family also owns properties in the Prague districts of Hlubočepy and Barrandov worth several hundred million crowns.
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