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02/20/2023
Almost a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the majority of Czechs side with the West, while a third do not have a clear stance on the matter, suggests a newly released poll by the STEM agency. According to the poll, carried out in January, there has been no significant increase in the number of pro-Russian respondents.
Some 60 percent of Czechs approve of helping Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war, which is slightly more than last summer. More than half of Czechs believe that the country’s membership in the EU has a positive impact on the country’s international security.
The poll also suggests that 28 percent of respondents support an active stance to the conflict in Ukraine, 24 percent reject NATO involvement and five percent are strongly pro-Russian.
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02/20/2023
A 41-year-old record held by Czech runner Jarmila Kratochvílová has been broken. On Sunday the Dutch athlete Femke Bol set a new indoor world record in the women’s 400 metres at the Dutch national championships in Apeldoorn in a time of 49.26 seconds, taking 0.33 of a second off the Czech’s long-standing record.
Kratochvílová set the hitherto record in Milan in 1982. The Czech, who is today 72, still holds the women’s 800m record, which she achieved in Munich the following year; it is the longest-standing individual world record in athletics.
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02/20/2023
Czech sound designer Viktor Prášil has won a BAFTA award for Best Sound for his work on the film All Quiet on the Western Front. The German movie, which was the biggest winner with seven prizes at Sunday evening’s awards ceremony in London, was shot in Czechia.
Four Czechs are in the running for Academy Awards for their work on All Quiet on the Western Front.
Mr. Prášil has previously worked on such Czech films as Havel and The Noonday Witch.
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02/19/2023
Czechia has so far donated about CZK 4.8 billion in unused military materiel from the stocks of the Czech Army to Ukraine, a spokesperson for the Czech Ministry of Defence told the Czech News Agency on Sunday.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine almost exactly a year ago Czechia has exported over CZK 50 billion in military equipment to Ukraine.
Czechia received the first compensation for its aid to Ukraine from the European Union in January. The US has also pledged to provide Czechia with funding to modernise its army.
The nature of the aid to Ukraine has not been specified for security and tactical reasons, but according to available information Prague has sent heavy equipment, including tanks and helicopter gunships to Ukraine, as well as ammunition and small arms.
Dozens of Ukrainian soldiers have been treated in Czechia. Ukrainian hardware is repaired in this country, while the country’s soldiers also receive training here.
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02/19/2023
Leading domestic economists say the Czech government’s plan for a special one-off old-age pension measure is unsystematic. Speaking on Czech Television on Sunday pensions expert Danuše Nerudová, ex-central bank chief Jiří Rusnok and former National Budgetary Council member Richard Hindls all questioned the wisdom of a move under which there would a one-time adjustment to the index-linking of pensions.
Mrs. Nerudová said it did not make sense to introduce a one-off measure.
The opposition parties ANO and Freedom and Direct Democracy have said they will use all possible means to block a vote on the matter, including major filibustering.
Mr. Rusnok said if they succeed in preventing the move going through the state debt would grow by tens of billions of crowns.
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02/19/2023
Some 94,400 refugees from Ukraine had jobs in Czechia at the end of January, the Czech News Agency reported on Sunday, citing an official from the national labour authority. To date over 190,000 people fleeing Russia’s war on Ukraine got work under Czechia’s special temporary visa protection system; however, many have since returned to their native country or left their jobs for other reasons. Seven in 10 of the Ukrainian visas working in this country are women.
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02/19/2023
A new café has opened in Prague dedicated to the late Karel Gott. Named Café Karel, the venue is decorated with photos of the country’s most successful pop singer of all time.
The official opening was attended by members of Karel Gott fan clubs from his native country and from Germany, where the singer also sold millions of albums.
The café is located in the passageway of the Divadlo v Dlouhé theatre in the downtown area.
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02/19/2023
It should be mainly overcast with some rain in Czechia on Monday, with an average high temperature of 10 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on the following days.
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02/19/2023
Czechia plans to terminate long-term contracts with Russia on the free rental of land on which buildings owned by the Moscow government stand, Czech Television reported. A draft proposal to that end should be discussed by Czech ministers next week.
In addition, Czech officials intend to recover rents from the Russians; the Russian Federation owns dozens of properties in Czechia and continues to rent out many of them, Czech Television said.
Russia owns valuable real estate in places such as the Prague 6 district and the Jevany area in Prague East. Most of these properties are located on Czech land, with the contracts signed following the Soviet-led invasion of 1968.
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02/19/2023
Imports of gas from Russia to Czechia fell to zero last month, the Czech minister of industry and trade, Jozef Síkela, said on Twitter. The state replaced Russian imports with liquefied natural gas from the Netherlands and Belgium.
In the last five months Russia supplied an average of 2.2 percent; in previous years around 97 percent of imports came from there.
Czechia began looking intensively for alternative sources of power following the Moscow government’s decision to invade Ukraine 12 months ago.
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