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01/22/2009
Czech sound technician Petr Forejt has been nominated for an Oscar for his work on the film Wanted, which was shot on location in Prague. He was nominated alongside colleagues Chris Jenkins and Frank Montano for his work on the film. Mr Forejt was the only Czech to feature in this year’s Oscars nominations, last year Valašské Meziříčí’s own Markéta Irglová won a best-song Oscar alongside Ireland’s Glen Hansard for Falling Slowly from the film Once.
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01/22/2009
A tram driver has been sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of reckless driving. Three people died in April last year when Petr Hroch caused a head-on collision with another tram in Ostrava. On Thursday, Mr Hroch immediately appealed the verdict and refused to comment on the sentence he was handed. During the trail, Mr Hroch did, however, say that he felt himself to be the guilty party in a crash which killed three and injured 66.
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01/22/2009
Czech women’s tennis number one Iveta Benešová is out of the Australian Open in the second round after losing to an on-form Elena Dementieva on Thursday. Benešová was crushed in two sets by the Russian 6-4, 6-1. The only Czechs to make it into the third round of the competition are Tomas Berdych and his girlfriend Lucie Šafářová, who both recorded wins on Wednesday, over Argentina’s Brian Dabul and New Zealand’s Marina Erakovic respectively.
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01/21/2009
The Czech foreign minister, Karel Schwarzenberg, says he would welcome Russian involvement in a planned US missile defence system that would be part based in the Czech Republic. Speaking in Brussels on Wednesday, he also said he did not think America would drop the plan because of the global financial crisis. On Tuesday German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Russia should be involved in the missile defence shield. Moscow has frequently voiced opposition to the project, which the new American president, Barrack Obama, has said will only be realised if it is proven to work and is cost-effective.
Prague has signed treaties with Washington on the building of a radar base in central Bohemia. They have been approved by the Czech Senate but are yet to go before the Chamber of Deputies. Opinion polls suggest around two thirds of Czechs are against the plan.
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01/21/2009
Pope Benedict XVI is due to visit the Czech Republic in the second half of September. The pope informed representatives of the Czech Roman Catholic church of his plans to visit the country, a spokesperson for the Czech Bishops’ Conference said on Wednesday, adding that the pontiff’s stay was likely to last two or three days. The Vatican has not yet announced the exact dates; its policy is to do so only six months before a planned papal trip. Pope Benedict XVI’s predecessor John Paul II visited the Czech Republic three times.
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01/21/2009
The Czech MEP Vladimír Železný has founded a new political party called Libertas.cz, the newspaper Lidové noviny reported. The party is linked to Libertas.eu, a Europe-wide group originally founded by euro-sceptic businessman Declan Ganley to campaign against the EU’s Lisbon treaty in Ireland. Mr Železný has not confirmed reports that he registered Libertas.cz with the Czech Interior Ministry last week; however, a representative of Libertas.eu said he had done so, with its knowledge. Mr Železný, who heads the small Independent Democrats in the Czech Republic, was formerly the boss of TV Nova.
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01/21/2009
The Czech president, Václav Klaus, has congratulated Barrack Obama on being appointed president of the USA. In a letter published on his own website, Mr Klaus said for many Czechs the US was a symbol of freedom and optimism, democracy and economic success, patriotism and international solidarity. He also drew attention to the role played by America in the foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918. President Klaus invited President Obama to visit him at Prague Castle, and said he hoped relations between their states would develop dynamically during the latter’s term of office.
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01/21/2009
The Chamber of Deputies Foreign Affairs Committee has postponed discussions on the European Union’s Lisbon treaty until February 15, when it will also go before the lower house’s Constitutional-Legal Committee. Deputies are expected to vote on ratifying the document during a session which begins at the start of next month, after a debate on the matter was postponed in December. Even if it is ratified, Czech President Václav Klaus has indicated that he will not sign Lisbon unless it is approved by Ireland; Irish voters rejected the reform document in a referendum last June and are due to vote on it again this year.
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01/21/2009
Natural gas supplies from Russia began arriving in the Czech Republic on Tuesday evening, said a spokesperson for the biggest Czech distributor RWE Transgas. Russia began pumping gas again after agreeing a new deal on the price of gas and transit with Ukraine, bringing to an end a two-week crisis that left hundreds of thousands of people without heat. The Czech Republic is normally around 75 percent dependent on Russian gas; however, it managed to increase supplies from northern Europe and did not experience a shortfall.
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01/21/2009
The health of former Czech president Vaclav Havel has improved slightly, though he will remain in intensive care, a spokesperson for Motol hospital said on Wednesday. The playwright, who is 72, was admitted to hospital with breathing difficulties a week and a half ago and underwent minor surgery to remove an abscess from his throat. There were complications following the operation due to congestion of the right lung. Much of Mr Havel’s right lung was removed when he was diagnosed with cancer in the mid-1990s.
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