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05/25/2024
MP Tomio Okamura of Freedom and Direct Democracy is facing disciplinary proceedings in the Czech lower house after calling deputy speaker Jan Bartošek of the Christian Democrats a “modern-day Hitler” in a session debating postal voting. Mr. Bartošek said on social media that he had proposed proceedings against Mr. Okamura at the Chamber of Deputies’ Mandate and Immunity Committee over the comment.
The chair of the committee, Helena Válková of ANO, said it would deal with the complaint on Tuesday.
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05/24/2024
President Petr Pavel will be travelling to Jordan next week for an official visit to meet with the head of state King Abdullah II, with whom he plans to discuss the current situation in the Middle East as well as cooperation in the areas of healthcare, defence, energy and science. Also on the agenda are meetings with Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh, President of the Senate Faisal Al-Fayez, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Safadi.
The president will be accompanied on his trip by a Czech academic and business delegation focussed on the healthcare and defence industries. He plans to bring baby milk powder with him to be distributed as humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza by the Jordanian Air Force and to visit two hospitals in Jordan where Czechs have either volunteered as doctors or donated equipment.
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05/24/2024
Saturday is expected to be overcast and rainy for most of the day, with a possibility of sunshine and showers in the afternoon. Daytime temperatures should range between 16 and 21 degrees Celsius.
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05/24/2024
The head of the Czech Tennis Federation, Ivo Kaderka, was released from custody on Friday, the Czech News Agency reports. The president of the Czech Tennis Federation had been remanded for three months in Pankrác prison at the request of the public prosecutor to prevent him from influencing witnesses.
Mr. Kaderka faces up to 10 years in prison on charges of subsidy fraud and manipulating public tenders. He denies any wrongdoing.
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05/24/2024
Actor and director Jan Kačer passed away on Friday morning at the age of 87, his daughter Adéla Kubačáková told Czech media.
Kačer was an icon of the Czechoslovak New Wave film movement of the 1960s, starring as religious fanatic and Crusader knight Armin von Heide in the 1968 film The Valley of the Bees and as secret agent W4C aka Cyril Juan in Václav Vorlíček's 1967 James Bond parody The End of Agent W4C.
He performed in dozens of other movies and TV series, directed theatre plays, wrote several books and was also active in politics in the 1990s and 2000s. In 2016 he was awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk for services to democracy, humanity and human rights.
He was married to fellow actor Nina Divíšková, who died in 2021, for almost 60 years. The couple raised three daughters together.
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05/24/2024
An International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) tribunal has ruled that the Russian majority state-owned energy company Gazprom cannot continue legal proceedings against the Czech energy group ČEZ in Russia, ČEZ said in a statement late on Thursday.
ČEZ initiated legal proceedings against Gazprom in February 2023, seeking compensation of around 1 billion crowns ($44 million), due to the Russian supplier delivering less gas in 2022 than it had been contracted to. The gas deal was complicated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the anti-Russian sanctions the EU adopted in response. Gazprom then placed the dispute at a Russian court this year, but the ICC tribunal has now ruled that the dispute between the companies must be resolved exclusively by international arbitration, not in Russian courts.
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05/24/2024
President Petr Pavel has been discharged from hospital following a minor motorcycle accident on Thursday, the president's office announced on social media site X. He was admitted to the Central Military Hospital in Prague for examination on Thursday evening and remained overnight for monitoring. He was discharged on Friday morning. The president's team has said that his schedule for next week will remain unchanged, including his planned trips abroad.
Mr. Pavel sustained his injuries when he fell off his motorbike while riding off-road on a closed-circuit track. Since he was riding at a low speed, his injuries weren't said to be serious, according to both his office and the hospital.
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05/24/2024
Czechia beat the USA 1-0 in the quarterfinals of the Ice Hockey World Championship on Thursday evening. Czech goalie Lukáš Dostál stopped 36 shots by the US team in Prague, frustrating all their opportunities to score. An ecstatic home crowd celebrated a 1-0 verdict thanks to Pavel Zacha's goal at 26:29.
On Saturday afternoon the Czechs will be playing in the semi-finals against Sweden for their chance to compete for a gold medal against either Canada or Switzerland, depending on the outcome of the second semi-final four hours later.
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05/23/2024
President Petr Pavel has suffered a minor accident while riding his motorcycle, the president's office announced on social media site X on Thursday evening. Although his injuries aren't serious, he has been taken to the Central Military Hospital in Prague for examination.
The 62-year-old is a keen motorcyclist and didn't give up his passion even after being elected to office.
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05/23/2024
The third season of the Apple TV+ series Foundation, which is loosely based on the science fiction book series of the same name by Isaac Asimov, has resumed filming again in Czechia after being suspended due to the US screenwriters and actors' strike last year, the Czech Association of Audiovisual Producers stated in a press release on Thursday. The third season is being shot in Prague and Poland, where Czech crew members have also gone to help out. Filming is expected to continue until at least the end of August.
The second season of the series, released in 2023, was also filmed in Prague.
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