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03/23/2024
The Czech Foreign Ministry has condemned the terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, in which 60 people were killed and more than 100 injured. "The Czech Republic condemns the terrorist attack near Moscow. The attack on the civilian population is unacceptable. Our condolences to the families of the victims," the ministry said on social networks. The tweet was shared by Prime Minister Petr Fiala and speaker of the lower house Markéta Pekarová Adamová.
Words of condemnation have also come from the Czech Interior Ministry. "A terrorist attack on defenseless civilians is unjustifiable under any circumstances. My condolences to the families and loved ones of all the victims of today's shocking violence in Krasnogorsk," Interior Minister Vít Rakušan wrote on the X network shortly after the news broke.
Speaker of the Senate, Miloš Vystrčil, also expressed his condolences to the families of all the victims and said a terrorist attack is terrible and horrific wherever it occurs.
According to Reuters, masked assailants burst into a large concert hall near Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing over 130 people, injuring more than 140 and setting fire to the venue. The terror group ISIS has claimed responsibility but failed to provide proof of the claim.
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03/22/2024
Saturday should be overcast and rainy around the country with day temperatures between 14 and 19 degrees Celsius.
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03/22/2024
The Regional Court in Brno has acquitted a Ukrainian national of charges of manslaughter over the death of a Romany man who died last year after a fight near the Brno dam. The court ruled that the Ukrainian national had acted in self-defense. The judge said the evidence pointed to the fact that a group of people, including the young Romany, were rowdy and troubling passengers on a tram which led the Ukrainian man to come to their defense and ask the group to calm down. When he got off the tram the group followed and attacked him. The incident has led to tensions between Ukrainians and the local Roma community.
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03/22/2024
Ester Ledecká won the final super-G slalom of the World Cup in Saalbach just a day before her 29th birthday, her first triumph since her collarbone injury two years ago. The Olympic champion in the discipline at the Pyeongchang 2018 Games beat Italy's Federica Brignone by 28 hundredths of a second, with Norway's Kajsa Vickhoff Lie placing third.
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03/22/2024
Prague's leadership has announced that it has started building a centre that would provide comprehensive care for children suffering from anxiety and mental problems. Almost a third of pupils in Prague are struggling with mental health problems and need professional help, but many are not getting it due to a lack of doctors and facilities. A study by the Centre for Primary Prevention showed that approximately 29 percent of primary school children and secondary school students have symptoms of high or medium anxiety. Severe or moderate depression is beginning to manifest itself in 11 percent of students, the study said. The new Prague centre offering comprehensive care should be operational within two years.
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03/22/2024
The governor of the Moravia-Silesia Region Jan Krkoška, who was found guilty of bribery by a Prague court on Thursday has resigned from office. He has also quit as regional councillor and will leave the ranks of the ANO party at the request of its leader Andrej Babiš. The case, which relates to large-scale bribery of doctors by pharmaceutical companies, is 12 years old and involves close to 200 people. Krkoška, who pleaded guilty, committed the act in his former position as a representative of a pharmaceutical company. He was ordered by the court to pay a fine of 200,000 crowns.
He is to be replaced as governor of Moravia-Silesia by Josef Bělica from the ANO party.
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03/22/2024
Former president Miloš Zeman (79) who is recovering at Prague’s Motol Hospital after undergoing surgery to deal with a blood clot in his leg last week will be transferred from intensive care to a normal ward on Friday, the hospital reported. Doctors say Mr. Zeman is recovering as well as can be expected and had begun rehabilitating, although his condition remains serious due to the risk of further blood clots. His condition is linked to diabetes. A hospital spokesperson said it is not clear for how long Zeman will need to be hospitalized.
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03/22/2024
A month-long series of events in support of reading will culminate on Friday with the traditional Night with Andersen held in libraries across and schools across the country.
The aim of the event, which is now in its 20th year, is to promote reading among the youngest generation with thousands of children spending the night at their local library or school where they read, chat and listen to a public reading of fairy tales.
This year, some 517 libraries and 616 schools across the country will take part in the initiative, commemorating the famous Danish children’s writer.
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03/22/2024
Football club Dukla Praha coach Petr Rada has received a record eight-month punishment by the disciplinary commission for a racist insult he made during a football second league match, Czech Football League Association said in a press release on Friday. Rada, who used to coach the Czech national football team, cannot attend Dukla's matches until the end of the autumn season. In addition, he has to pay a fine of CZK 80,000. The unprecedented punishment comes in response to Rada’s racist remarks during the second league match against Zbrojovka Brno, in which he called Zbrojovka’s coach Tomáš Polach a "desperate gypsy".
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03/21/2024
Hundreds of people have turned out to pay their respects to the Czech poet, lyricist, musician and artist Pavel Zajíček who died earlier this month at the age of 72. The farewell ceremony took place on Thursday afternoon in the Church of Peter and Paul in Radotín, where Zajíček served as an altar boy in his youth.
One of the most important figures in Czechoslovak independent culture in the 1970s, Pavel Zajíček was perhaps best known for his work as the front man of the group DG 307, which he founded with Milan “Mejla” Hlavsa.
Zajíček was jailed for a year in the 1976 trial of members of the Plastic People of the Universe and associates of the underground band. He was later forced into exile, settling in Sweden before moving to New York.
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