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11/20/2009
Czech’s interest in politics has reportedly declined considerably over the last 18 years, according to a study published on Friday by sociologists from Brno’s Masaryk University and the agency SC&C. The study suggests that while 80% of people followed politics daily or several times a week ten years ago, only half that number do so today. The declining interest in politics is moreover shared across age groups and education levels. While the vast majority of people rate democracy as at least a “relatively good” way of running the country, that number dropped from 92% in 1999 to 80% in 2008. The poll was conducted among 2,000 people in the years 1991, 1999, and 2008.
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11/20/2009
A homeless man in Tachov, near the western German border, who was sleeping in a paper rubbish container is dead after collectors inadvertently dumped him into the compactor. The refuse collectors only realised what was happening when they heard the man scream from inside the compactor and were unable to stop the machine in time. The victim was 25 years old.
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11/20/2009
The Žižkov Television Tower, the tallest structure in Prague, has come in second place in an online poll ranking the ugliest buildings in the world. The poll was conducted by the website VirtualTourist.com. According to the patrons of the popular website, the only uglier building on the planet is the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore, USA. The 216-metre tower, which is often compared to a rocket launch pad, has stirred controversy since its completion in 1992. In the year 2000 a number of enormous black babies created by the artist David Černý were added to the building’s façade as a temporary art project and were later kept by popular demand.
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11/20/2009
A new charter airline, Eurovia Air, plans to operate in the Czech Republic. According to the daily Mladá Fronta Dnes the company, which is the work of an Ostrava businessman, will begin operations in the spring of 2010 and intends to compete with the large carriers. The newspaper writes that the company does not yet possess planes, but that travel agents are already listing it in their catalogues for next year. Eurovia Air is to exclusively serve clients of Czech travel agencies headed for seaside destinations.
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11/20/2009
The sale of new computers in the Czech Republic dropped in the third quarter of 2009 by 12% year-on-year. The sale of 317,590 computers did mark an increase of 89% from the previous quarter, however. A more marked slump was recorded for desktop computers, sales of which were down by 40% compared with the same quarter last year. The best selling brand was Acer, followed by Hewlett-Packard and Asus.
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11/20/2009
The actress and singer Lucie Vondráčková received gold and platinum albums on Thursday for her two-disk CD, Fénix. Fénix has sold 30,000 copies since its release in June of 2008 and won the 29-year-old first place among female singers in the Album of the Year poll. Ms Vondráčková is the daughter of artist Jiří Vondráček and the niece of the popular singer Helena Vondráčková.
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11/19/2009
The Czech government has approved a plan to deal with the swine flu pandemic that will see more people vaccinated than was originally planned. Provisions are in place to vaccinate nearly one million people against the H1N1 virus, the minister of health, Dana Jurásková, said on Thursday. Almost 100,000 doses have already been delivered to the Czech Republic, with vaccinations due to begin at the start of next week. The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the country now stands at around 650. The chief hygiene officer, Michael Vít, says the Czech Republic is likely to see a swine flu epidemic at the start of next month.
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11/19/2009
Police are investigating an ongoing project to reconstruct part of the famous Prague landmark Charles Bridge. A preservationists group called ASKORD last month filed charges over how the reconstruction job is being carried out; they say police have begun questioning witnesses in connection with the matter. ASKORD believe that insufficient research was conducted before the project to renovate the upper parts of Charles Bridge began in 2007, and have also complained that the work is being carried poorly. The conservation association said after they contacted UNESCO in connection with the reconstruction, the UN body called on the Czech ambassador to the organisation to explain what was going on. The bridge is partly closed, though crossable, at the moment, with work due to come to an end next year.
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11/19/2009
An invitation for controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders to show his anti-Islamist film Finta at the Czech Senate has been cancelled. Chairman Přemysl Sobotka had called on the Senate’s media committee to bar Mr Wilders’ appearance, saying otherwise it would have been blocked by the upper house’s organisational committee. The invitation had been issued by Civic Democrat senator Jiří Oberfalzer, who has refused to comment on the barring of the Dutch politician. Mr Oberfalzer’s party on Thursday issued a statement saying Geert Wilders’ opinions were fundamentally at odds with the values they espoused. Mr Wilders, the leader of the Netherlands’ Party for Freedom, says Islam is a threat to Europe’s freedom; like Jiří Oberfalzer, he is a Eurosceptic.
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11/19/2009
A Brno man who brutally killed a man and raped his girlfriend has been sentenced to life in prison. Radim Odehnal met the couple in a pub in April this year and invited them to spend the night at his home in the Brno district of Komárov. When the man became angered by Odehnal making sexual advances towards his girlfriend, the latter stabbed and beat him to death. He then cut up the victim’s body before burning it on a fire in the courtyard of his apartment building. Odehnal then repeatedly raped the woman, and was evidently planning to murder her too before she managed to escape.
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