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03/25/2024
The ruins of a demolished section of the village of Lednice in South Moravia were uncovered during research in the gardens of the famous Lednice Castle. The discovery was made by archeologists from the firm Archaia Brno.
The head of the dig, Miroslav Dejmal, said it was widely known that part of today’s castle gardens were located on the site of former sections of the village that were destroyed.
Johann II, Prince of Lichtenstein purchased that area in the 1880s before having the gardens expanded.
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03/25/2024
Josef Středula is set to stay on as head of Czechia’s biggest trade union umbrella organisation. He lost the post three weeks ago for not paying union dues but was re-elected at an extraordinary congress in Prague on Monday.
Mr. Středula, who is 56, received 64 of 112 votes, which some officials told the Czech News Agency was a weak mandate.
The Czech Confederation of Trade Unions comprises 31 unions and has a total of over a quarter of a million members.
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03/25/2024
Czech Senate speaker Miloš Vystrčil says Prague could again play host to a Belarusian government in exile, a century after the last time it served that role.
He made the comment at a memorial ceremony at the city’s Olšany Cemetery, where he and Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya paid tribute to the memory of two Belarusian presidents-in-exile who served in the Czech capital in the first half of the last century, following the occupation of their country by Bolshevik Russia.
Ms. Tsikhanouskaya had earlier attended the opening of an Office of Democratic Forces of Belarus in Prague during a visit that was also due to see her meet other senior Czech officials.
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03/25/2024
An 84-year-old woman in the Chrudim area, East Bohemia, has died with whooping cough, becoming the second person to do so in Czechia this year. The woman had been hospitalised with double pneumonia and other problems from March 8 and died on March 14.
Health officials said on Monday that over 1,100 new cases of whooping cough had been recorded in the last week.
This brings the total number of registered cases of the respiratory disease to more than 4,200 this year.
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03/25/2024
It should be mainly overcast in Czechia on Tuesday, with an average high temperature of 13 degrees Celsius. The following days are expected to have similar weather.
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03/25/2024
The health state of former Czech president Miloš Zeman remains stablilised and is slowly improving, officials at Prague’s Motol hospital said on Monday. Mr. Zeman recently required surgery to deal with a blood clot on his leg.
Doctors say that the former head of state, who is 79, is unlikely to be released in the immediate future.
Mr. Zeman, who drank and smoked heavily, has suffered from ill health, including diabetes, and uses a wheelchair.
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03/25/2024
Czech tennis player Tomáš Macháč has advanced to the fourth round in Miami, after defeating former World No. 1 Andy Murray 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 on Sunday. The 23-year-old Czech won after three hours and 28 minutes, marking the third-longest best-of-three Miami men’s singles match on record.
The Czech world No. 60, who advanced to the fourth round of an ATP Masters 1000 for the first time, will next meet Italian Matteo Arnaldi, who defeated Denis Shapovalov earlier in the day.
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03/25/2024
An extraordinary convention of the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (ČMKOS) is being held in Prague on Monday, where trade unionists are expected to elect their chairman and vice-chairman.
Josef Středula, who recently quit the leadership of the union due to not having paid his union membership fees, is the only candidate for the post. He has been leading the national confederation since 2014.
With 31 unions and about 270,000 members, the ČMKOS is the largest trade union headquarters in the country. 14 unions, including the largest one KOVO, nominated Středula for the chairmanship.
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03/24/2024
Several dozen people gathered outside the Regional Court in Brno on Sunday to protest the court’s ruling in the case of the death of a Romany man at the Brno dam last year. Earlier this week, the court acquitted a Ukrainian national of charges of manslaughter, ruling that he 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.
If it were the other way around, no one would recognize it as necessary defence, said one of the Romani protesters.
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03/24/2024
Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who is on a four-day visit to Prague, is due to unveil a memorial plaque to physician Frantisek Skorina on Old Town Square. Skorina’s translation of the Bible was printed in Prague in 1517 as the first Belarusian book.
On Monday, Mrs. Tsikhanouskaya will attend the opening of the Belarusian Democratic Forces office in Prague and a special screening of the documentary ‘An Accidental President” at the One World festival, her personal and political portrait. Concluding her visit on Tuesday, Tsikhanouskaya is scheduled to meet with top Czech politicians.
The opposition leader has been living in exile in Lithuania, where she fled shortly after running in the 2020 presidential election against Alexander Lukashenko, who was contentiously declared the victor. Her husband, blogger Sjarhei Cichanouski, was sentenced to 18 years in prison last year for organizing demonstrations against the Lukashenko regime.
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