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08/12/2008
Over three hundred people protested outside the Russian Embassy in Prague on Tuesday in reaction to Moscow’s decision to launch military operations in Georgia. The protesters, mostly Georgians living in Prague, said they were also demonstrating about the Russian press’s portrayal of the clashes. On Tuesday morning, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered an end to Russian military operations in the region. He said that security had been restored for civilians living in the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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08/12/2008
In related news, the Czech Foreign Ministry has said that it will send a plane full of medical aid to Georgia on Wednesday. Ministry spokesperson Zuzana Opletalová said that the plane would contain first aid kits and other medical materials to the value of two million crowns (125,000 USD). In addition, the Foreign Ministry has pledged a further five million crowns in humanitarian aid to the region. The plane, which will touch down in neighbouring Armenia on Wednesday, will escort a further 25 Czechs back from the Caucuses. Some 50 Czechs returned home from Georgia on Monday, after fighting broke out.
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08/12/2008
Russian oil deliveries to the Czech Republic through the Druzhba pipeline have again fallen below their normal level. The pipeline’s Czech operator insists, however, that similar shortfalls have occured in the past. Russian oil deliveries fell considerably in July after the Czech Republic signed a bilateral agreement with the United States, giving the green light to a US radar base on Czech soil. Moscow was firmly opposed to the agreement, but insisted that the coinciding shortfall in oil deliveries was unrelated to the treaty’s signing. After a period of returning to normal, oil deliveries through the Druzhba pipeline have again fallen to below average. A spokesperson for MERO, the Czech firm operating the pipeline, said that the current shortfall ‘could not be labeled as extraordinary’.
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08/12/2008
The Czech Republic’s current account stood 27 billion crowns (1.67 billion USD) in deficit at the end of June, the Czech National Bank announced on Tuesday. At the end of May, the current account deficit stood at 11.7 billion crowns. Both trade and services posted a surplus in June, but the deficit in income was a massive 53.4 billion crowns.
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08/12/2008
Also on Tuesday, the national bank said that it expects less than a fifth of the Czech Republic’s 50 heller pieces to be returned by August 31, when the coin is withdrawn from circulation. There are currently 427 million of the coins in use in the Czech Republic. The coin is being withdrawn because of a fall in its value – it is now worth around 3 US cents. The 20 crown banknote is also being withdrawn at the end of August this year.
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08/12/2008
Architect Jan Kaplický’s design for a new Czech National Library building may never be built on Prague’s Letná plain, but on Tuesday, the architect unveiled plans for a new concert hall in České Budějovice. The Antonín Dvořák Concert Hall is set to be one of the finest in the country, with acoustics similar to those of the Berliner Philharmonie, project managers said. Funds for the project are yet to be fully raised, but it is thought that construction could get underway by 2010. London-based Czech architect Jan Kaplický is currently most famous in the Czech Republic for his designs for a new National Library building, which have divided politicians, and which have been shelved amid controversy for the indefinite future.
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08/12/2008
Veteran Czech pentathlete Libor Capalini, a bronze medalist in the modern pentathlon at the 2004 Athens Games, has pulled out of the Beijing Olympics because of an Achilles tendon injury, his coach Jakub Kučera said on Tuesday. The thirty-five year old will be replaced in the event by Michal Michalík, who finished sixth in Athens. The pentathlon consists of shooting, fencing, swimming, showjumping and running. This year’s Olympic title is expected to be a battle between Russia’s Ilya Frolov, Czech David Svoboda and Igor Lapo of Belarus.
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08/11/2008
The Czech Constitutional Court will reopen the case against Ludmila Brožová-Polednová, a former prosecutor who took part in the 1950s communist show trial of Milada Horáková. The court has dismissed a complaint by Mrs Brožová-Polednová, now aged 86, against the continuation of her trial. The High Court in Prague in February halted the prosecution, but the Supreme Court has cancelled the verdict and ordered new proceedings, which are scheduled to start in September. Milada Horáková, a lawyer and politician, is the only woman to have been executed during Czechoslovakia's 1950s show trials.
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08/11/2008
People who were injured in Friday’s Eurocity train accident and relatives of the victims have applied for financial compensation from Czech Railways, the news website Novinky.cz reported. A total of seven people were killed and about 70 injured in the crash near the city of Ostrava in what is the country’s worst train accident in 13 years. 25 people remain hospitalised; one of them is reported to be in serious condition.
Czech Railways on Saturday announced that the closest relative of each victim will receive 240,000 crown. The cause of the accident is being investigated. Meanwhile, Czech Railways has restored a limited service along two tracks adjacent to the one on which the accident took place.
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08/11/2008
A meeting of neo-Nazis is scheduled to take place in the east Bohemian town of Hradec Králové on Saturday, marking the death of Rudolf Hesse. Around 300 to 400 people are expected to gather at the Hradec Králové train station to attend a concert and a political meeting. The exact location of the event has not been specified. The police are expected to be out in force for the event.
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