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07/15/2008
Czech-Slovak produced film Bathory went straight to the top of the box office charts in the Czech Republic following its release last week, its distributor said. The movie by Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko is about the 16th century countess Elisabeth Bathory, who is sometimes described as the greatest female mass murderer who ever lived. Over 75,000 Czech viewers saw it on its opening weekend, the highest number for any film this year. Bathory’s budget of CZK 320 million (USD 22) makes it the most expensive film ever produced in the Czech Republic or Slovakia.
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07/15/2008
The great American jazz guitarist John Scofield played a concert on Prague’s Old Town Square on Monday night. Scofield, playing his only show in Europe this year, told the 5,000 fans in attendance that he had heard about Prague decades ago from Czech musicians Miroslav Vitouš, George Mraz and Jan Hammer. The concert was part of the annual Bohemia Jazz Festival which features different Czech, Slovak and international musicians on different nights; after a second show in Prague on Tuesday night it travels to a number of other towns and cities.
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07/14/2008
Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek confirmed on Monday that neither Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg nor Deputy Prime Minister Jiří Čunek were going to leave his government over the issue of Mr Čunek’s personal finances. An audit of Minister Čunek’s finances, commissioned by Foreign Minister Schwarzenberg and carried out by the US investigation agency Kroll, did not substantiate charges of alleged corruption, PM Topolánek said. Jiří Čunek was accused of taking bribes in 2007. His case was later shelved for lack of evidence by the prosecution but doubts over the case remained and made Foreign Minister Schwarzenberg commission a private probe into his finances.
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07/14/2008
Russia announced on Monday that a sharp cut in deliveries of crude oil for the Czech Republic was caused by technical problems. Russian trade envoy to Prague Grigori Sarishvili told Czech Trade and Industry Minister Martin Říman that the decrease in deliveries of crude oil for the Czech Republic happened because of problems with oil extraction as well as of changes to the structure of Russian oil companies, rather than by a political decision in retaliation for last week’s signing of a Czech-American treaty on positioning a US tracking radar base on Czech territory.
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07/14/2008
Several former Czech dissidents and politicians expressed their sympathies over the death of Poland’s Bronislaw Geremek, an anticommunist dissident and one of the founders of the Solidarity movement, who died in a car crash on Sunday. Former Czech President Václav Havel said that “Geremek’s death is not only a loss for Poland, but for all of us who strive for a free and decent world”. Former Czech dissident and later the first post-communist foreign minister of Czechoslovakia Jiří Dienstbier said that Mr Geremek was “a great personality who understood very well what needed to be done to rid Poland of various burdens of its nationalist past and to become a prominent and active member of the European family”. Czech European Affairs Minister Alexander Vondra said he was profoundly shaken by Mr Geremek’s death and that it was a great loss for Europe.
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07/14/2008
A poll by the Eurobarometer agency suggested on Monday that most Czechs don’t think their voice is heard in the European Union. According to the poll, 82 percent of Czechs are generally satisfied with their lives, which is five percent more than the EU average. Some 39 percent of Czechs are concerned about health care, while 38 percent about inflation and rising prices of goods. Fifty-three percent of Czechs also favour the adoption of euro in the country. While satisfaction of Czechs with their lives has been stable in the last three years, the number of people who consider unemployment a serious problem dropped from 54 percent in 2004 to the current 12.
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07/14/2008
The prices of petrol and diesel have dropped slightly in the past week, the Czech petrol seller CCS said on Monday. While the average price of petrol dropped by 6 hallers to 32.54 crowns, or 2.21 US dollars, per litre in the Czech Republic, the average price of diesel decreased by 5 hallers to 34.85, or 2.38 US dollars, crowns per litre. Analysts cite the strengthening crown against the US dollar as the main factor behind the drop, and expect fuel prices to keep decreasing in the coming weeks.
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07/14/2008
Creamfields Central Europe, an open air dance music festival that took place near Břeclav, South Moravia over the weekend, was hit by a sudden storm on Saturday night. The two main stages collapsed and a DJ suffered light injuries as a result. The storm, which lasted for some two hours, made the majority of the 7,000 or so visitors leave the venue and also marred many of the performances. The organizers said they lost millions of crowns in consequence.
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07/14/2008
A strike by Hungarian railway workers which began at midnight on Sunday has affected several trains passing through the Czech Republic. Most trains with destinations in Hungary will terminate in Slovakia, a spokesperson for Czech Railways said on Monday, while Czech-bound trains leaving from Hungary will be dispatched from Slovakia. It is not clear when the Hungarian railway strike will end.
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07/14/2008
The police are still looking into the case of former nurse Petr Zelenka, who was found guilty of seven murders and sentenced to life in prison earlier this year, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Monday. The police are trying to establish whether he killed or attempted to kill more patients at a hospital in Havlíčkův Brod, eastern Bohemia, by giving them lethal doses of a blood-thinning drug.
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