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05/18/2008
A still-life by French painter Georges Braque called The Green Basin (1942) was sold in auction in Prague on Sunday for 11.5 million crowns (the equivalent of around 716,000 US dollars). The price is the 5th highest ever paid for a work of art in a Czech auction house. The record belongs to Elevation, a work by Czech painter Frantíšek Kupka, which sold for 22.1 million crowns in October.
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05/18/2008
Hundreds of fans of horror and so-called zombie flicks took part in Prague’s first-ever “Zombiewalk” on Saturday. Those taking part put on make-up and costumes for a short parade from the Old Town to Prague’s Wenceslas Square. The event drew on similar parades in other parts of Europe as well as North America. The largest such event took place last year at the Monroeville Mall in Pittsburgh, where director George A. Romero shot one of the most famous zombie pictures, Dawn of the Dead.
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05/18/2008
Football’s Slavia Prague drew in their last season game on Saturday to be crowned league champions. The team tied 2:2 against Jablonec. Slavia had not won the title since 1996. Defending champions Sparta Prague, meanwhile, finished in second place, three points behind. On Saturday the team lost 4:3 to Slovan Liberec.
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05/18/2008
English Premiership side Portsmouth have defeated Cardiff City 1:0 to win this year’s FA Cup. The game took place at London’s Wembley Stadium. Czech striker Milan Baroš – on loan from Lyon – took to the field for Portmouth in the game’s final minutes. Baroš has now played in 16 matches for the side. Along with winning the FA Cup, Baroš was also part of the Liverpool squad which won the Champions League in 2005.
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05/18/2008
The Dallas Stars have won back-to-back games against the Detroit Red Wings to get back into their semi-final series in hockey’s Stanley Cup playoffs. On Saturday Dallas won 2-1 in Detroit. Red Wings’ centre Jiří Hudler scored Detroit’s lone goal. The Red Wings retain a 3-2 edge in the best-of-seven series; Game 6 will now take place in Dallas.
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05/17/2008
The first part of a Czech reserve company, 60 out of a total 116 soldiers, has departed for Kosovo. The remaining members will rejoin the unit on Sunday. The unit is returning to the Balkans after a two-month break. Czech soldiers were called upon in March at the request of multinational peacekeeping forces to help maintain security after Kosovo declared independence. The Czech Republic has more than 400 soldiers in Kosovo, traditionally based in the northeast of the former Serb province as part of the KFOR mission since 1999. The Czech Republic has otherwise not recognised Kosovo’s independence although Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg has indicated the country will eventually do so.
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05/17/2008
Delegates have been gathering in Hradec Králové for the Communist Party’s congress, aimed at addressing the party’s future as well as electing its leader. Current party head Vojtěch Filip spoke on Saturday, slamming other parliamentary parties on both the political left and right. Ties between the Communists and the Social Democrats, for example, have cooled since the parties failed to agree on a strategy to block the re-election of Czech President Václav Klaus. Mr Filip suggested the Communists needed to be more aggressive, a so-called “pike” in political waters. Mr Filip is being challenged for the post of party leader by three opponents including Euro MP Miloslav Ransdorf. He is expected to retain the chairmanship.
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05/17/2008
Staff at the National Cemetery in Terezín have been replacing bronze plaques stolen from the site last month. The director of the Terezín memorial said on Saturday that so far more than 100 resin plaques honouring victims of the Gestapo prison and ghetto in Terezín during World War II had been put up. Unlike the earlier bronze plates, the new resin models will not attract scrap metal thieves. More than 800 bronze plates were stolen in April resulting in 2.5 million crowns in damages. Earlier this week the culture ministry said would provide funds for the installation of a camera system at the cemetery as well as patrols.
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05/17/2008
Czech Radio held an Open Doors Day at its main headquarters in Prague on Saturday, allowing visitors to get a “behind-the-scenes” look at production studios and other facilities used by the radio’s flagship Radiožurnál (Radiojournal) as well as other stations including Radio Prague - the international service of Czech Radio. This Sunday, May 18th, marks an important milestone for the public broadcaster: it was 85 years ago that, following the UK, Czechoslovakia became the second country in Europe to offer regular broadcasts. Its first broadcast went out at 8:15 pm from a military tent in Prague-Kbely. It featured musical performances as well as the spoken-word.
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05/17/2008
Some 600 customs officers launched a major operation at one of the largest markets in western Bohemia on Saturday, checking mainly for the sale of illegal tobacco products. Officers searched 450 stands at the market, known as Svatý Kříž, and also ran searches on cars and nearby containers. Recent operations uncovered a secret factory capable of producing 2,500 fake-brand cigarettes per minute, representing unpaid taxes of 134 million crowns (the equivalent of around 8 million US dollars).
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