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11/15/2007
The Czech Republic has offered to train helicopter pilots from Afghanistan. The chief of staff of the Czech Army, Vlastimil Picek, made the offer at a NATO military committee meeting in Brussels on Thursday, the website iDnes reported. However, no concrete date for any such training programme has been set. The Czech Republic is planning to increase its military presence in Afghanistan from 224 soldiers to 415, with a provincial reconstruction team due to be sent to the war-torn state in spring of next year.
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11/15/2007
Czech and American armed guards will continue to be deployed on planes flying between the Czech Republic and the United States. A memorandum to that effect was signed on Thursday by US representatives and the director of the Czech foreigners and border police service, Jindrich Urban. The Czech police say signing it is one condition for the removal of visa requirements for Czechs wishing to visit the US. America’s ambassador to the Czech Republic, Richard Graber, has said Czech citizens should be included in his country’s visa waiver programme within one to two years.
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11/15/2007
The minister of industry and trade, Martin Riman, has strongly denied press reports that he is preparing a bill aimed at providing the secret services with easier access to data at the disposal of internet and telephone operators. On Thursday the newspaper Pravo said that the bill would allow both the counter-intelligence and military intelligence to monitor information on phone and internet communication. However, a spokesperson for Mr Riman said the minister had always been opposed to broadening the powers of the security services to the detriment of citizens’ privacy.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade took over the bailiwick of telecommunications following the abolition of a short-lived ministry of information technology.
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11/15/2007
Customs officers seized over three quarters of a million smuggled cigarettes in a raid in the Liberec region on Thursday. The cigarettes either had Ukrainian duty stamps or none at all, said a spokesperson for the north Bohemian customs police. After apprehending a man at the border with over 10,000 cigarettes hidden in his car, the police uncovered almost 40,000 cartons of smuggled cigarettes in a search of his home.
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11/15/2007
The prestigious Jindrich Chalupecky Award for young Czech artists has been won by Eva Kotakova. The artist, who is 25, combines performance with sculpture; she was selected from a short-list of five artists under the age of 35. The Chalupecky award includes a six-week stay in New York and a cash prize totalling CZK 150,000. The work of Kotakova and the four other short-listed artists is currently on show at galleries around Prague.
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11/15/2007
Football clubs in England, Germany and Spain are interested in signing the Czech striker Milan Baros, his agent Pavel Paska told reporters. Baros is not a regular first team player for France’s Olympic Lyon and could leave the club during the transfer window in January. The 26-year-old had spells at Liverpool and Aston Villa before joining Lyon at the beginning of this year.
Baros is currently in Prague with the rest of the Czech squad, preparing for a European Championship qualifying game against Slovakia. The Czechs have already reached Euro 2008.
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11/14/2007
The Christian Democratic Party has decided to appoint the head of the Government Legislative Council Cyril Svoboda as a temporary head of the Local Development Ministry. Mr Svoboda would remain in the post, until the party finds a successor to Jiri Cunek, who resigned last week. The Christian Democrats have a number of candidates for the post, including first deputy local development minister Jiri Vackar.
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11/14/2007
Members of the Czech branch of Greenpeace gathered outside the Czech Government Office on Wednesday morning to stage a scene mocking the government’s approach to the U.S. plan to build radar on Czech territory as part of a broader missile defense system. The event opened a Greenpeace campaign presenting the organisation’s view on the U.S. project. The radar base, to complement a missile base in neighbouring Poland, is to be positioned in the Brdy military area some 90 km southwest of Prague. The Czech government is currently negotiating with the U.S. - a final decision is to be taken next year.
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11/14/2007
A unique exhibition on the life and era of Czech nobleman, politician and army commander Albrecht of Wallenstein is set to open at the site of the Wallenstein Riding School on the grounds of the Czech Senate. The exhibition, marking the 425th anniversary of Wallenstein’s birth, includes never-before publicly viewed pieces from his period. The show, organized by the Military Historical Institute and the National Museum, will be held into 2008.
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11/14/2007
Prague’s Speaker’s Corner on Palacky Square in the city centre, where protestors need no formal license or permission to gather, will be moved elsewhere. Prague City Hall has begun negotiations with local authorities on relocating the site, arguing that possible meetings could cause traffic disruptions in the city. This Saturday, right-wing extremists are to gather on Palacky Square in reaction to their failure to march through Prague’s Jewish quarter last weekend.
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