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10/30/2007
Prime Ministr Mirek Topolanek has promised Czech prisons more money in the coming year. On a visit to the Plzen-Bory prison on Tuesday the PM said Czech prisons could be given 100 million crowns more in 2008, getting a total of 440 million. Prison authorities say, however, that Czech prisons would need investments worth billions of crowns to reach European standards. Prison facilities are overcrowded and government officials are considering the introduction of alternative punishments.
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10/30/2007
The Russian airline Aeroflot is interested in Czech Airlines, head of the company Valery Okulov said in remarks published Tuesday. He said Aeroflot had already had preliminary talks on taking part in Czech Airlines' privatisation but the Czech government had not as yet set the terms for a final sale. The Czech government holds 100 percent of the airline, which is part of the same Skyteam airline alliance as Aeroflot.
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10/30/2007
Czech football star Milan Baros has found himself at the centre of a highly-publicized row in the centre right Civic Democratic Party over who promised his football academy a hefty grant following his help campaigning in the elections. The Lyon-based striker actively supported the Civic Democrats in the June 2006 elections, taking part in rallies and appearing on billboards across the country. Following the party's election win he asked for a 10 million crown grant (540,000 US dollars) for his football academy in the east of the country. His application was not successful and there is now a furious row about who actually led him to believe that the cash would be forthcoming.
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10/29/2007
A group of far-right activists insists on marching through Prague's Jewish Quarter on November 10, the anniversary of the anti-Jewish Nazi pogrom of 1938, known as Kristallnacht. The pretext for the march is a protest against Czech involvement in the occupation of Iraq. Prague City Hall had previously tried to ban the march but a court ruled that the ban was poorly justified. Last week, the local authorities said that the announcement of the march was not valid due to formal errors and the planned venue for the march was immediately booked by a Prague Jewish community for commemorative gathering.
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10/29/2007
One of the most serious crimes of the Czechoslovak communist era, the liquidation of the Czech farm-owners in 1950s, is to be prosecuted in court. Jan Srb, spokesperson f or the Office for the Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism, says the agency must first determine whether those responsible are still alive. According to Mr Srb, the crimes against peasants constituted genocide because they were directed against a certain group of people.
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10/29/2007
The archaeological site in Mikulcice, South Moravia, has applied to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The site features a stronghold from the period of the Great Moravian Empire that existed in the 9th and 10th centuries AD, and was the centre of one of the first state formations in the Czech territory. Mikulcice submitted a joint application with the Slovak locality of Kopcany, which lies just across the Morava River, and is famous for the oldest church in Central Europe. The evaluation process to determine whether the site will enter the UNESCO list will start next year.
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10/29/2007
Czech President Vaclav Klaus said in his address on the 89th anniversary of the foundation of independent Czechoslovakia in Prague on Sunday that the Czech Republic should defend its interests more. In relation to neighbouring countries, Mr Klaus said that the Czech Republic needs to use nuclear energy, which should be explained to Austria in a friendly but firm manner. He also mentioned that reopening the debate in Germany on the post-war arrangement of Central Europe is unacceptable. In other passages of his anniversary address, Vaclav Klaus said that while Europe is the most natural cultural and civilization background for the Czech Republic, it does not, and cannot, replace Czech statehood.
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10/29/2007
The Czech air carrier CSA announced on Monday that it will launch its first long-distance cargo flight to Hong-Kong with a stopover in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. CSA will share the flight with Emirates SkyCargo, the freight service of Emirates Airline. The first flight on the route will happen on November 9.
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10/29/2007
Almost a half of 400 million crowns, or more than 21 million US dollars, from EU Phare fund that was meant to boost small-scale businesses in the Czech Republic in 1994 were used inappropriately, according to the Czech Regional Development Ministry. The money was instead used for administrative tasks. Regional Development Minister Jiri Cunek said on Monday that the misused funds will be reimbursed by the government that will also revive the programme.
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10/29/2007
The Czech government has authorized Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek to negotiate with Libyan authorities about the debt of the Mediterranean country to the Czech Republic. The total amount Libya owes is classified; the total Libyan debt to former Czechoslovakia was 7.6 billion crowns, or more than 400 million US dollars. A possible settlement deal between the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Libya should also involve compensation for the families of Libyan children allegedly infected with HIV by Bulgarian nurses.
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