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10/26/2007
A Czech aid worker was detained in Chechnya on Thursday on charges of fraud, AP reported. Hana Demeterova was taken into custody in the capital Grozny, said an official from Russia's Federal Migration Service; he said she suspected of fraud but refused to specify the charges. The Czech Foreign Ministry in Prague told AP it had no information on the detention.
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10/26/2007
A new shopping centre has opened on Prague's Namesti Republiky square, a short walk from the bottom of Wenceslas Square. The Palladium centre is built on the site of a former army barracks and the developers have succeeded in preserving much of the original façade and working around a small church on the square. Palladium features over 170 shops and around two dozen restaurants.
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10/26/2007
Sparta Prague lost 2:1 at home to Zurich in their first game in the group stage of the UEFA Cup, Europe's second-tier international club competition. Sparta went ahead through Miroslav Slepicka after 24 minutes, before the Swiss side equalised in the 38th minute and scored the eventual winner just after the hour mark. It has been a relatively poor start to the season for Sparta and fans expressed their frustration after the game with calls for the removal of manager Michal Bilek.
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10/26/2007
The Czech pop singer Aneta Langerova finished her latest tour with a big show at Prague's T-Mobile Arena on Thursday night. The tour, in support of her second album Dotyk, took her to 11 cities around the Czech Republic. Aneta Langerova shot to fame after winning the first series of the Czech version of Pop Idol; since then the singer has established herself as one of the country's most successful and acclaimed young musicians.
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10/25/2007
The fugitive Czech-born businessman Viktor Kozeny has been released by a court in the Bahamas, after a United States request for his extradition was rejected, the Novinky website reported. Mr Kozeny, nicknamed the Pirate of Prague, is wanted in the US in connection with large-scale fraud connected with a deal to buy out state ownership of the oil industry in Azerbaijan. He is also wanted in the Czech Republic for fraud linked to the 1990s "coupon" privatisation process. A lawyer for Mr Kozeny, Philip Davis, told The Bahama Journal that his client was now free to move about the Bahamas, just as he had done for thirteen years.
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10/25/2007
Russian inspectors might be able to check the assembly and operation of the U.S. radar base in Brdy military area, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek indicated in an interview for Czech Television. Mr Topolanek said that the cooperation would improve relations between US and Russia. He added, however, that no Russian soldiers will be permanently present at the base.
Earlier this week, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates mentioned the possibility of Russian presence at the Czech radar facility in order to overcome Russian hostility to its European anti-missile shield. He added that the agreement wouldn't be signed without Czech consent. The US offer to allow a Russian presence at the planned American radar base in the Czech Republic has been criticised by the Czech left-wing opposition as well as by number of government politicians.
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10/25/2007
Meanwhile, the former Czech president Vaclav Havel said no concessions should be made to Russia in the issue of the US missile defence shield in Europe, the German news DPA agency reported on Thursday. Mr Havel warned that Russia's interference in Central Europe was a sinister remnant of Cold War.
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10/25/2007
A memorial plaque was unveiled in Prague on Thursday afternoon in honour of the late journalist Pavel Tigrid, one of the most influential Czech personalities of the 20th century. The plaque will be mounted on the wall of the Old Jewish Cemetery, in the street where Mr Tigrid lived until his death in 2003. Among people attending the unveiling ceremony will be Czech President Vaclav Klaus, his predecessor Vaclav Havel and Tigrid's wife Ivana Tigridova.
Pavel Tigrid is best known for his work as a journalist and broadcaster in exile during the Cold War. He established and for a number of years headed the Czechoslovak section of Radio Free Europe. He subsequently moved to Paris, where he set up and published a magazine called Svedectvi (Witness). After the Velvet Revolution, Pavel Tigrid returned to Czechoslovakia where he worked as a Minister for Culture and later as an adviser to President Havel.
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10/25/2007
The foreign ministers of the Visegrad Four called on Thursday on Burma to release political prisoner, including dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg read out the statement to journalists. The foreign ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia also called on Burma to provide complete information on the fate of the Buddhist monks and democratic activists in connection with the recent repressive measures taken in the country.
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10/25/2007
An expert team made of architects, conservationists and lawyers was set up to look for a solution to the dispute over the planned construction of a new Czech national library building in Prague, designed by Czech-born British architect Jan Kaplicky. Prague's mayor Pavel Bem said the main task of the team will be to find a more suitable site for the library. The team is expected to arrive at a decision within two or three months.
The building, nicknamed "the Blob", was the winning entry in an international competition earlier this year. It has become the centre of heated debate after it came to light the project would be blocked by assembly members from the Civic Democratic Party at City Hall.
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