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10/12/2007
According to the Tyden internet server and other news sources, former Czech prime minister Stanislav Gross has sold shares in a Moravian energy company for an undisclosed sum, estimated by the daily Mlada Fronta Dnes at 100 million crowns (more than five million US dollars). The shares in the Moravia Energo company were bought by Slovak financier Pavol Krupa who has estimated their value at seven or eight times that price. Mr Gross reportedly acquired the shares - a 31 percent stake in the company - half a year ago. Earlier, an anti-corruption activist filed a criminal complaint against the former prime minister on the grounds Mr Gross could have abused information while a state representative. The Social Democrats, who Mr Gross headed, have also called for an explanation.
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10/12/2007
President Vaclav Klaus, who has publicly questioned the impact humans have on global warming, has released a statement admitting "surprise" at the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to former US vice-president and environmental activist Al Gore (awarded along with the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). This year's winners were officially announced on Friday. In his statement released by his office the Czech president indicated that the connections between Mr Gore's activities and world peace were "vague" and "not very clear". Mr Klaus, an economist known for sceptical views on global warming, recently published a book called "A Blue, not Green, Planet", which he has described as a counterweight to Al Gore's film on climate change "An Inconvenient Truth".
By contrast, on Friday, Czech environmental groups as well as Environment Minister Martin Bursik - the head of the Green Party -welcomed this year's Nobel Peace Prize decision.
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10/12/2007
The Supreme Court will reopen a 57-year-old case involving 74-year-old Cyril Mihalica, found guilty under the communist regime. He was sentenced to three years in prison for setting fire to an agricultural stack during the period of forced collectivisation in the early 1950s. Mr Mihalica has defended his actions - and sought full exoneration - ever since the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia. He has said his was a political act aimed at morally boosting the public against the communist regime. He says his trial which ensued in the 1950s was also politically motivated. At the time of the incident Mr Mihalica was just 17 and was part of a group of fifteen who wanted to use small acts of sabotage against the communist regime. Mr Mihalica was the only one uncovered in the ensuing investigation by the communist police.
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10/12/2007
Preparations are underway for a visit by Princess Anne, due to arrive in the Czech Republic on Sunday. The princess will arrive in Pardubice, east Bohemia aboard, a Royal Air Force aircraft used by the British Royal family. Her schedule will include a visit to the 117th Grand Pardubice steeple chase, where she will present the prize to the winner. The princess, who is the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, is also scheduled to meet President Vaclav Klaus and Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, as well as to visit schools and charity organisations. She will also be a guest of the presidential couple at Prague Castle, where a dinner, attended by Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and others, will be held in her honour.
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10/12/2007
After a weaker start, Czech ice hockey goalie Tomas Vokoun helped his team the Florida Panthers to their first victory in the new NHL season. Vokoun stopped all 29 shots by the New Jersey Devils on Thursday, earning the 22nd shutout of his career. Czech Rostislav Olesz scored the game's opening goal, assisted by compatriot Radek Dvorak. The Panthers ended up winning the game 3:0.
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10/11/2007
The Czech National Library has halted preparations for a new library building designed by Czech-born architect Jan Kaplicky. The library's director Vlastimil Jezek made the decision in response to growing opposition from city councilors for the Civic Democratic Party. The project's opponents have a majority in Prague City Hall and could easily outvote the opposition. The council is due to vote on the new library building early next year. Kaplicky, who is recognized around the world for his highly-avante garde designs, expressed disillusionment with the situation.
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10/11/2007
The Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal by a father who has fought a 16-year-long battle to be allowed to see his son. The court upheld an earlier ruling by the Prague Court according to which Vaclav Kriz was only allowed to write to his son. The boy has been caught in a tug of war between his parents for 16 years and Kriz says he does not believe that he will be able to have regular contact with his child before his eighteenth birthday, when he will officially come of age. The judge said that the ruling of the Prague Court was fully justified in view of the testimonies presented, including a detailed report by a psychologist.
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10/11/2007
Czech public television has threatened champions Sparta Prague with a ban unless they put a stop to anti-Semitic slogans being brandished by groups of their fans during matches. During the last match, on Monday, a certain section of the clubs fans unfurled a banner aimed at Sparta's bitter city rivals Slavia Prague which contained the word "Jude" - German for Jew - while the fans chanted the same word. Czech TV swung its camera away and cut the sound from its live transmission and it has now said that any repeat incident will result in a ban from its airwaves.
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10/11/2007
Central and East European leaders voiced anxiety on Thursday over Russia's use of its massive energy resources to enforce its foreign policy goals and called for efforts to diversify their sources supply. Unjust manipulation or interruption of energy supplies is as much a security threat as is military action," Czech Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Alexandr Vondra said at a conference in Vilnius involving the presidents of six countries. Participants backed closer cooperation between Europe, the United States, the Caspian and the Black Sea regions to bring energy from Central Asia and the South Caucasus to Europe. They agreed this was "crucial for reliable and diverse energy flows into the European Union". Russia is the source of a quarter of Europe's gas.
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10/11/2007
Former education minister Dana Kuchtova has criticized the fact that the candidate whose name she put forward as her successor in office had been peremptorily rejected by Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek. The prime minister said on Wednesday he would not accept Dusan Luzny as a possible candidate because he was co-responsible for the managerial mistakes made by the former minister Kuchtova. Dusan Luzny is a member of the Green Party and its leadership approved his candidacy at a party conference last weekend. Observers say that a new minister must be chosen without delay if the ministry is to have any chance of salvaging its share of EU finds.
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