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08/01/2007
A vote to choose the next president of the Czech Republic should begin on February 7 or 8 next year, the chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, Miloslav Vlcek, said on Wednesday. Those dates are at the start of the period set for the vote by the Czech constitution. Speaking after talks with the present president, Vaclav Klaus, Mr Vlcek said, however, that a concrete date had not yet been agreed. President Klaus, who is 66, plans to stand for re-election; no other candidates have yet been declared.
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08/01/2007
Two Czech internet portals are joining forces to fight against the growing influence of Google, Hospodarske noviny reported. Seznam and Atlas are combining their search engines to combat the American giant, which now has 15 percent of the Czech search market, after launching Google.cz last year.
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08/01/2007
The Czech Republic's second city Brno is planning to hold regular festivals dedicated to the composer Leos Janacek, starting in 2008. The city's National Theatre will organise the new bi-annual festival. However, it is not the first Janacek's Brno; that was held in 2004 to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the composer, who spent much of his life in the Moravian capital.
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08/01/2007
Prague's Grobe Villa is set to reopen to the public after renovation with a vinobrani wine festival next month. The Prague 2 villa is surrounded by some of the only vineyards in the Czech capital. The beautiful building, which was completed in 1888, will mainly serve as a training centre for judges and lawyers, though it also contains a concert hall run by the Prague 2 local authority.
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08/01/2007
The Czech football international Jan Polak is leaving German club Nuremburg for the Belgian champions Anderlecht. Polak will join two other Czechs at the club, Daniel Zitka and Martin Kolar. The 26-year-old midfielder is set to sign with Anderlecht after a medical on Thursday.
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07/31/2007
Former Czech defence minister and current deputy minister for European affairs Jiri Sedivy will become NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, the Czech NATO Information Centre reported on Monday. Mr Sedivy, who has won in a six-month competition out of more than 20 candidates, will assume the post in September or October this year, becoming the highest ranking Czech official in NATO ever.
Speaking to the Czech News Agency, Mr Sedivy said his appointment was an acknowledgement of Czech politics as a whole, namely for example the successful foreign missions of the Czech military. He also made it clear that he wouldn't act as a representative of the Czech Republic, but as an employee of NATO's foreign office.
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07/31/2007
The main runway of Prague's Ruzyne Airport will be closed for three weeks in August. During the closure, workers will apply a special anti-skid layer on the surface of the runway. The first layer was laid during the regular upkeep in April; another shut-down is planned for autumn.
Meanwhile, all flights will be re-directed to a side runway. In the past, the redirection of planes has caused higher levels of noise pollution, especially in residential areas near the airport. Plans to build a new runway have been in question for some time, but have been delayed due to problems with land ownership.
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07/31/2007
The Czech Army has started a regular rotation of its soldiers at a military field hospital in Afghanistan. Nearly a hundred soldiers departed from Prague's Kbely military airport to Kabul to replace their colleagues who have been on mission since March. Along with medics, several members of the Czech chemical warfare unit also left on Tuesday.
Czech soldiers also operate in other parts of Afghanistan, ensuring security and stability of the areas. On Sunday, a Czech officer was shot and wounded in southern Afghanistan. After having received medical treatment at the site of the incident, he was taken to a British military hospital. On Monday, he was transferred to the Czech field hospital in Kabul and then later to the Czech Republic. His condition is reported to be stable.
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07/31/2007
The group of last 70 members of the 10th Czech contingent deployed within the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo have landed at Prague's Ruzyne Airport. The soldiers have been replaced with a new contingent that is to operate there until next January.
The Czech Republic has been participating in the Kosovo mission since 1999. The main task of the Czech troops is to maintain stability and democracy and pass greater responsibility to the local authorities. Some 440 soldiers take part in the mission, including 28 women.
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07/31/2007
The Czech ambassador to Washington, Petr Kolar, has said that some parts of the security bill recently passed by the American Senate don't make much sense. The bill, which may eventually lead to inclusion of the Czech Republic as well as other Central European countries in the visa-waiver programme, also introduces the duty to accept former citizens of the country for repatriation from the United States, even though they would not be their citizens. Speaking on Czech Radio on Monday, Mr Kolar described this as a difficult legal issue. The changes in the visa waiver programme still need to be signed by the U.S. President.
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