A crowdfunding campaign aiming to raise money for weapons for Ukraine has raised over CZK 670 million from more than 100,000 supporters since it was launched last month, according to the Czech Ministry of Defense. The campaign is coordinated by the Czech government with the money going to the Embassy of Ukraine in Prague. The proceeds are being used to buy weapons and other military supplies that Ukraine needs to defend itself from the Russian invasion, according to a statement from the Czech Ministry of Defence. The Czech government said it has made available CZK 413 million worth of military supplies that can be purchased with the money from the crowdfunding campaign. “Arms, military equipment and ammunitions urgently needed by the Ukrainian military and the Territorial Defense Force to fill depleted stockpiles are part of the offer,” the ministry said. “Heavy military systems and ammunitions of ‘Eastern’ design are under consideration for delivery to Ukraine as well. The Ministry of Defence has already sent about CZK 750 million worth of military aid to Ukraine, which is resisting Russian aggression, including ammunition, machine guns and anti-aircraft missiles. Czech legislators are also finalizing a bill to give Ukraine refugees 5,000 Czech crowns a...
Taiwan will donate 11.5 million dollars to the governments of five European Union states to help Ukrainians who have fled the war in their country, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said Tuesday. Of the total, 6.5 million dollars will be sent soon to the government of Poland, 500,000 dollars to Lithuania, and $1.5 million dollars each to Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Wu said at a donation ceremony at his ministry. The five governments will then distribute the funds to non-governmental organizations in their respective countries that are assisting Ukraine refugees, he said. The 11.5 million dollars in aid was announced one week after Taiwan’s foreign ministry pledged a donation of US$3.53 million to the Governmental Strategic Reserves Agency in Warsaw, which is providing aid to Ukrainian refugees in Poland. All the money Taiwan has pledged for Ukrainian refugees, so far, has been drawn from a government-designated fund, which has raised more than 21 million dollars in public donations and will remain open until April 1. Tuesday’s ceremony was attended by several members of the diplomatic corps in Taiwan, including the EU representative Filip Grzegorzewski, Cyryl Kozaczewski of Poland, Martin Podstavek of Slovakia, and Patrick Rumlar of the Czech Republic.
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs is planning to soon set up a representative office in the city of Uzhhorod in western Ukraine, which lies just a few kilometres from Slovakia. According to a new survey conducted by consultancy company PwC, Czech women earn around 20 percent less than men on average. Women are also less represented in leadership positions in companies. Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis is set to visit the Czech Republic on Thursday where he will meet with his Czech counterpart Jan Lipavský President Miloš Zeman signed the 2022 budget law on Tuesday, which was adopted last week with a deficit of CZK 280 billion. The labour minister warned Czech employers against abusing the plight of refugees saying that attempts to do so would be heavily sanctioned. He said a number of dubious offers had already been registered and reported.
All employed and self-employed individuals working in the Czech Republic pay 15% income tax on their earnings and they have the right to get their taxes back. The deadline for applying for a tax return in 2022 is the 1st of April. It doesn’t matter if you worked in the Czech Republic for 4 months as a foreigner or you live here several years, you still can get your money back. All you need is a Confirmation of taxable income (Potvrzení o zdanitelných příjmech). What is the confirmation of taxable income? This document is the annual summary which you will receive from your employer at the end of the financial tax year. It shows the total amount you earned from your employer as an income figure and it also displays the amount of tax your employer deducted from your earnings and paid to the tax office. If you did not get it from your employer, we can get the document for you. Extend the time to file your taxes If you’re worried that you can’t get your tax return done and properly filed on time or pay what you owe, you can enjoy some of the benefits of extension you...
Nine minutes, 53 seconds, orgasm. This is the average visit duration of the world’s biggest porn site XVideos. Every day millions upon millions of people visit this one place on the web that hardly anyone talks about. A secret giant. Ranked 10th most visited website in the world. Not even amazon.com gets this many clicks. Videos on XVideos are made available to the global public. Countless users reveal their erotic fantasies with their clicks. Who’s in charge of such a huge platform? Leading heads of Facebook, Google and Twitter give interviews. Whistleblowers expose their problems. But you don’t hear anything about XVideos, especially in Germany. And this despite the fact that many of the companies behind XVideos are located in the Czech Republic. The traces of the porn empire lead from Prague via France to Düsseldorf. Other porn platforms have been experiencing a wave of criticism and anger for almost two years. First and foremost Pornhub and xHamster, XVideos‘ most important competitors. Together, the three giants dominate the porn market. Pornhub and xHamster, for example, have distributed nude photos of people who never wanted to show themselves in public in this way. For a long time, the hurdles against the dissemination of sexualized violence were kept low. This was...
Through the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism, Czechia has requested assistance in providing accommodation for 50,000 refugees from Ukraine. According to Interior Minister Vít Rakušan, 25 modular bases need to be built. The Czech Interior Ministry itself has seven modular bases, each of which can accommodate 150 people. The state would use the modular accommodation as soon as the capacities in the gyms and other buildings run out, said Rakušan. According to him, the Czech Republic will exhaust all possible options in two to three weeks. “The state’s capacities are already exhausted, the country is getting into a state where it can only provide refugees with emergency shelter. People will have to stay in gyms, halls and the like, and their accommodation will not be comfortable. And if these capacities are exhausted, we will have to start building tent camps,” said Pavla Jakoubková, a spokeswoman for the General Directorate of Firefighters. According to the latest data, more than 102,000 refugees have been registered in Czechia since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, the realistic estimate of the number of refugees in Czechia approaches 200,000. Most people, about 30 percent, were registered in Prague. According to Jakoubková, the Ministry of...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. The Czech Republic has issued over 150,000 special visas to refugees fleeing from Ukraine faced with a Russian attack, 7,513 of them on Sunday alone, and Czech immigration police and assistance centres have registered almost 85,000 refugees. The first two trucks with prescription medicine, such as efficient painkillers and antibiotics, will leave the Czech Republic for Ukraine this week, after half a million packages worth over 10 million crowns were donated to it by the producers, Deputy Health Minister Jakub Dvoracek told CTK on Monday. Month-on-month, sales in retail (excluding motor vehicles) increased by 1.6% in January, including a 4.7% increase in fuels, 2.2% for non-food goods, and a slight decrease for food. Compared to last year, retail sales increased by 8.5%, of which sales of non-food goods increased by 14.8%, fuels by 7.8% and food by 0.4%. Airbnb and has announced an offer of free, short-term housing for up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine. These stays will be funded by Airbnb Inc., donors to the Airbnb.org Refugee Fund, and the generosity...
The Czech Republic will send more military aid to Ukraine, its defense minister said on Sunday, while neighboring Slovakia said it was considering sending an air defense system to the Kyiv government. Czech Defence Minister Jana Cernochova said her country had already sent at least 725 million crowns worth of military gear. “I think that we will at least double that,” she said during a television debate. She declined to go into further details on the shipments, citing security concerns. The Czech Republic said last month it had already shipped machine guns, assault rifles, ammunition and other unspecified arms to Ukraine. A Russian air strike on a Ukrainian military facility near the border with Poland on Sunday killed 35 people and wounded 134, a local Ukrainian official said – a development that appeared to move the conflict closer to NATO territory. The United States and its allies want to avoid NATO being drawn into the conflict, but have supplied Kyiv with military aid since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 in what Moscow calls a “special operation.” U.S. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin is due to visit Slovakia – which, like Poland, is a NATO member which borders Ukraine –...
RunCzech, the organizer of prestigious running events, decided to reduce the advertising campaign commemorating the anniversary of the legendary athlete Zátopek with the unfortunate letter Z due to the war in Ukraine. “A few weeks ago, we launched a campaign on social media and in the press to support the phenomenon of running by commemorating 100 years since the birth of Emil Zátopek and 70 years since winning his three Olympic gold medals,” explains Carlo Capalbo, president of RunCzech. The advertising campaign was created by leading creatives and counted on the gradual discovery of the entire message from the unfortunate letter Z to visuals with a running legend and messages like “This season is all about Z” or “RunCzech remember”. “Even though it is just a letter of the alphabet, which is supposed to remind a Czech phenomenal athlete, we do not want it to be associated with aggression and evoke unpleasant emotions,” adds Capalbo. This is a highly professional and visually successful campaign, which experts have been preparing since last summer. However, RunCzech understands that it must be adjusted immediately due to unforeseeable circumstances. RunCzech, which organizes, among others, the Volkswagen Prague Marathon and the Sportisimo Prague Half Marathon,...
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. The restriction of people’s visits to hospitals and social care facilities, previously imposed over the threat of coronavirus, will end in the Czech Republic as of Monday, as will the testing of hospital staff, based on the Health Ministry’s decision. The testing of unvaccinated employees of the facilities has been compulsory since November. The Czech the Chamber of Deputies passed a bill facilitating Ukrainian refugees’ access to the labour market, under which they will be able to work without a work permit, today. Their children may attend children’s groups. They will be also eligible for the humanitarian bonus of 5,000 crowns, also repeatedly. Over 81,000 Ukrainian refugees have been registered by the Czech migration police at assistance centres set up for that purpose in all the country’s regions. The total number of special visas handed out to Ukrainians reached more than 142,000 on Saturday. The Czech Republic has appealed for assistance under the EU Civil Protection Mechanism in providing accommodation for 50,000 refugees from Ukraine. The state’s accommodation capacities have already been...
Czech state TV channel ČT24 will begin to duplicate the evening news in Ukrainian. This should help refugees from Ukraine to orient themselves in the new country. The news will be released at 19:00 daily, starting March 12. The broadcasts can be viewed on the channel’s website at this link, or via HbbTV. The first issues can be found here. Česká televize chce usnadnit uprchlíkům z Ukrajiny orientaci v nové zemi. Od dnešních 19 hodin proto bude vysílat Události simultánně tlumočené do ukrajinštiny – tlumočení bude dostupné v aplikaci HbbTV a na webu iVysílání. pic.twitter.com/mzMdzexaIj — ČT24 (@CT24zive) March 12, 2022 Moreover, Czech Radio has launched an internet stream of the UA:PBC radio broadcast in Ukrainian. The stream will be available on the audio portal and in the mobile application mujRozhlas.cz. The aim of the project is to make information about the war in Ukraine available daily to refugees and Ukrainians in the Czech Republic. An estimated 200,000 Ukrainian refugees are already in the Czech Republic, with scores of thousands more expected. Around 30 percent of those who have so far registered with the local authorities have been in Prague. Prague’s mayor, Zdeněk Hřib said that available accommodation had been...
Crazy times demand strong answers. And a few businesses into the gastro joined forces to find support for Ukraine. Here are some ways you can show your support for Ukraine. Join the collection from Chefs Night (all over Czechia) The Chefs night association is trying to reach the entire Czech gastro scene with a collection for Ukraine. He targets everyone, but most of all those who are in direct contact with Ukrainian employees in restaurants and cafes. You can contribute to the collection not only as a gastronomic operator, but also as an individual. You can bid from 100 to 2000 CZK. The selected amount will go to support SOS Ukraine from People in Need. Kro Kitchen and Kro bistro & bar cover themselves in Ukrainian colors In Kro Kitchen and Kro bistro & bar, you can support Ukraine in two ways. To perfection, they tuned the vareniki with pork and also included a yellow-blue drink shooter Free Ukraine. Proceeds from the sale of both will also go to the account of SOS Ukraine from People in Need. Visualizza questo post su Instagram Un post condiviso da krokitchen (@krokitchen) Yes cafe / studio Yes kafe / studio...
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