As the war continues in Ukraine, more big brands are expressing their disapproval of Putin’s actions by halting their operations in Russia. Artist Václav Kudělka finds humor in a dark situation by reimagining what the logos of these companies would say in his series of clever designs. The Czech graphic designer has been a fan of puns since he was a child and loves to find ways to incorporate wit into his creations. “I saw an opportunity to use wordplay to speak to the current situation,” Kudělka tells My Modern Met. “I wanted to talk about the way because I believe we have to keep talking about it to show that we care. But I also wanted to address it in a different way, and add some humor.” Most of these redraws are instantly recognizable, with just a subtle change to the design and name of the brand. For instance, McDonald’s iconic slogan “I’m Lovin’ It” has been changed to “I’m Leavin’ It” and Starbucks has become “Starbacks,” with its famed mermaid turning its back to the viewer. Similarly, Kudělka changed Netflix to “Nyetflix” (a play on nyet, the Russian word for “no”), Spotify to “Stopify,” and FedEx to “Fedexit.” The artist hopes...
Why would you pay CZK 2,000 for a Czech woman when you can have a Ukrainian woman much cheaper? That is the message being broadcast on Czech websites dedicated to arranging meetings with prostitutes. A businessman who regularly frequents the website brought the ads for Ukrainian women to the attention of the Women’s Protection Association, and they have in turn contacted the police. The unnamed businessman said that although he regularly visits the website, the ads for Ukrainian women disturbed him given that there are women and children fleeing the country due to the war. The Women’s Protection Association’s coordinator, Zdeňka Pecharová, confirmed that the first cases of abuse of Ukrainian refugees for forced prostitution had already begun in the Czech Republic. “We have information from specific men that when they make an appointment and arrive at the place, it is a dirty private house where they give women drugs and force them into prostitution,” Pecharová said. Mostly women and children flee abroad from war-torn Ukraine. According to Pecharová, men address them directly at the border, offering them transport to the Czech Republic for a fee. However, refugees thus become victims of human trafficking. Traffickers push drugs on them to get them addicted and then...
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 Education Ministry said on Tuesday it will take into account the number of Ukrainian students accepted to schools when it calculates the money the schools would receive from it in April, and if the number of Ukrainian children further increases later, schools may apply for more funding. Radio Ukraine on Tuesday started broadcasting in the Czech Republic in Ukrainian specifically for the refugees who have fled from war. It is part of the Media Bohemia group, to which Blanik, Fajn and regional Hitradios also belong, and can be listened to on the radioukrajina.cz website or on a mobile app. Prime Minister Petr Fiala says there are now around 300,000 Ukrainian refugees in the Czech Republic. Mr. Fiala made the comment during a session of the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday afternoon. Some CZK 2.53 billion belonging to Czech municipalities is tied up in the now closed Sberbank, Seznam Zprávy reported on Tuesday, citing the Union of Towns and Municipalities. Over CZK 2.5 billion owned by the country’s regional authorities is also...
The population of the Czech Republic grew by 20,000 last year to a total of 10,515,669 according to new information released by the Czech Statistics Office.
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. Over 205,000 people fleeing Russia’s war on Ukraine have now received special visas to be in the Czech Republic, the Ministry of the Interior said on Monday. To date around 110,000 have registered with the country’s migration police. EU foreign ministers did not agree on the form of the fifth package of sanctions against Russia today and their scope is to be defined by EU leaders at their summit in Brussels on Thursday, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky told journalists. Public prosecutor Jaroslav Saroch brought charges against former PM Andrej Babis and his former aide Jana Nagyova in the case of a 50-million-crown EU subsidy for the Capi hnizdo farm and conference centre. The Prague Municipal Court will deal with the case. The Czech government plans to introduce the option to keep company accounts and tax records in Euros from January 2024, according to the Finance Minister Zbynek Stanjura (ODS). The Czech Republic is the 9th best destination for an active holiday, according to fitness platform Gymcatch, mostly due to the country’s...
Czech scientists have devised a way to distinguish healthy sperm from damaged sperm and separate them from each other, an important discovery which gives new hope to couples who fail to conceive. Thanks to the discovery by Czech scientists, hopes have increased that humanity will remain fertile, even if the depressing predictions of a critical decline in male fertility come true, the discovery could significantly increase the efficiency of assisted reproduction. Male fertility is deteriorating drastically Concerns about the dramatic decline in fertility in the future are fueled by the trend observed around the world in recent decades. Already in 1992, a worrying study was published which found that in the previous 60 years, the average sperm count of men had halved. According to a recent study from 2017, which focused on the period from 1973 to 2011, the amount of sperm in ejaculate decreased by 50 to 60 percent. And that’s not all. Men have fertility issues not only due to the loss of sperm but also because of the deterioration in sperm quality, leading more and more couples to have to seek assisted reproduction. The cause of the trend is still unknown, as is the question of how much the problem...
Spring has arrived in the Czech Republic, with the March equinox taking place yesterday and increasing amounts of daylight through June. “Air temperatures will be above the long-term averages of March. In the afternoon, the humidity will drop even below 20 percent,” said František Šopko from the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (ČHMÚ) on Monday. Monday will be sunny with day temperatures between 9 and 13 degrees Celsius. In the mountains, temperatures will range between 4 and 7 degrees. There will be a mild south-easterly wind in the east of the country. At night we expect clear skies and temperatures will drop to 1 to minus 3 degrees Celsius. There will be a slight south-easterly wind with a speed of 1 to 4 meters per second in Moravia and Silesia. On Tuesday we also expect sunny weather. The maximum daytime temperatures will be between 14 and 18 degrees. There will be a slight south-easterly wind with a speed of 2 to 6 meters per second, in the east of the territory a slight variable wind with a speed of 4 meters per second. On Wednesday we expect clear weather. Night temperatures will drop to 2 to minus 2 degrees Celsius. Daytime temperatures...
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 government will ask the lower house of Parliament to extend the state of emergency in the country in connection with the refugee crisis, Interior Minister Vit Rakušan said on Sunday. Over 200,000 Ukrainian refugees have now received special humanitarian visas in the Czech Republic, and the overall number of refugees in the country, according to mobile operators, is nearing 300,000. The Czech Republic is planning to open a temporary diplomatic representation in Ukraine. Deputy Foreign Minister Martin Smolek told Czech Radio that the ministry wants to open an office in Uzhhorod within two weeks. After a relatively cool start to the astronomical spring, which fell on Sunday, temperatures will begin to rise noticeably this week. Temperatures could reach 17 °C on Wednesday. The Czech Republic is the 9th best destination for an active holiday, according to fitness platform Gymcatch, mostly due to the country’s appeal for hikers, cyclists, and skiers.
Sunday, March 20, is the 30th anniversary of the opening of the first branch of the fast-food chain McDonald’s in the then Czechoslovakia. An estimated 11,000 people turned up for the opening of the company’s first outlet on Prague’s Vodičkova street on 20 March 1992, iDnes.cz wrote. In 1993, a Big Mac cost CZK 50, while the average salary was less than 6,000 crowns. But even the high cost did not deter customers from coming. In its first year, the company opened three restaurants in the Czech Republic, which attracted over three million customers. The first restaurant outside the capital opened a year later in the eastern city of Ostrava. And there was even a famous photograph of the former general secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, Miloš Jakeš, sitting down for a McDonald’s meal a few years later.
With the world in a state of upheaval, we could use some happy news. The United Nations has released its 10th annual World Happiness Report—just days ahead of the annual International Day of Happiness on March 20. For the fifth year in a row, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world, with Denmark coming in second, followed by Iceland, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The World Happiness Report—which ranks global happiness in more than 150 countries around the world—is released every year by the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The statisticians base the ranking on data from the Gallup World Poll and several other factors, including levels of GDP, life expectancy and more. With the world entering the third year of the pandemic, the report has three areas of focus in 2022: looking back; looking at how people and countries are doing in the face of Covid-19; and looking ahead to how the science of well-being is likely to evolve in the future. Happiness in troubled times Average life evaluations “have remained remarkably resilient” during the pandemic, with negative and positive influences offsetting each other, the report says. “For the young, life satisfaction has fallen, while for those over 60, it has risen...
A Czech designer has come up with a novel way to raise money for Ukrainians suffering from the war in their country – making pillows bearing the portrait of their president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who he says has become a sex symbol for some. Zelenskiy, tired, unshaven but defiant in his trademark green T-shirt, has become the face of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion, rallying his compatriots from his bunker in Kyiv in daily broadcasts on social media. “Many people, mostly of the fair sex, see him as some kind of a sex symbol, so I got the idea to make a pillow which would look like he is actually in their bed,” designer Tomas Brinek told Reuters. Brinek, who runs a satirical Instagram channel called TMBK which has more than 540,000 followers and usually pokes fun at politicians, said his limited edition of hand-made pillows has attracted more than 2,000 orders and raised some 420,000 crowns ($18,900) for a charity helping Ukrainians affected by the war. “The idea was really a bit of a joke but there is this serious side that the profits can do some good for Ukraine,” Brinek said, adding that he now planned to make another...
A humanitarian mission launched within 24 hours of the conflict breaking out in Ukraine is delivering thousands of boxes of essential items to residents and collecting refugees at the Ukraine/Poland border to bring them to safety in the Czech Republic, Poland and Switzerland. Freedom Boxes has been created by Stuart Watkins, who also owns the software company Zenoo which is based in Prague. When the conflict began, Stuart, his family, and his team set about to do something to deliver help and provide hope to those affected by the invasion. With Freedom Boxes, the team has created an immediate way to directly help those in need. The team is made up of people from the UK and across the Central and Eastern European region, including Russia and Ukraine, who have pulled together to prepare, pack, and deliver Freedom Boxes. The Freedom Boxes are delivered across the border directly to those in need – in bunkers and war zones – with the team’s drivers risking their lives on every trip. Two of the four people working on the project in Ukraine are Stuart’s team members and they are helping deal with the coordination of getting people to the border and out...
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