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. About 60,000 people joined the Prague Pride parade yesterday, crossing the city centre and reaching Letna Plain where the programme continued until the night, Prague police spokesman Jan Rybansky told CTK. . A pilot died after his aircraft crashed into a house during an air show in the Western Bohemian town of Cheb on Sunday. The pilot died and one person was injured, the Czech News Agency reported. A Czech Film Week gets underway in Israel on Monday, presenting the best of Czech and Czechoslovak films in cinemas in Tel- Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. The program will also mark the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Oscar-winning director Miloš Forman, Armenian national Norair Tsaturian, who shot at two men outside a shopping mall in Prague in 2016, was sentenced to seven years in prison on the basis of a plea bargain that the Prague Municipal Court approved today, court spokesman Adam Wenig has told CTK. The Czech Banking Association (ČBA) has improved its forecast for the growth of the Czech economy...
Oil shipments from Russia through a critical pipeline to Czechia resumed Friday after more than a week, the Czech pipeline operator Mero said. Czechia became the last central European country after Slovakia and Hungary to receive deliveries from the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline after a problem over payments for transit was resolved. Russian state pipeline operator Transneft said Tuesday it halted shipments through the southern branch of the Druzhba pipeline, which runs through Ukraine to Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The northern leg of the Druzhba pipeline, which runs through Belarus to Poland and Germany, was unaffected. Transneft cited complications due to European Union sanctions for its action on Aug. 4, saying its payment to the company´s Ukrainian counterpart was refused. On Wednesday, the payment was made by Slovak refiner Slovnaft after both Russia and Ukraine agreed to the solution. Slovnaft is owned by Hungary´s MOL energy group. But Slovnaft said the deal covered only shipments to Slovakia and Hungary and not to Czechia. Slovak Economy Minister Richard Sulik said the problem was caused by the refusal of an unnamed bank in Western Europe to transfer the money due to the sanctions imposed by the EU on Russia for...
Czechs frequently come to Poland to save money on a range of goods, especially for Czechs who live closest to the Polish border. “Each visit is saving us money,” Czechs living near the border with Poland tell the Polish Press Agency (PAP). In the village of Istebna in southern Poland, a convenience store parking lot is often occupied by Czech cars, with drivers coming from towns located 17 kilometers away. One Polish reporter saw Czechs mostly had their shopping carts filled with dairy products, meat, cold cuts, and carbonated drinks. Two Czechs, Vaclav and Jana, said they have been crossing the border since spring when Polish authorities lowered the VAT for many products. “We were told that the bargains will end in July, but Poles extended the discounts. We can still shop here,” they said. They are not interested in going to larger towns and instead only visit Istebna, which is closer. On social media, Czechs are exchanging information about where to find the cheapest products such as building materials, windows, business suits, gravestones, and pet food. The border town of Cieszyn is a place where residents of Český Těšín, the Czech part of the town, cross the border even for their...
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. Tourists will be banned from the Bohemian Switzerland National Park, recently hit by a disastrous fire, until August 31, Economy Minister Anna Hubackova said, adding that the evacuated locals can start returning to their homes on Saturday. . The Czech Republic has granted temporary protection visas to 410,459 Ukrainian refugees since the war in Ukraine started in February, with 1,096 visas issued on Wednesday, some 40 fewer than a week ago, the Interior Ministry wrote on Twitter today. The Supreme Court has confirmed the 20-year prison sentence for Martin Kantor, for fighting in the ranks of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Adam Wenig, the spokesman for the Prague Municipal Court, told journalists today. As expected, the Czech Senate yesterday approved NATO accession for Finland and Sweden almost unanimously. Finland and Sweden applied for NATO membership in early July in reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Czech Banking Association (ČBA) has improved its forecast for the growth of the Czech economy from May’s previous estimate of 1.8 percent to 2.4 percent....
A well-preserved kitchen thought to date to the early fifteenth century has been found near the historic town walls of Nový Jičín, which is located in the Moravian-Silesian region of the eastern Czech Republic. Based on this location, Pavel Stabrava of the Novojičín Museum suggests the site may have been the home of a burgher family, although wealthier members of the same class were likely to have lived around the town square. The kitchen was part of a house built of logs on a stone foundation, he added and was equipped with a brick oven and a hearth. Archaeologists also uncovered intact ceramic pots with their lids and a wooden cooking spoon. Burn marks suggest the house’s inhabitants may have been forced to leave, perhaps during an attack by the Hussites in 1427. “Since the house was located near the town walls, this would have been a less wealthy burgher family. The richest burghers would have lived in so-called ‘beer court’ houses around the town square.” Most likely founded in the 1300s by the Lords of Kravaře, Nový Jičín seems to have gradually evolved from an earlier settlement around the castle of Starý Jičín which protected the nearby Amber Road...
Wave. Avalanche. Volcano. You might think there’s nothing remotely sexy about these words, but a new study is set to change that. The research from Charles University in Prague found that female orgasms fall into three categories: a wave, an avalanche and a volcano. A “wave” is as it sounds – a short burst of pelvic contractions and release of tension. A “volcano” is so called because these types of orgasms feel like more of an explosion, as the pelvic floor tension swiftly releases. An “avalanche” refers to higher pelvic floor contractions, which decrease during and after orgasm. The study asked 54 women to use a Bluetooth-connected vibrator, the Lioness. This particular vibrator has two sensors which detect the force of pelvic floor contractions, so that these patterns can then be analysed. The three types of orgasms relate to the different patterns of pelvic floor contractions at orgasm that these women experienced. The women who did the study were asked to masturbate at home using the device over a few days (sounds like our kind of science experiment, tbh). “Wave” orgasms were most common in those who took part in the study, with 26 women experiencing this type, while 17 had an...
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. Up to 1,200 Czech troops may be deployed at the NATO eastern flank in the next two years, under the plan of foreign army missions until 2024 approved by the Senate today. The Chamber of Deputies is yet to give the go-ahead to the missions. . The Czech Senate approved yesterday the bill to restrict the impact of selected plastic products on the environment, banning single-use plastic cutlery, plates and drinking straws in harmony with EU regulations. The bill was supported by 49 of the 69 senators present. Now, President Milos Zeman is to assess it and sign it into law. The President of the Senate Milos Vystrcil handed the Silver Medal to the outgoing Ukrainian ambassador to the Czech Republic Yevhen Perebyinis. Vystrcil said Perebyinis was a man who had rendered a tremendous work for Ukraine and, thereby, also for the Czech Republic. Czech diplomacy fully supports a possible establishment of a Belarusian office in Prague, which should be open to all democratically thinking Belarusians in Czechia. Opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said...
According to official statistics, roughly 300,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russian aggression found a home in the Czech Republic this year. Almost half of them use state-paid housing, but that could soon change. By the end of the summer, the interior ministry wants to decide how long it will pay for housing for refugees. After this date, they would have to look for their own accommodation and pay for it themselves. The state hopes this will also free up accommodation capacity for Ukrainians who arrive in the Czech Republic to escape the country’s bitter winter. “We would like to declare how long refugees should stay in temporary accommodation,” said firefighter chief Vladimír Vlček. “The decision must be made ahead of time so that they have time to find something. It should be in August,” he added. Firefighters are part of the interior ministry’s strategic group. This group decides on matters surrounding the refugee crisis and passes on its outputs to Interior Minister Vít Rakušan. According to Vlček, Ukrainians must stand on their own two feet and seek longer-term accommodation. “We have not figured it out yet, but I imagine it would be a given time from registration. For example, half a year after the person was registered, he would...
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. Prague’s St Ludmila Church has gained the title basilica minor, which the Pope bestows on significant church buildings. The title basilica minor has been most often granted to pilgrimage churches, which can be recognised by the papal symbol placed on them. . The Czech Senate foreign committee unanimously supported Finland and Sweden’s entry into NATO on Tuesday, on the eve of the upper house’s plenary vote on the proposal. Finland and Sweden applied for NATO membership in reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. Only about 80 hectares have not yet been extinguished in the Bohemian Switzerland National park, where a big fire broke out 17 days ago. On Tuesday morning, the firefighters handed over another part of the park to its administration, namely part of the third sector lying near Vysoka Lipa, North Bohemia. More than four million Covid-19 cases have been confirmed by laboratories in Czechia since the epidemic outbreak in the country in March 2020. The infection pace started to rise sharply last November and then in...
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 number of firefighters and resources in Bohemian Switzerland will be greatly reduced this week. Firefighters will leave gradually as they hand over other extinguished areas to the park administration. . The 12th Prague Pride, an annual week-long festival of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people (LGBT), started with hoisting a rainbow flag at the Prague City Hall on Monday, running through August 14 and offering 150 events. The Czech Defence Ministry will launch talks with Israel on the purchase of three unmanned aerial vehicles Heron 1. Daily Pravo writes that the three drones should cost 1.5 billion crowns. Heron 1 can be used for reconnaissance purposes, but also for combat missions since it is able to carry weapons. Czech President Milos Zeman has vetoed the bill that would cut state health care payments and introduce their indexation as from 2024 in the same way as pensions are indexed. The lower house of the Czech parliament may override the presidential veto. The government coalition has the majority in the house needed to override...
Overhead line failure caused a number of trains in Moravia to be delayed by eight to ten hours. Furious passengers reported that they received little to no assistance from the employees of the Czech state railways (České dráhy), leading the desperate stranded tourists almost to the point of mutiny. A traction line in Brandýs nad Orlicí in the Czech region of Moravia broke down in the morning of Saturday, August 6, causing massive delays, exasperating an obstruction caused by a train derailment earlier that morning. Substitute bus services were provided to some of the passengers, but not enough to get all of them to their destination. Michal Kavalčík, a well-known Czech musician, comedian, and radio personality, reported on the dissatisfaction of his fellow travellers. Instead of providing assistance to the disgruntled passengers, the train conductors called the police on them. What was probably the most exasperating, was the train staff’s refusal to provide the passengers with any information. Not just as to when the train will continue on its route, but even refusing to tell them what went wrong. The replacement transport that České dráhy provided was also insufficient. “Send us some more buses so we can get to Moravia....
Two years ago, the COVID-19 health crisis triggered a surge in remote working as most countries had to follow strict safety measures to keep businesses going. But now that most of these measures have lifted and life has gone back to “normal,” many companies are still transitioning their once-in-office roles to either entirely or partially remote ones. A recent study from employment site Indeed found that the number of global job listings with a remote component has soared since the beginning of the pandemic, nearly tripling from an average of just 2.5 per cent in January 2020 to almost 7.5 per cent in September 2021. Data scientists at careers site Ladders believe remote work is here to stay, with a full quarter of all professional jobs to be available remotely by the end of the year. “This change in working arrangements is impossible to overhype. As big as it is, it’s even bigger than people think,” said Ladders CEO Marc Cenedella. “Hiring practices typically move at a glacial pace, but the pandemic turned up the heat so we’re seeing a rapid flood of change in this space. It’s really rather amazing”. But while much of the world seems to be rapidly embracing...
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