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. Two Ukrainian soldiers injured in the war with Russia have arrived in Czechia for treatment. The patients are receiving follow-up treatment and undergoing rehabilitation in the town of Karviná in north Moravia, where they will spend at least a month. . Price rises in various sectors of the Czech economy continued to accelerate in July, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office on Tuesday. Prices in the agriculture sector rose by 39.8 percent year-on-year and in the industry sector prices rose by 26.8 percent. Czech parents have already submitted more than 200,000 applications for a CZK 5,000 contribution in child allowance since Monday, when the system was launched. The one-off payment applies to any children still under the age of 18 on 1 August and is intended to help mitigate the effects of rising prices on families. Vlastimil Válek (TOP 09), the head of the Ministry of Health, wants to introduce one free antigen test per month from September. People could take the test even without a doctor’s request. The Czech...
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 Central Bohemia Region has the youngest population of the regions in Czechia with 41.5 years, according to data released by the Czech Statistical Office (CSU). It is followed by Prague with 42.3 years. By contrast, the Zlin, Hradec Kralove and Karlovy Vary regions have the oldest populations, with the average of 43.6 years in all of them. . Drones have found again six places with increased temperature in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park, recently devastated by a huge wildfire, regional fire corps spokeswoman Lukas Marvan told journalists on Monday. The places are situated near the Pravcicka brana narrow rock formation. ŠkodaAuto has announced a fall in profits of over 30% in the first six months of 2022, with operations strongly affected by the post-pandemic economic disruption and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, which is the company’s second-largest market. Filharmonie Brno will kick off the 23rd Špilberk International Music Festival this week. There will be four large concerts in the castle courtyard over the next 10 days. The Czech minister of...
A driver captured the crazy moment a Formula 2 car was seen flying down a motorway heading into Germany from the Czech Republic. Several videos went viral on social media as an F2 car was seen hurtling down a normal motorway road. The old Ferrari was filmed flying down the two-lane D4 motorway, between Příbram and Dobříš. The car heavily resembled an F2 chassis – but it is illegal to drive such vehicles on the motorway in the Czech Republic. Police have investigated a similar incident that occurred in 2019 in the same area. In 2019, the same car was spotted driving down the same section of motorway, which led to an inquiry. Officers managed to track down the owner of the Ferrari, but the suspect denied he was behind the wheel at the time. Subsequently, police could not prove their case as the driver was wearing a racing helmet that concealed identity, so no charges were brought against the suspect. And fortunately so for whoever was behind the wheel, as they avoided a fine and a one-year ban from driving. One account to post a video of the incident on Twitter was @F1_Images, who said: “Just a GP2 car in Ferrari...
On Sunday the 14th of August 2022, a Hawker Hurricane (OO-HUR) belonging to the Aviation Museum in Tocna near Prague crashed during it’s display at the Aviation Days in Cheb, Karlovy Vary Region. Sadly it was confirmed that the pilot was tragically killed in the accident. According to witnesses the plane suddenly lost altitude while turning and disappeared from sight. The plane has crashed into a family house but thankfully no one on the ground has been seriously injured. Petr Paces was named as the pilot who lost his life, he was a very experienced ex-Mig-21 fighter pilot, a flight instructor as well as the captain of the Boeing 737 airliner. Passionate about flying Petr Paces started flying gliders at the age of 14 before moving onto powered aircraft three years later. After school, he flew as a Mig-21 fighter pilot until 1992, leaving the army to join Air Traffic Control. Almost twenty years ago, he started flying the Boeing 737 airliners. He has also often displayed historic aircraft sharing his love for flying with thousands of people each year. Hurricane Mk. IV was one of the final variants of the Hawker-manufactured fighter, produced between 1942 and 1944. At that...
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...
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