The Million Moments for Democracy (MCHD) movement has called for nationwide protests on Tuesday, June 9.
The Metronome Festival Prague has released a statement letting fans and customers know that the music event has been postponed to June 17 – 19, 2021. “In reaction to the regulations enacted by the government, we, unfortunately, must confirm that despite our best efforts Metronome Prague will be postponed to June 17–19, 2021. We’re very sorry to have to make this decision, but all possibilities for a date this year have been exhausted,” organizers wrote on the website. “In light of the uncertainty of the situation in three months’ time, we’re facing a case where no one will purchase tickets and therefore we cannot organize the festival in the way we would like. We asked to meet with representatives of the Ministry of Health, but we continue to receive the answer that only 500 people can gather in one place even though we were prepared to accept all possible preventive measures that we proposed that would prevent the potential spread of contagions better than current measures.” Unfortunately, flights from the US are also uncertain, which would prevent the participation of some performers. The good news is that talks with booking agents are positively progressing and more than half have confirmed...
Slovenia has opened its borders to citizens of 14 states, including the Czech Republic, who can now travel to and from Slovenia without any coronavirus restrictions, the government said on its website on Monday. The other countries are Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Slovakia and Liechtenstein. The government also introduced an obligatory 14-day quarantine for everyone coming to Slovenia from North Macedonia, excluding diplomats, transport workers, and those passing through Slovenia without an overnight stay. The move follows a surge in coronavirus cases in North Macedonia over recent days. Slovenia, which in May became the first European state to declare an end to its coronavirus epidemic, has over the past few weeks opened its borders to citizens of neighbouring countries Croatia, Hungary, and Austria. Slovenia has so far reported 1,485 coronavirus cases and 109 deaths. It introduced a general lockdown in the middle of March and has been gradually lifting it since April 20.
The current pandemic motivates retailers and consumers to use the capacities of e-commerce. Its share in the Czech GDP will increase to 2.7%. Companies no longer expect a return to the situation before coronavirus, shopping online will become standard even for goods that were bought exclusively in brick-and-mortar stores. Closed shops, non-operating restaurants. At first, the loss of the opportunity to shop in brick-and-mortar stores seemed to be a significant obstacle for many customers. Fortunately for them, many companies already had an alternative to traditional shopping – and so mass purchases and transactions moved online. “From the customer’s point of view, this is a completely natural development. Customers have learned to easily find online the Commodities they used to shop for in retail stores. The fact that e-commerce is fully capable of replacing classic retail services is thus confirmed, “says Michal Šejba, regional manager of Exactly. According to Shoptet.cz data, e-commerce in the area of food, distribution and other delivery services is growing at an unusual rate, by up to 420%. Internet sales during quarantine are also used by many others. Across industries, the number of newly established e-shops has doubled in recent weeks. “Also for retailers themselves, online business...
Czech scientists from the T. G. Masaryk Water Research Institute (VÚV TGM) have had promising results in detecting a coming coronavirus epidemic before it starts to spread in the population. The researchers found that, after several months of research, the only thing they need is a sample of wastewater. Because bacteria and viruses do not get leave the body only through respiratory droplets but also through excrement, wastewater could become a valuable source of information. “Indeed, it seems that this approach could be used as a basis for an early warning system for detecting the onset of another epidemic,” explains Hana Mlejnková of VÚV TGM, who is in charge of the wastewater project. Czechia is one of the pioneers of wastewater research, one of only six countries in the world that have been able to carry out such demanding research. “If it turns out to be a reliable tool, it will become one of the possible ways to detect a coming second wave,” says Jan Kynčl, head of the Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology at the State Institute of Public Health. However, researchers had little reason to be optimistic in early April because, for a long time, they could not...
The Czech Republic allows from today gatherings of up to 500 people as coronavirus infections remained among the lowest in Europe.
On Tuesday, June 9, the Czech carrier RegioJet will start selling the tickets for the new long-distance train from Prague to Rijeka, Croatia.
Czech Pirate Party has revived efforts to legalize prostitution and now want to prepare a new regulation that would grant prostitutes the status of self-employed workers and give the authorities the power to regulate the oldest profession. “The largest brothel in Prague has a larger number of [annual] visitors than Konopiště Castle. But it still seems that none of this is happening. It is necessary to stop closing our eyes to this topic and take into account the fact that sexual services are provided not only by women but also by men,” says Prague Mayor Zdeněk Hřib. According to the Czech NGO Rozkos bes Rizika, in 2019 there were between 12,000 and 13,000 sexual workers offering paid services in the Czech Republic. “I do not want them to continue to live illegally. I believe that, if the profession were to be legalized, they would be recognized as self-employed and therefore be entitled to get support from the state. The majority of women offering sexually paid services are mothers with two children under the age of 10,” says Eva Horáková, chairwoman of the Social Policy Committee. “We believe that women should at least get a chance to provide paid sexual services as...
On 14 June, American artist and calligrapher, Susan Loy, will unveil a watercolor painting, so detailed that it took her two years to complete; the painting, titled Czech Flower Alphabet, commemorates Norbert F. Čapek and the Flower Celebration that he introduced to Czech Unitarians in June 1923. Loy will present the painting at the annual Flower Celebration in the newly remodeled Čapek Hall in the Unitaria on Anenská in Prague 1. This event is the culmination of a week-long series of videos to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Čapek’s 3 June birthday. A video, “Flower Connections: An Interview with Calligrapher Susan Loy,” will premier on 12 June and can be viewed via the Czech Unitaria website and later directly on YouTube. canThe 15-minute video records an interview of Susan Loy in her Prague studio, conducted by art historian, Jana Ticha. The interview covers Loy’s connection to Čapek’s Flower Celebration, the research that she conducted in order to plan the watercolor painting, and the technique she used to create the painting. Loy’s 56 x 56 cm watercolor painting includes a Czech flower alphabet, a wreath of thirty-one flower species common to the Czech Republic. Each flower is identified by its Czech...
Two Russian diplomats are being expelled by the Czech government amid a hoax poison plot against three Prague politicians. The government in Prague says infighting between Russian embassy staff resulted in one of them sending details of the fictitious plot to Czech intelligence. In response, the three mayors were initially given police protection. Russia condemned the expulsions as an “unfriendly act”. The expulsion was announced on Friday by Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, who described the move as “appropriate and adequate”. “We are interested in having good relations with all countries, but we are a sovereign state and such actions are unacceptable on our territory.” He gave no more details about the new information. “The government has offered an explanation, but we still don’t see the full picture,” said Ondřej Kundra of the Czech weekly Respekt, the journalist who broke the original story about the plot. “It’s hard to imagine the government would expel two Russian diplomats just because they said nasty things about each other.” Was there a plot? Details of an apparent plot first emerged in Czech weekly, Respekt, which reported that a Russian agent had travelled to Prague with a suitcase containing the highly potent toxin, ricin....
Simply pass through a huge steam machine making chocolate and you will find yourself on a traditional cocoa plantation in Mexico. The educational and entertaining Chocolate Experience Center, which takes visitors through the process of creating chocolate from plant to completed product, is now opening in Průhonice, close to Prague. The Experience Center introduces visitors to the history of chocolate production—and they can even visit a special room meant for cake throwing. There is also be augmented reality installation and chocolate workshops for families with children or corporate teambuilding events. An investment of more than 200 million crowns by the Czech–Belgian company Chocotopia is behind the creation of the Experience Center. The owners, families Van Belle and Mestdagh, have been preparing the center for two years. “We didn’t want a museum or a boring exhibit full of information,” Henk Mestdagh explained. “We tried to design a program that people couldn’t experience anywhere else.” “We are especially proud of the room meant for cake throwing,” Henk added. “Visitors will make cakes from semi-finished materials that manufacturers would otherwise throw away, and then they can take part in the sweetest battle in the world. We also organize birthday parties where the birthday...
A majority of the attacks – 95% – were registered on the internet, often on disinformation websites, far-right media and produced by activists involved in an international campaign to boycott Israel. The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the Czech Republic doubled in 2019, the Jewish community said Wednesday. In its annual report, the Federation of the Jewish Communities said there were 694 anti-Semitic attacks in 2019 compared with 347 in the previous year. A majority of the attacks – 95% – were registered on the internet, often on disinformation websites, far-right media and produced by activists involved in an international campaign to boycott Israel. The Jewish community said there were three attacks on Jewish property last year and six other incidents involved anti-Semitic threats, harassment, and verbal insults. No physical attack was registered in 2019. In June 2019, an unknown attacker damaged a monument in Prague’s main train station which children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton from Nazi death camps unveiled in 2017 to honor their parents. The Briton arranged eight trains to carry 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia through Germany to Britain just before the outbreak of World War II in 1939. He died in 2015...
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