THE CZECH DAILY WORD EXCLUSIVE / updated on July 22-23
Forty years ago, in August 1968, Warsaw Pact armies, especially the Soviet Red Army invaded then Czechoslovakia in order to halt Prague Spring reforms. The occupation lasted for many years and the last Russian soldier left the county in 1990.
Eighteen years later it becomes apparent that [...]
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Russians invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 and they stayed until 1990.
Eighteen years later — some armored vehicles, train cars and other vehicles still have been stationed in rusty military (Czech Army?) compounds, guarded by private security agencies, paid from the taxpayers’ money!!
I managed to take a few photos of such a compound. There are some vehicles [...]
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If there is anything about politics that I don’t quite understand, it is the way EU funds work. From what I have heard so far, cities, towns, villages, municipalities, firms, businesses…. GET money from them all the time.
A small Czech village needs a water treatment facility. And bang, all of a sudden the money somehow [...]
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If Senator McCain wins the White House chase, he is going to need a new map, or at least a team of advisers for European matters.
During the last two days he referred to the Czech Republic as “Czechoslovakia”, the iDNES.cz news server wrote.
Czechoslovakia ceased to exist in 1993.
Apparently he made the same mistake a few [...]
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Posted in Politics, Sports, tagged China, Olympics on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said a few months ago that he would not attend any ceremony of the upcoming Olympic Games in China, thus letting the Chinese know what he thinks about their idea of human rights protection.
Now he says he WILL go. On August 13, to support Czech athletes.
I am not convinced that [...]
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The principle of executive clemency has been criticized in this country ever since the now former president Vaclav Havel started to apply this executive power of his.
President Vaclav Klaus, after he was elected, said he would not overuse it. Well, he doesn’t but the cases are just as questionable as Havel’s.
Mr. Zdenek Kratochvil is a [...]
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Posted in Politics, tagged Vaclav Klaus on July 10, 2008 | No Comments »
How creepy is this?
Some people have been attempting to sell President Vaclav Klaus’ hip joint in internet auctions. They tried two Czech ones but with no luck. Apparently, in one case due to its definition of an “organ”, despite the fact that it can no longer be re-used, and in the other case because Vaclav [...]
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People who demonstrated against the existence of U.S. missile defense radar construction on the Czech territory threw a tomato on Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg. He was hit in the neck. He brought it to his office and put it on a plate…
A proper matured tomato should squish if you throw it. This was [...]
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg signed the treatey on the construction of U.S. missile defense “radar” in the Czech Republic.
According to Schwarzenberg, this treaty will provide for security of the entire Europe.
But according to some polls, 53 percent of Czechs are against the “radar”.
But then again, it all [...]
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Dozens of thousands of people will join a strike Tuesday, one that is said to be the biggest one since 1990. People will protest against government economic/financial reforms. Most of them are union members working in the public sectors [jobs that are budget-dependant] who said their real wages decreased after the reforms, despite the [...]
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