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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Posted in Politics, World, tagged Kosovo, Serbia on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Serbia keeps recalling ambassadors to countries that recognize the independence of Kosovo. Now they recalled the ambassador to the Czech Republic, because our government recognized Kosovo a while ago.
Unlike other countries’ governments, ours wasn’t united in its statement. The governing coalition Christian Democrats decided to abstain from the vote, claiming that The new government of [...]
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Josef Fritzl had held his daughter locked up in a basement for 24 years. And he is the father of her six surviving children, as one baby boy died shortly after birth. Fritzel admitted the charges yesterday.
Common sense interpretation? Abuse, rape, incest … multiple occurrences of all of the aforementioned crimes. — Life sentence.
Oh, wait. [...]
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Posted in Law, World, tagged child abduction on April 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
At the end of March New Zealander Rodney William Cowie kidnapped his daughter from the Czech Republic. A few days later they arrived in Australia.
His Czech ex-partner and mother of the girl met them a few days ago. Reportedly the girl told her mother the she wished to die.
A court in Sydney ruled that the [...]
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Posted in Sports, World, tagged China, Olympics, nudists on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Nudists should be among the activists who are expected to protest against the Olympic Torch run in San Francisco.
If I could, I would join them right away. I think it would a nice kind of symbolism because in Ancient Greece athletes would compete naked. Sure, we have different social standards now and it is customary [...]
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Posted in Law, World on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
New Zealander Rodney William Cowie and his Czech daughter whom he reportedly kidnapped from the Czech Republic arrived in Australia on Monday, authorities confirmed.
The girl did not have her own passport and Cowie did not have her listed in his, so the mystery is how the girl managed to leave unnoticed…
The case is under investigation [...]
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Posted in Sports, World, tagged China, Olympics, Tibet on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Several Czech politicians have expressed their decision not to take part at anything that is related to the Olympic Games that are to take place in China this year. Among them was the Mayor of Prague Pavel Bem whose arguments are Tibet-related. Mayor Bem climbed Mount Everest a while ago.
The Chinese have recently offered one [...]
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Posted in Politics, World on March 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
::UPDATED on MARCH 21 - see underneath the photos::
Several people from Iraq attended an event that took place in downtown Brno on Thursday afternoon. Two women and two men talked about life in their home country. Among the information that people could hear was that there were some cases of human trafficking when children could [...]
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Posted in Politics, Religion, World, tagged Iraq, Saddam, war on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
Several NGO’s will commemorate the war in Iraq during a street happening. Several Iraqis are announced to attend, they should talk to people about life in the country, they should compare the Saddam era and the post-Saddam era.
I am so gonna go…
To be updated when I get back, possibly some photos might appear here, too…
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A member of Delta-Force-style Czech Army unit was killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan. Two other soldiers were wounded, the Czech Defense Minister Vlasta Parkanova [yes, we have a female Defense Minister] said yesterday. Accoring to the ministry’s statistics this is the first combat-related death of a Czech soldiers since 1945 [see table below].
The [...]
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