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News Czech Republic 09.09.2012 - 13.09.2012
14.09.2012 08:20
CR: Methanol claims 18th victim
Methanol-laced bootleg liquor claimed its 18th victim in the Czech Republic when an older man died on Wednesday in his apartment in Havířov, in the north east of the country. Another five cases of suspected methanol poisoning have been registered in the...
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News Czech Republic 23.08.2012
24.08.2012 10:30
CR: British social workers remove children from Czech Roma parents
Slovak TV Joj has reported on a growing number of cases in which British social workers allegedly removed Czech and Slovak Romany children from their families. According to the reports the latest such case happened in...
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Tatra CEO arrest raises questions about his accuser
23.08.2012 12:28
CR: An unprecedented number of high-level corruption cases have been uncovered in the past months in the Czech Republic. Police and state attorneys appear to be investigating corruption charges brought to them with greater urgency. The arrest of Ronald Adams, the CEO of Czech truck maker...
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News Czech Republic 22.08.2012
23.08.2012 12:25
CR: BIS report: Russian agents on Czech soil focussed on energy and industry in 2011
Russian intelligence officers were the most active of foreign secret service agents on Czech soil last year, says the annual report by the country’s counter-intelligence service, BIS. According to the...
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News Czech Republic 21.08.2012
22.08.2012 13:51
CR: Czechs commemorate the 1968 Soviet-led invasion
Czechs marked the 44th anniversary of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. A number of high-ranking politicians attended a remembrance ceremony on Tuesday at the main Czech Radio building in Prague, including speakers of both...
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News Czech Republic 20.08.2012
21.08.2012 12:57
CR: Court sets 14 million bail for Rath
A Prague district court has set bail for former Central Bohemian governor and MP David Rath (arrested in May on corruption charges) at 14 million crowns (the equivalent of almost 700,000 US dollars). The spokesman for the court Jiří Wažik stressed...
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News Czech Republic 19.08.2012 - 17.08.2012
20.08.2012 09:38
CR: Another request for Rath’s release to be considered Monday
District court in Prague will hear another request for release on Monday from the jailed former governor of Central Bohemia David Rath. The court will decide whether the defendant can be released from jail pending trial in...
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The Four Corners of the Czech Republic, Pt. I: The Bohemian Forest
17.08.2012 08:04
CR: Borderlands are fascinating areas where cultures either meet and intermingle, or in some cases are cordoned off to coldly stare at one another. The Czech/German/Austrian tri-border has experienced both. Over the last century it went from being an imaginary line through the woods to a...
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New Šumava National Park head raises eyebrows with plans to downgrade conservation status
17.08.2012 08:03
CR: The Šumava National park is one of the Czech Republic’s indisputable natural treasures. A vast 100km long stretch of forest running along the south-western border of the country, the area has been protected since the early 1960s and a nature reserve has existed within this zone since...
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Senate torpedoes church restitution bill
17.08.2012 08:01
CR: After hours of debate the opposition-controlled Senate on Wednesday rejected a controversial bill on the restitution of church property. Under the legislation the state would secure the transfer of part of the land and property seized by the communist regime in the 1950s and pay tens of...
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