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In this edition of Pick of the Month; a former US soldier argues thatallowing his country to build a radar base in the Czech Republic couldthreaten Czech security; the “Czech Lawrence of Arabia” AloisMusil remembered; how Prague has become more expensive than some UScities; and leading poet, literary critic and saxophonist Jan Stolbadiscusses some of the people who inspired him. Tom Cassidy, photo: Rob CameronThe biggest news event here in June was the visit of George Bush to theCzech capital. The American president was in Prague trying to win supportfor US plans to station a radar base in central …

Today in Mailbox we announce the name of the overall winner of RadioPrague’s 2007 listeners’ contest as well as the runners-up. You can alsofind out a brand new monthly quiz question. Welcome to Mailbox. The deadline for your mystery Czech competition answerspassed yesterday but I’m afraid you’ll have to wait for another week tohear the names of the four lucky winners and indeed, the name of ourmystery person.I have the pleasant duty this week to announce the winners in RadioPrague’s annual listeners’ competition. If you remember we asked you toanswer a simple question: “Which Czech film do you …

What do you think happens when a black cat crosses the path of a Swiss,Austrian, German or Czech? The Swiss walks on without taking any notice.The Austrian and German may hesitate but eventually they will walk onanyway. The Czech will most likely turn back or take a different route incase the black cat puts a jinx on his day. Well, it’s a bit exaggerated, I know, but basically that is the result of aEuropean survey on superstition conducted by the renowned polling agencyMarketagent. The outcome of the survey, in which 6,000 people took part,suggests that the Czechs are the most superstitious nation …

The plans should respect the skyline of the historical core of Prague, experts from the World Heritage Committee said.

Developers are preparing the construction of new high-rise buildings at Prague’s Pankrac neighbourhood. Local civic groups are protesting against the investor’s idea.

The plan is also rejected by the International Council on Monuments and Sites, an advisory body of the UNESCO committee.

On the other hand, the Prague town hall conservationists and the Prague branch of the National Heritage Institute have issued positive opinions.

Pekarova said the final conclusion of …

Activists from the extra-parliamentary Workers’ Party (DS) and National Corporativism criticised the planned finance reforms and individual ministers.

There were no incidents during the 30-minute rally.

DS leader Tomas Vandas called the government a clique of “collaborationists and thieves” and DS deputy chairman Jiri Stepanek criticised it for lack of patriotism.

Stepanek said the government plans to curb the public debt amounted to a “reform in the gangster style.”

“Topolanek is more interested in young girls than in the work. Besides, he speaks vulgarly,” Stepanek said.

Stepanek …

Compared with incomes of other politicians, the salary of the head of state is not subject to taxes, MfD writes.

“It is one of the things that are within the proposal. We think that all incomes should be subjected to the same tax system. There is no reason to have any exceptions,” Vlastimil Tlusty, a former finance minister and an ODS deputy, told the paper.

MfD writes that president’s salary is 204,700 crowns a month, with a monthly special bonus of 190,500 crowns. In total, the income of the head of state is 395,200 crowns a month that are not taxed.

If the proposal were accepted, the head of state would receive some 320,100 crowns a month, the daily writes.

The very first pub on wheels in the Czech Republic! Czech hunters have heldtheir annual “elk bugling” contest - and, who says fishing inPrague is no fun? An Australian angler lands the biggest fish ever to comeout of the Vltava River. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova. Given the pub culture in the Czech Republic it was only a question of timebefore someone thought of it - running a pub on wheels. The very firstmobile pub appeared in the town of Myslcovice near Zlin last week andproved to be a huge success. The pub on wheels was a temporary arrangementfor a two day summer festival …

Czech President Vaclav Klaus with his wife Livia also attended the ceremony, along with diplomats, members of the international juries, including Variety magazine editor-in-chief Peter Bart who chairs the main jury this year, film-makers, regional officials and other famous personalities.

Pojar, 83, has created some 70 animated films that won a number of awards at Czech and international festivals. He cooperated with partners in Canada for years and he also made films for the U.N. He is, among others, the author of animated scenes for film The Bear by Jean-Jacques Annaud.

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The abolition of administrative barriers will also apply to Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia.

The ten new countries concerned entered the EU in 2004 and this year.

The Danish government has not yet set an exact date of lifting the restrictions by which it will join a majority of the “old” EU member countries.

The citizens of the ten new countries concerned can already now work without any permit in Britain, Greece, Finland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

Besides Denmark, various types of restrictions are still in force in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Luxembourg.

Ir said it wants the case to be investigated, the culprits punished and the monument brought back to its original shape.

Its statement is available on www.brno.mid.ru , the website of the Russian General Consulate in Brno, the Czech Republic’s second largest city.

According to it, the Czech ambassador to Russia, Miroslav Kostelka, has expressed regret at the incident.

Kostelka admitted that the Brno monument, like similar monuments in other Czech towns liberated by the Red Army in 1945, is protected by inter-government agreements and the Czech Republic is bound to protect them, the embassy says.