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The attorney’s office asked the Danish judiciary whether Skrlova was in Denmark, Prima reported.

Skrlova, 32, passed herself off as a 13-year-old girl earlier this year in a rather unclear case.

Skrlova, with the help of other people, managed to receive a false identity and then lived as a schoolgirl in a family in which her step-mother maltreated her two sons, especially the seven-year-old Ondrej.

Skrlova’s new identity was allegedly part of the plans of a religious sect.

The case attracted big media attention this spring when Ondrej’s maltreatment was revealed. After the mother’s arrest, …

In pre-war Poland - Jews were one of the largest minorities. And in thesouthern city of KrakГіw they played a prominent role in everyday life witha thriving and dynamic culture. Eighty years after this golden era, theInternational Cultural Centre is hosting an exhibition that serves as areminder of what everyday life in Jewish KrakГіw was really like. KazimierzWalking through the streets of Kazimierz, the Jewish quarter of Poland’ssouthern city of KrakГіw, one begins to wonder… What was life really likefor Jews who lived in this neighbourhood, and what did everyday life looklike? The question may …

In Slovenia a major operation is underway to mark and uncover mass gravescontaining the bodies of tens of thousands of people killed at the end ofWorld War 2. They were mostly victims of vengeance killings by thepartisans of Yugoslav leader Josip Tito after the allies turned them backfrom Austria and handed them over. Many had collaborated with the Nazis andwere executed without trial. By marking and opening the graves theSlovenian government is trying help people come to terms with thisunprecedented slaughter. One of the largest graves is near Maribor inwestern Slovenia from where Ksenija Samardzija-Matul …

In Slovakia last year prescription drugs consumed about a third of thetotal amount of money spent in the Slovak healthcare system. This figure isthree times higher than the world average. The Health Ministry says localdoctors seemed hooked on prescribing drugs even when it’s not necessary -while patients tend to visit a doctor even for a mild headache. Slovakia has about 5.4 million people but every year the five Slovak healthinsurance companies spend about 937 million euro on prescribed drugs. Andthe figure is going up, says Zuzana Hornikova, a spokesperson for thelargest private health insurer …

Police in Slovakia and Hungary last week arrested three people on suspicionof smuggling radioactive material. Police say it was enriched uranium whichthe suspects were trying to sell for one million dollars. Two were arrestedin eastern Slovakia and a third in Hungary. It’s not the first time nuclearmaterials have turned up in the wrong hands in Central Europe. In 2003,police in the Czech Republic arrested two Slovaks in a sting operation inthe city of Brno after they allegedly sold undercover officers naturaldepleted uranium for almost three quarters of a million dollars.The great fear is that …

With the holiday season just around the corner, the traditional PragueChristmas market is due to open on Saturday in the historic centre of theCzech capital. Both visitors to Prague and locals can come to see what’sin store this year in Old Town Square and Wenceslas Square and sample sometraditional Czech Christmas delicacies. Photo: CTKOn Saturday, December 1, at 5 PM, the Christmas tree on Prague’s Old TownSquare will be lit to officially mark the beginning of this year’sChristmas market in the Czech capital. Strolling around more than 80 standswith traditional Czech handicraft products as well …

This Saturday marks World Aids Day, 26 years since the first case of HIVwas discovered. The year 2007 has been the darkest for the Czech Republicso far, with the number of new HIV-patients for the first time exceedingone hundred. But despite the growing number of infected people the countrystill records one of the lowest figures of HIV-positive patients in Europe. Last year the Czech national AIDS laboratory registered 93 new HIV-infectedpatients. By the end of October 2007, their number had already surpassedone hundred. The overall statistics are relatively good: the number ofregistered HIV infected …

Remember all the fuss a few weeks ago when a neo-Nazi group tried to marchthrough the Jewish quarter on the anniversary of Kristallnacht? That marchwas prevented, but led to much discussion about the size and seriousness ofthe neo-Nazi threat in the Czech Republic. Now a leading Czech newspaperhas claimed that neo-Nazis have managed to infiltrate the Czech ArmedForces, and has the evidence to prove it. Photo: MFDnes, 30.11.07The newspaper Mlada Fronta Dnes claimed on Friday that among the neo-Naziscaptured in a photo marching through the city of Most is one Martin Hrach,an artillery gunner serving …

Doctor Dagmar Hruzova was sentenced to one year in prison suspended for two years and fined 800,000 crowns.

Another three employees of the tissue bank were fined for illegal dealing with the human tissue.

“The defendants’ behaviour breached the law,” judge Ales Dufek said.

“They would not have been tried, if they had not been given money for delivering the tissues for abroad,” Dufek said.

He stressed that they had been paid twice for their work, from the teaching hospital in Brno-Bohunice, that manages the tissue bank, and from Euroskinbank in the Netherlands that received the skin from Brno.

The agency will operate in six areas in Bohemia and six in Moravia. The government will approve its official establishment in December, Stehlikova said.

According to an expert analysis, there are more that 300 houses and areas for the poor, mainly populated by Romanies. Up to 80,000 people live in these ghettos. Most of adult residents there areas are jobless, families are dependent on social benefits and children are often sent to special schools for less gifted kids.

“Ghettos are a real problem and it is not only a problem of its inhabitants, but of the entire town where they are located. …