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In all, 92 people died in 12,752 road accidents registered from June 1 to June 29, which is 21 people fewer than in the same month the previous year and a year-on-year decrease in the number of road accidents of approximately 2000.

According to Josef Tesarik from the traffic police, the number of deaths on Czech roads annually grows in the period from June to September by some 20 to 30 percent.

In June, 19 motorcyclists died which is two more than in the previous month.

Transport police director Martin Cervicek said that the police would carry out more than 70 operations this week aimed at traffic safety.

There are also speculations that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, scheduled to be in the Czech Republic, will also appear at the conference, but this has not been officially confirmed.

Rice is to be in Prague on the day when the conference begins, on July 8. She will sign the main treaty on the location of the U.S. radar in the Czech Republic.

The conference, staged by the French Association of Aviation and Astronautics, is to be attended by representatives of the firms dealing with anti-missile defence such as Boeing and Raytheon that are to be in charge of the Czech project.

Raytheon will conduct talks with Czech firms that are interested in the construction of the radar base, too.

The first cars will be received by the police on November 15. It will be 500 Skoda Octavia in police colours.

“Under the contract, Skoda will supply 2800 cars to the police with an option of delivering another 700 cars within four years,” Kuzel said.

“We are very glad that the Czech police will drive Czech cars, the cars produced in the Czech Republic,” Jan Prochazka, from Skoda Auto, said.

All 2800 or 3500 cars are to be supplied to the police in 2008-2011.

According to preliminary plants, the police are to have 1900 cars in police colours, 900 civilian cars and probably 700 cars the colouring of which will be decided on later.

My guest today is Bill Cohn, a New York born lawyer, constitutional lawprofessor and teacher. Bill has lived in the Czech Republic for a number ofyears, dividing his time between teaching media and ethics at theUniversity of New York in Prague, writing for publications such as thePrague Post and working as a legal consultant. Bill Cohn, photo: www.unyp.czYou are a media and ethics professor and a constitutional law scholar –what exactly does that mean?“I am trained as a lawyer; I worked as a lawyer in San Francisco,California for a decade. I came here, or actually I returned here – I wasfirst in …

Last November the Afghan army received the first three Mi-17s from the Czech military.

In addition, the Czech Republic will donate to Afghanistan another six combat Mi-24 helicopters. They will be sent to Afghanistan this and next year.

The first military air base in Afghanistan was opened in Kabul in January. Apart from the Czech Republic, the United States has also participated in the modernisation of the Afghan aviation fleet.

Initially, the USA has promised to donate to Afghanistan 180 planes but finally 120 planes have been donated, according to previous information.

The Czech Defence …

The Old Royal Palace at Prague Castle is currently hosting an exhibition ofphotographs by JiЕ™Г­ VЕЎeteДЌka, a photographer who is best known for hispictures of the Czech capital. The exhibition entitled PraЕѕskГЅ chodec orPrague Walker takes place on the occasion of the photographer’s 70thbirthday. It looks back at his career, spanning more than 50 years. JiЕ™Г­ VЕЎeteДЌkaThe title Prague Walker refers to a book of photos by the same name thatwas published in the late 1970s. The black and white pictures from the bookare on display outside the gallery in the Garden on the Ramparts. Most ofthese …

Prague has lost one of its best-known and best-loved literary figures. Thewriter Lenka ReinerovГЎ died on Friday at the age of 92. Her novels andstories, which drew richly from her adventurous life, were written in hernative German, and she was often described as Prague’s last Germanwriter. Lenka ReinerovГЎ was one of few surviving witnesses of the richGerman speaking literary world of Prague between the wars, and she knewmany of its best known figures, including Max Brod and the famous „rovingreporter“, Egon Erwin Kisch. David Vaughan looks back at her life. Lenka ReinerovГЎLenka ReinerovГЎ never …

The first-ever gay parade in the Czech Republic took to the streets of Brnoon Saturday, despite threats by neo-Nazi and other extremist groups. Even aheavy police presence at the march failed to prevent attacks by anti-gayprotesters who shouted insults and even threw tear gas at marching gayrights activists. Photo: CTKAround 500 gay, lesbian and bisexual rights activists took to the streetsof the Moravian city of Brno on Saturday for the Czech Republic’sfirst-ever gay march going under the name of Queer Parade. The eventstarted at Brno’s central NГЎmД›stГ­ Svobody square where the activistsand …

Over 85 percent of the municipalities said the negative effects of gambling, such as crime, were more serious than the financial effects of casinos to their budgets, the survey conducted on some 100 municipalities showed.

A working group recommended that the new law on gambling, currently drafted by the Finance Ministry, limit gambling to special premises “to protect adolescents and people from socially excluded communities from the offer that is everywhere, in cafes, restaurants, hotels, at train stations and many other places,” Stehlikova said.

She said many of the poor spend their welfare benefits in casinos.

Moreover, only teachers with over a six-year professional practice earn more than 20,000 crowns a month, while their colleagues who have been teaching for less than one year earn 14,800 crowns monthly before taxa.

The teacher’s starting salary is lower than the national average pay for workers with basic education only, said Dalibor Jakus, executive of the Profesia Slovak company carrying out the Merces.cz surveys.

Yet the situation of Czech teachers is better, compared to their colleagues in the neighbouring Slovakia and in Hungary.

The average way of Slovak teachers is 18,050 Slovak …