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Current AffairsWanted businessman leaves country to avoid prosecution

The Czech media are full of it - another billionaire wanted by the authorities has left the country. Earlier this year businessman Radovan Krejcir escaped from his villa while it was being searched by the police and is now enjoying the tropical climate of the Seychelles. Another entrepreneur, Viktor Kozeny, aka the Pirate of Prague has been evading prosecution for years in the Bahamas - another country which does not have an extradition treaty with the Czech Republic. The two have now been joined by another super-rich businessman, Tomas Pitr, who was sentenced last month to eight years in prison for tax fraud, but while waiting for his appeal to be heard, left the country just as an arrest warrant was issued for him.  More

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Current AffairsNew collection "reunites" author Jaroslav Hasek with illustrator Josef Lada

"The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War" is the episodic tale of a Czech soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army whose own apparent stupidity is used to critique the absurdities of war. Translated into 60 languages, it is perhaps the best known Czech work of fiction of all time. Now, over 80 years after its publication, its author Jaroslav Hasek and illustrator Josef Lada have been reunited in a new collection.  More

Current AffairsYvetta Hlavacova sets new Czech record for swimming English Channel

Long-distance swimmer Yvetta Hlavacova has set a new Czech record for swimming the English Channel. Setting off from near Dover on Monday morning, Hlavacova completed the gruelling 21-mile swim in eight hours 42 minutes, an hour and 25 minutes short of the world record she was hoping to break. The 30-year-old said La Manche was the greatest swim of her career, but said she would have needed better weather to enter the record books:  More

NewsSwimmer breaks Czech record for swimming across La Manche

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In Sports News: leading Czech kayaker Stepanka Hilgert comes second in a competition seen as a dress rehearsal for next year's World Championships in Prague; young high jumper Jaroslav Baba comes second at a Golden League meeting; two Czechs succeed in swimming the English Channel; is Milan Baros bound for Schalke?; and Bohemians 1905 play their first match since the club was resurrected by a group of fans.  More

Current AffairsThree Czechs planning tough English Channel swim over next week

While many Czechs are enjoying their summer holidays taking it easy in the countryside or lazing on the beach abroad, a few hardy souls will soon be facing one of the ultimate sporting challenges - swimming La Manche, the English Channel. More

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What's for Sunday dinner? The mum who was treated to a marihuana "pot roast", courtesy of her son. Who is stealing the famous Prague Castle cats? And, a Czech brothel goes on-line. You get everything for free but the whole world will see you at it. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.  More

Current AffairsJosef Lada's paintings an enduring symbol of Czech Christmas

For many readers around the world, Josef Lada's illustrations of the Good Soldier Svejk are inextricably linked to the famous character created by Jaroslav Hasek. But Josef Lada did far more than illustrate Hasek's novel, and his idealized paintings of carol singers and family gatherings are for many in this country an enduring symbol of Czech Christmas.  More