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Current AffairsCzech rock star Petr Janda considering run for the Senate
Musician Petr Janda, who leads the legendary (and long-running) Czech rock
band Olympic, has announced he is going to run for the Senate. He is by no
means the first Czech show business personality to go into politics since
the Velvet Revolution in 1989. More
Current AffairsCzech and foreign dignitaries gather in Prague to discuss enlarged EU's relations with eastern neighbours
As you undoubtedly know, the Czech Republic will join a number of other
countries in acceding to the European Union in a few days time. One of the
challenges facing this enlarged EU is that it must ensure ways of
fostering and developing good relations with its new Eastern neighbours.
Next week, a major international conference co-hosted by the Centre for
the National Glory of Russia is being held in Prague, which will
specifically address this issue. The conference will include a number of
local luminaries such as former Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman and
ex-President of the UN assembly Jan Kavan.
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Some of the attention grabbing stories on today's front pages are: the
first official photograph of the latest Skoda model Octavia, news that
senator Vladimir Zelezny, the controversial former media mogul, is running
for elections to the European Parliament and the President's sudden desire
to move house in the wake of a revelation that the presidential villa
-located in a prestigious Prague district - was confiscated from a German
family under the post war Benes decrees.
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There's a mixed bag of stories on the front pages of today's dailies - news
that Vladimir Zelezny could have a chance of regaining control of the
country's most popular commercial TV station Nova, the latest fatal road
accident in which four young people died when another vehicle failed to
give way at a crossroads, and proposals by Interior Minister Stanislav
Gross for the Czech president to be elected in a direct vote, rather than
today's parliamentary system.
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The former director of the commercial TV station Nova Vladimir Zelezny
appears to be back in the limelight. His photo dominates the front pages
of the three main national dailies today. Mr Zelezny, who was elected
senator last year, has founded a senators' group together with three
senators for the Communist Party and another independent senator, five
being the minimum number required for establishing such a group.
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Politicians in fighting poses appear on several front pages today: there's a big photo of President Vaclav Klaus on the front page of MLADA FRONTA DNES, to illustrate a story on the forthcoming inter-governmental conference on the future of Europe, which he's not going to. LIDOVE NOVINY meanwhile features rough-and-ready rebel MP Petr Kott, the man who may or may not have been paralytic in parliament last week. More
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What looks like the final instalment in the TV Nova saga dominates the
front pages today - all the papers lead with news that the Czech Republic
finally paid 335 million dollars in compensation to the station's former
investors on Thursday, after the country lost a final appeal in an
international court of arbitration. The papers also carry more details of
Vladimir Zelezny's dramatic departure from the post of General Director.
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Two domestic stories share the limelight on today's front pages - they are
the dismissal of TV NOVA boss Vladimir Zelezny and the continuing search
for a blackmailer who has threatened to poison hospital food with cyanide
unless he receives 300 million crowns.
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