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One person is featured on most covers of today's dailies and that is Czech
actress Jirina Bohdalova, the popular star of countless movies, who won an
important case in court on Wednesday against the Interior Ministry. Mrs
Bohdalova filed charges after the ministry included her name on a list
last year outlining collaborators with the former communist regime's
secret police, the StB. However, MLADA FRONTA DNES indicates that in spite
of her success the actress remains unhappy with the ruling. The reason? At
the end of day her name will not be struck from the records in keeping
with a current law that stipulates only a footnote can be added. That has
left the actress far from satisfied and she now plans to appeal.
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Current AffairsRegulated rents to rise by 10 percent in three consecutive years
The ruling coalition has agreed on a government regulation which would send
the price of rents in regulated tenement flats up by 10 percent in three
consecutive years. At the end of that time - described as a transitional
period - Parliament should debate a new law on regulated rents. Although
the coalition is happy with the compromise -landlords accuse the
government of dragging its feet and refusing to take measures which would
help to correct the distortion of the Czech housing market. We asked
economic analyst Radomir Jac what he thinks of the new government
regulation:
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The return home of two Czech prisoners serving 50 year jail sentences for
heroin smuggling in Thailand is splashed across today's front pages.
"Handcuffed, behind bars, but home" reads the lead headline in Mlada Fronta Dnes.
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All today's front pages are dominated by reports on Thursday's blasts in
the Turkish city of Istanbul accompanied by photos of the scenes of
destruction. The papers also carry statements by the US President George
W. Bush and the British Prime Minister Tony Blair condemning the attacks.
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Topic's this week: Cooking programmes. Castles and Chateaux. Salaries.
Rent. Foreigners in football clubs, listener looking for free Czech
lessons in the UK. Listeners quoted: "Bobby" from Atlanta,
William Allan, Ken Skrbin, Tomas Fields, Nii Nortey Akiwumi, listener from
Italy.
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Current AffairsTown evicts roma families over rent
The town hall of Slany near Prague has begun a war on defaulters. Over the
weekend several Roma families were forced out of their apartments. With
nowhere to go, they now live on the street. While the authorities claim
the drastic step was a last resort, the town's Roma community has accused
them of discrimination. Mirna Solic reports:
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Talking PointFab prefabs: a look at the panelaky
Communist-era housing in the Czech Republic is typified by the apartment
buildings known in Czech as "panelaky," or panel buildings.
While the communist system that bore them fell thirteen years ago, the
panelaky remain living monuments to socialist realism - housing projects
for the masses that aimed to promote socialist development.
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Current AffairsThe changing face of panelaky
Hundreds of thousands of Czechs live in "panelaky" - the concrete
panel apartment buildings that were constructed during the communist era.
These buildings are often criticised for being depressingly drab and
poorly constructed, but life in them has generally improved since the fall
of communism - and some people think that life in a panelak is still the
way to go.
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Current AffairsPutting social housing high on the political agenda
This week over 120 representatives from EU member states and candidate
countries met in Prague for a two day workshop co-organized by the United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe, the European Liaison Committee for
Social Housing and the Czech Ministry for Regional Development. The main
aim of the meeting was to hammer out a common definition of social housing
and put it high on the political agenda - in view of the planned expansion
of the EU. Hubert Van Eyck is vice president of the UNEC's Committee on
Human Settlements:
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Business NewsOpinions remain divided over thorny issue of rent deregulation
The coalition government of the Social Democrats, and the junior partners
the Christian Democrats and the right-of-centre Freedom Union cannot reach
agreement over the controversial issue of state controlled rents for about
200,000 homes in the Czech Republic. A new proposal submitted by the
Christian Democrats a week ago seems to have raised the temperature still
more.
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