Wednesday

Chronicle of October 7, 2026

40 entries

• The Constitutional Court rejected a group of senators' motion to annul the government decree on protection of health from adverse effects of noise and vibration, so noise limits in the Czech Republic remain unchanged.

  ČTK / České noviny · ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · Seznam Zprávy · iROZHLAS
  

• Twenty-year-old Kristýna Kotásková from Hodonín completed a walk of over 2,200 kilometres from Hodonín to Rome, undertaken to support an animal shelter.

  Blesk.cz · Novinky.cz
  

• The film Kluci to vidí jinak než holky by director David Ondříček, a loose follow-up to his film Samotáři, will open in Czech cinemas on 22 October.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• The Liberec Tunnel on road I/35 will be gradually closed tube by tube from 9 to 12 October 2026 for routine maintenance, with traffic reduced to a 1+1 regime.

  Deník: Liberecký kraj · Liberecká Drbna
  

• The Prague 4 District Court sentenced former IKEM deputy director Jiří Malý to a fine of 50,000 crowns and former IT department head Petr Raška to 80,000 crowns for extorting cardiac surgeons Jan Pirk and Ivan Netuka, the verdict is not final.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS · ČT24 · Novinky.cz · Seznam Zprávy · iDNES.cz
  

• The Prague Public Transit Company began construction of a tram line from Libuš to Nové Dvory, which the company OHLA ŽS will build for 1.26 billion koruna, with trams expected to run from the end of 2028.

  Pražský deník · Pražský patriot · Blesk.cz · Pražská Drbna · Parlamentní listy
  

• The regional drought commission declared a state of water scarcity on the Vltava and Elbe in Central Bohemia and approved reducing the minimum outflow from the Vltava Cascade at the Vrané dam from 35 to 20 cubic metres per second until 30 April 2027.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · ČT24 · iDNES.cz · Lidovky.cz · iROZHLAS
  

• Interior Minister Lubomír Metnar (ANO) rejected First Lady Eva Pavlová's criticism of the communal elections, saying the electoral system would not be changed just because President Petr Pavel had planned a holiday on the election date.

  ČTK / České noviny · Echo24 · iROZHLAS · Deník.cz · FORUM 24 · ČT24
  

• The head of the Russian delegation to the OSCE forum in Vienna, Yulia Zhdanova, accused the Czech Republic of being an accomplice in the war in Ukraine over drone deliveries to the Ukrainian army.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · FORUM 24 · iDNES.cz
  

• A prosecutor has charged an eighteen-year-old girl and her thirty-year-old boyfriend over last year's murder of her mother and attempted murder of her father in Bohuňovice in the Olomouc Region, with the case to be heard by the Regional Court in Olomouc.

  Deník: Olomoucký kraj · iDNES.cz · ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz
  

• A fire in a sixth-floor flat of a panel building in Ostrava-Poruba left a 39-year-old man severely burned, and he was taken to a burns centre in critical condition.

  Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj · Deník: Moravskoslezský kraj · Ostravská Drbna · iDNES.cz
  

• Prague's Technical Road Administration announced a separate tender for completing the unfinished part of the Libeňský most, which had to be mothballed after intervention by the Úřad pro ochranu hospodářské soutěže.

  Blesk.cz · Pražský deník · Ekonomický deník
  

• MP Filip Turek declared his apology to Hnutí Duha, published under a court ruling, sufficient, while the organisation insists he has not fulfilled his obligation.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS · iDNES.cz · Novinky.cz · Lidovky.cz · Blesk.cz
  

• The Regional Court in Plzeň sentenced a 29-year-old man for intoxication to eight years in prison for stabbing his brother and father in November 2024, ruling that after serving his sentence he will be placed in a secure detention facility; the verdict is not final.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz · Deník: Plzeňský kraj
  

• Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) has called another meeting of the National Coalition against Drought for 12 October, after the South Bohemian Husinec reservoir nearly dried up.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS · Echo24 · Ekonomický deník · Ekolist.cz
  

• A new P+R parking house for 495 cars was opened in Opatov, Prague 11, near Opatov metro station and the D1 motorway.

  Pražský deník · iDNES.cz · Pražský patriot
  

• At Náměstí Jana Palacha in Prague, several hundred people marked the third anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, with Minister Boris Šťastný and Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda attending.

  iDNES.cz · Pražský deník · Lidovky.cz · Echo24
  

• The High Court finally reduced the sentence for businessman Jiří Benáčan to five years in prison for keeping 14 million korunas that a Prague hospital on Vinohradská street had mistakenly transferred to him.

  Pražský deník · iDNES.cz · Pražská Drbna
  

• The European Public Prosecutor's Office indicted four people in Ostrava and proposed that the Municipal Court in Prague approve plea agreements for another four in connection with a large-scale VAT fraud involving the import of electronics, which caused damage exceeding 4.8 billion korunas.

  Novinky.cz · Hospodářské noviny · Echo24

• The public prosecutor's office has filed charges against a former deputy director of the Central Military Hospital for forging a security clearance certificate, with the main trial at the Prague 6 District Court set to begin on 29 October.

  iROZHLAS · Blesk.cz · Pražský deník
  

• Ester Ledecká announced at a press conference that her new skiing coaches for the upcoming season will be Austrians Karlheinz Pichler and Gernot Grasser, while Justin Reiter remains her snowboard coach.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS · Deník.cz
  

• Finance Minister Alena Schillerová said on the television channel Nova that she will propose raising the tax deduction for mortgages by up to CZK 50,000 for people under 36, effective from next year.

  Hospodářské noviny · iDNES.cz · Echo24
  

• The Supreme Court rejected an appeal on points of law by Prosecutor General Lenka Bradáčová against the discontinuation of criminal proceedings in the case of a fatal road accident that police say was caused by the former chairman of the board of GZ Media.

  Seznam Zprávy · iROZHLAS

• Conservationists and volunteers have returned more than 70,000 freshwater mussels to the water along the shores of the Slapy Reservoir, where the water level is falling because of hydrological drought.

  ČTK / České noviny · Ekolist.cz
  

• The ČEZ Group signed a contract to sell its 49 percent stake in Jadrová energetická spoločnosť Slovenska, which is preparing a new nuclear power plant in Jaslovské Bohunice, to the Slovak state for 189 million euros.

  E15 · Ekonomický deník
  

• The Road and Motorway Directorate is repairing the D5 motorway in the Plzeň Region between kilometres 88 and 94, from Líně to Nýřany; the first part of the work will last until the end of November, the second from spring to summer.

  Deník: Plzeňský kraj · Plzeňská Drbna

• Minister of Culture Oto Klempíř criticised Czech writer Radka Denemarková's speech at the opening ceremony of the Frankfurt Book Fair, where she referred to his collaboration with the communist State Security in the 1980s.

  ČTK / České noviny · Seznam Zprávy · FORUM 24
  

• A lorry carrying a drilling rig on a low-loader became wedged under a railway bridge on Vídeňská street in Prague; firefighters plan to free it with a recovery tank, and nobody was injured.

  ČTK / České noviny · iROZHLAS
  

• The Moravian Lance exercise is under way in the Libavá military training area, where the Czech army, with more than a thousand soldiers and a unit of the US National Guard from Nebraska, is testing drones, ground robotic systems and other new technologies.

  Deník.cz · iDNES.cz · iROZHLAS
  

• Scientists from Masaryk University announced the discovery of two spider species not previously recorded in Czechia: the jumping spider Attulus inexpectus near Rakvice and the cobweb spider Crustulina sticta near Dubňany in South Moravia.

  Deník.cz · iDNES.cz: Brno · Brněnská Drbna
  

• A statue of the dog Fin, popular among visitors to Lužánky Park in Brno, was unveiled; 113 people contributed to its production and the remaining costs were covered by subsidies from the South Moravian Region and the city of Brno and a sponsorship gift from the café Ponava Café.

  Deník: Jihomoravský kraj · Deník: Jihomoravský kraj
  

• Marcela Antošová, a long-time presenter of Czech Radio Brno, has died.

  Český rozhlas Brno · Deník: Jihomoravský kraj
  

• A lorry carrying a drilling rig became wedged in the evening under a railway bridge in Vídeňská Street in Prague 4, and Prague firefighters were still working to free it the next day with the help of a recovery tank.

  Echo24 · Pražská Drbna · Novinky.cz
  

• The band Olympic launched its compilation album 21 nej, a follow-up to the 1976 compilation 12 nej, on Střelecký ostrov in Prague and presented a video for the new song Až to Stouni zabalí.

  ČTK / České noviny · Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz
  

• Because of drought and a falling water level in the Lipno Reservoir, the so-called Heart of the Vltava, a meander of the river's original bed that was flooded when the reservoir was filled, is emerging again.

  Novinky.cz · iDNES.cz · Budějcká Drbna
  

• The actor Miloslav Kopečný, known for his stage roles and for the film Bony a klid, died in Prague at the age of 82.

  ČTK / České noviny · iDNES.cz

• A Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IXe fighter aircraft, which flew in from Australia and was bought by the owner of the company Seznam.cz, landed at Točná Airport in Prague for the first time; the airport plans a formal presentation of it for 19 October 2026.

  Plzeňská Drbna · Pražská Drbna · iROZHLAS
  

• The Czech Statistical Office published figures for August 2026 showing that industrial output grew by 2.6 percent year on year, after 3.1 percent in July, while construction output fell by 1.4 percent.

  ČT24 · Seznam Zprávy · Novinky.cz
  

• The Prague Public Transit Company put into trial operation a pair of step-free tram stops called Hodkovičky in Prague, built over nine months at a cost of nearly CZK 30 million excluding VAT.

  iDNES.cz · Pražský deník
  

• The Západočeská galerie v Plzni in the Plzeň Region presents the exhibition Zbyněk Sekal: Milované bytosti in its Masné krámy exhibition hall, made up of 102 works by the sculptor from a gift from his estate; the exhibition is planned to run until 7 March 2027.

  Deník: Plzeňský kraj · Český rozhlas Plzeň
  

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