Excited to have an interview on my university website due to my doctoral thesis on Czech news representations now being official!
(The link goes to my intro chapter mainly, if you would actually like the whole thesis in one pdf, send direct message, please.)
ℹ Estonian Foreign Minister Margus #Tsahkna said that #Tallinn is considering joining the Czech-led initiative to buy critically-needed artillery shells for #Ukraine, #Czech media outlet Ceske Noviny reported
The initial quantity of 800,000 shells in February has since, reported by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, increased to a total of one million shells - a mix of 155mm and 122mm shells
Nr. 2 of @afd European Parliament election list audio-taped receiving Russian intelligence bribe.
Czech counter-intelligence agendy @biscz have audio recording of German Member of Bundestag @PetrBystronAfD receiving money from Russian espionage. Bystroň is also foreign policy spokesperson of the Bundestag fraction of Russian Alternative for Germany.
ℹ #Athens is preparing to extend another security assistance package to #Kyiv, including missiles, artillery, and ammunition, Greek outlet eKathimerini reported on March 15
The report details that the equipment will be contracted by #Czechia and sent directly to #Ukraine. #Czech and #Greece officials are currently negotiating the prices for these systems before shaking on the deal
Czechs protested the meeting of Czech and Hungarian prime ministers in Prague over their position on the war in Ukraine. Despite differences on Ukraine, the Czech prime minister believes the Visegrad format still makes sense. #Czech#Ukraine
@GottaLaff the issue is that #Ukraine needs a lot more than just some long distance missiles, they need artillery munition, more C90s and Bradly, ammunition to hand held weapons, air defense missiles, military grade drones and so on...
Let see how it goes with the #Czech munition, that will be really needed at the front lines and would boost the moral too.
Today in Labor History February 11, 1938: BBC Television produced the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot." He derived the word “robot” from the Czech word for forced labor by Serfs. R.U.R. is an archetype for many of the science fiction stories and films that followed, like Bladerunner, West World and Terminator, and others about robots, replicants and hosts that rebel against humans. However, “R.U.R.,” like Čapek’s 1936 novel “War with the Newts,” is also a satirical critique of totalitarianism, which was already on the rise in Europe at the time he wrote the play.
#EU / Prague, Budapest hold up EU move to sanction violent Israeli settlers
Efforts by the European Union to impose sanctions on Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank have been stalled due to objections from #Hungary and the #Czech Republic. The two allies of #Israel blocked the sanctions proposal in an EU committee meeting, with Hungary saying now is "definitely not the time" for such measures.