Ostrava, Czech Republic News

The Czech police have seized about one million litres of untaxed alcohol in tanks buried underground at more places in Bohemia and Moravia within their enquiry into the scandal with lethal bootleg spirits, Robert Slachta, head of the police squad for uncovering organised crime, said today.

One of the Czech Republic's best known soccer clubs has just escaped bankruptcy and expulsion from the first division.

Valtr Komarek, honorary chairman of the opposition Czech Social Democrats , one of the major protagonists of the communist regime's fall in 1989, died after a long illness aged 82 today, the server iDnes.cz has said, referring to his son Martin Komarek.

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The biggest Czech public health insurance provider VZP announced the first five medications that are on the so-called 'positive list'. The list, which the insurance company is launching this month, consists of prescribed medications for no co-payment fee will be charged at the pharmacy.

Baby boomers have started attending Czech primary schools the capacity of which is not sufficient, and this is why some will have over 30 and more first graders in a class, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes writes Monday.