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IRAQ The Iraqi Oil Ministry has awarded a consortium of companies led by the Czech firm Technoexport a 2.5 billion Kč ($119 million) contract to provide equipment to refineries in Iraq, the companies announced May 24. That the former Czechoslovakia helped build some 60 percent of Iraq’s refining capacity aided the bidding, the companies said.

STERILIZED A District State Attorney’s office in north Bohemia ruled that the forced sterilization of women is a crime, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported May 28. The decision is expected to affect outstanding complaints by local Romany, or Gypsy, women that doctors sterilized them without their consent. The cases had been shelved because previous legal precedence held the doctors not criminally responsible, ČTK said.
EMBASSY The U.S. Embassy is launching an online service June 1 that allows visa applicants to schedule their visa appointments online, the embassy said in a press release. The online service at Prague.usembassy.org replaces a telephone appointment system. The service, for nonimmigrant applicants only, is free.
LABOR CODE The Confederation of Industry and the ČMKOS labor union have agreed on 16 amendments to the new Labor Code, Hospodářské noviny reported May 29. The amendments will simplify administrative tasks and close loopholes in the code, which came into effect Jan. 1. With bipartisan support, the amendment is expected to easily pass in Parliament.
MEMORIAL Russia would consider the removal of a memorial to Soviet soldiers in Brno, south Moravia, a hostile gesture, the Russian consulate in Brno told ČTK May 28. The stone monument commemorates 326 Red Army soldiers who died liberating the city at the end of World War II. A Brno deputy mayor has called the memorial a “monster.”


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