“the Czechs and Slovaks were doing the Sudeten Germans a favor by expelling them, because they granted them their wish to go Heim ins Reich”
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Miloš Zeman
Miloš Zeman is a Czech politician who served as the third president of the Czech Republic from 2013 to 2023. He also previously served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party from 1993 to 2001, he is credited with the revival of the party into one of the country's major political forces. Zeman briefly served as the President of…
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2026· 7 entries
“s anti-European rhetoric. He also accused Turkey of allying with ISIL in its fight against Syrian Kurds. United States and NATO Zeman, who played a role in the Czech Republic”
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“good old medieval way: burn them, piss on them and salt them”
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Around Prague: Darcy, the dog whose antics once led ex-president Zeman to fall and injure his knee, has died
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Around Prague: At 82, Zeman Doesn't Rule Out Another Run for Czech President
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Super.cz: Miloš Zeman a jeho rodina truchlí! Zemřel jejich miláček Darcy. Manželka několik dní proplakala, svěřil se státník
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Radio Prague International: Miloš Zeman brinda su corazón a los ciudadanos y su intelecto al servicio de la República
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2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Miloš Zeman: One Politician's Obituary and Celebration of Vysočina
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2024· 1 entry
San Diego Union-Tribune: Former Czech President Milos Zeman released from a hospital after surgery for a blood clot
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2022· 1 entry
Won Presidential Medal of Distinction presented by Isaac Herzog in Prague (2022).
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2020· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Republic of Serbia presented by Aleksandar Vučić (2020).
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2018· 2 entries
Jewish Press: Miloš Zeman Visits Jerusalem
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Observer: How Czech President Miloš Zeman Became Putin’s Man
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2016· 5 entries
Awarded Order of the White Eagle (Third Polish Republic) presented by Andrzej Duda in Prague (2016).
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Awarded Order 8-September presented by Gjorge Ivanov in Skopje (2016).
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Awarded Decoration for Exceptional Merits presented by Borut Pahor in Prague (2016).
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Invited Chinese president Xi Jinping on a state visit, which sparked a wave of protest
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Following a number of terror attacks around Europe, Zeman joined a number of other Czech politicians and security professionals in urging the 240,000 gun owners in the country with concealed carry licences to carry their
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded Order of al-Hussein bin Ali presented by Abdullah II of Jordan in Amman (2015).
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Published “Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> <mml:mi>p</mml:mi> </mml:math> Collisions at <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:msqrt> <mml:mi>s</mml:mi> </mml:msqrt> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mn>7</mml:mn> </mml:math> and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments” in Physical Review Letters — cited 804 times.
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Zeman, in response to a letter from a group of Czech and Ukrainian historians defending Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), wrote: "I would like to point out that President Yushche
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2014· 5 entries
Awarded Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany presented by Joachim Gauck in Prague (2014).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross presented by Ivan Gašparovič in Prague (2014).
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Attracted criticism when he said he wished to learn how China had "stabilized" its society
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“So let me quote one of their [Islamic] sacred texts to support this statement:”
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Stated his opposition to the formation of an independent Kosovan army, equating it to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)
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2013· 6 entries
Awarded Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st class (2013).
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Awarded Grand cross of the Order of the White Lion (2013).
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Career landmark: President of the Czech Republic (2013–2023).
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Published “Efficient solar water splitting by enhanced charge separation in a bismuth vanadate-silicon tandem photoelectrode” in Nature Communications — cited 1,287 times.
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Published “Causes and consequences of replication stress” in Nature Cell Biology — cited 1,967 times.
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Zeman was elected president of the Czech Republic, becoming the first directly elected president in the nation's history; his predecessors were elected by the Parliament
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,805 times.
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2011· 1 entry
“The enemy is the anti-civilization spreading from North Africa to Indonesia. Two billion people live in it and it is financed partly from oil sales and partly from drug sales.”
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2010· 3 entries
Šlouf and Martin Nejedlý, a representative of the Russian oil company LUKoil in the Czech Republic, were the main donors to his Party of Civic Rights – Zemanovci, but Zeman denied that he had any connection with Lukoil
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Published “Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a new name for the vegetative state or apallic syndrome” in BMC Medicine — cited 1,052 times.
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Career landmark: party leader (2010–2010).
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2007· 1 entry
Prague City court ruled that Zeman had unlawfully accused journalist Ivan Brezina of corruption
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2003· 1 entry
But was eliminated after his own party members did not vote for him
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2002· 2 entries
To become the ČSSD nominee for president, but lost the 2003 presidential election to Václav Klaus, due to party disunity
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German chancellor Gerhard Schröder cancelled an official visit to Prague after Zeman called the ethnic Germans in pre-war Czechoslovakia "Hitler's Fifth column"
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2000· 2 entries
With Vízek convicted of falsification of the memorandum by copying signatures from earlier documents
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Prague City court ordered Zeman to apologise to politician Miroslav Macek after he described him as a "thief"
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1999· 2 entries
When Zeman was prime minister
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One of Zeman's advisers, Jaroslav Novotný, allegedly blackmailed the director of the state-owned Štiřín Castle, Václav Hrubý
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1998· 3 entries
Career landmark: Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (1998–2002).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (1998–2002).
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ČSSD won the election and Zeman became Prime Minister of a minority government, which he led for the next four years
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1997· 1 entry
Zeman accused his party colleague Jozef Wagner of wanting to join the Communist Party after leaving his faction in the Chamber of Deputies
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1996· 3 entries
Before the legislative election, Zeman met with Czech-Swiss entrepreneur Jan Vízek in the German city of Bamberg
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Career landmark: Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (1996–1998).
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Career landmark: Chair of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (1996–1998).
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1994· 1 entry
His daughter from the second, Kateřina Zemanová (born 1 January 1994), was one of the most visible faces in Zeman's presidential election team.
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1993· 4 entries
Married his assistant Ivana Bednarčíková (born 29 April 1965)
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Was elected chairman of the party, and in the following years he transformed it into one of the country's major parties
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Zeman lost his lawsuit over his defamatory statement towards former police officer Milan Hruška
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Career landmark: party leader (1993–2001).
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1992· 1 entry
Ran successfully for the House of the People of the Federal Assembly, already as a member of the Czechoslovak Social Democracy (ČSSD), which he joined the same year
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1990· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia (1990–1992).
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Zeman became a member of the House of the Nations of the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly
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1989· 2 entries
Joined the Czech Social Democratic Party, which he led into the 1996 election
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As a result of a critical article he had written in Technický magazín in August 1989, entitled "Prognostika a přestavba" (Forecasting and Perestroika)
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1969· 1 entry
Studied at Prague University of Economics and Business (1965–1969).
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1968· 3 entries
But was expelled two years later due to his opposition to the Warsaw Pact invasion
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During the Prague Spring, but was expelled in 1970 due to his opposition to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
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As a day commemorating the victims, describing it as "absolute insolence"
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-09-28.
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1939· 1 entry
“In the past months I have been fighting anti-Russian fools, but most recently I have had to fight anti-American fools as well, since fools are evenly spread on both sides. ... I disagree with the U.S. troops being labelled an occupation army for one simple reason. We experienced occupation twice last century [1939 and 1968] and we know what it looks like.”
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