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August the 22nd, 2022 - Hrvatska kuca (Croatian house) will certainly make a mark in Qatar as we head towards the World Cup, set to take place in that Arab peninsula country. As Morski writes, the Croatian national football team will go to the World Cup in Qatar to defend the silver from Russia, and will have an even stronger presence owing to the sensational and spectacular Hrvatska kuca (Croatian house) located down by the sea. All of the necessary contracts have been signed and all of the permits for the future Hrvatska kuca have been secured, meaning that during…

August the 22nd, 2022 - Croatian Agriculture Minister Marija Vuckovic has announced a very welcome 200 million kuna package of measures for the enfeebled agriculture sector, brought to its knees with worry over the ongoing drought. As Morski writes, due to the severe drought, the Ministry of Agriculture has announced an extraordinary measure for farmers worth around 200 million kuna, as revealed by Minister Marija Vuckovic on Sunday in Zlatar Bistrica in Krapina-Zagorje County. Due to the severe drought and extreme temperatures, Croatian farmers from up and down the country asked the aforementioned ministry for a moratorium to be placed…

August the 22nd, 2022 - The Croatian Public Health Institute (HZJZ) has announced some changes regarding the coronavirus booster vaccine, dropping the age at which individuals can come and get another booster dose of the vaccine. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, on Friday last week, the Croatian Public Health Institute (HZJZ) lowered the age limit for people wanting to come and get a second booster dose against COVID-19, which is now being recommended for everyone over the age of sixty and especially in the case of immunocompromised or adults with other sorts of health issues. In the amended Croatian Public Health Institute…

ZAGREB, 21 August, 2022 - Istria County head Boris Miletić decided on Saturday to ease a restriction on the use of drinking water in the county, thanks to a better hydrological situation. Drinking water from the public supply system can now be used again to water sports grounds, wash cars, vessels, trucks, and public transport vehicles, and at beach showers, a press release said. A ban remains on using drinking water to water public and private green spaces and to wash streets, squares, and public spaces, except farmers' and fish markets. A decision to restrict the use of drinking water in Istria County was…

ZAGREB, 21 August, 2022 - The traditional 20th pilgrimage of horse-ridden carriages and horsemen was held in Croatia's central Marian shrine of Marija Bistrica on Sunday, and the event called "Vozočašće" in Croatian was organised by the horse breeders association in Krapina-Zagorje County. Addressing the event, Agriculture Minister Marija Vučković, promised further help to the horse-breeding sector. The agriculture ministry's state secretary, Zdravko Tušek, said that currently, there are over 30,000 horses in Croatia, and 700 of them are in Krapina-Zagorje County, where there are also over 300 horse breeders. The county's prefect, Željko Kolar, said that "Vozočašće" pilgrimage contributes to…

ZAGREB, 21 August, 2022 - Croatian Vanesa Tot on Sunday won the bronze in the women's canoe single 200 metres at the European Championships in Munich after she was recently third in the canoe single 500m. The European champion in today's women's single 200 metres was Antia Jacome of Spain (48.642), and Ukrainian Liudmyla Luzan grabbed the silver. The 23-year old Tot was just 0.05 seconds faster than the fourth-placed Polish canoeist Katarzyna Szperkiewicz.

ZAGREB, 21 August, 2022 - The Istrian town of Barban, which is hosting "Trka Na Prstenac" traditional tournament of horsemen on 19-21 August, was also the venue of a robotic race called "Robotrka na Prstenac" on Saturday, bringing together teams of school-age children interested in robotics. This event attracted 48 participants from 16 teams from Istria and the island of Krk, and the organisers said that the purpose of this robo race is to motivate school-age children to be active in informatics and STEM-related fields, according to a press release issued by the Bit kids 101 association. The robo race is one of the accompanying events…

ZAGREB, 21 August, 2022 - This year's Week of Štrudla gastronomic event will be held in Karlovac County over two weeks, from 29 August to 11 September. The gastronomic event is dedicated to a local pastry called štrudla (strudel). Director of the Regional Tourist Board of Karlovac County, Željko Fanjak, said at a press conference in Rastoke near Slunj last Thursday that in order to extend the tourist season 40 hotels, restaurants and family-run farms had joined the event. So far, we have had about 20 restaurants, and now we have 40 in 12 of the total of 22 local…

ZAGREB, 21 August, 2022 - The exhibition called "Archaeology from the Air" showing some attractive aerial photographs of archaeological sites in Croatia was opened in Dubrovnik last Thursday. The event, which will run through 1 October, aims at presenting some of the most interesting and attractive aerial photographs of archaeological sites. The authors of the exhibition are Miroslav Vuković of the Department of Archaeology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, and Jacqueline Balen of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb. Archaeology and aerial photography share a common history that goes back to the beginning of the 20th century when the…

ZAGREB, 21 August, 2022 -  In the last 24 hours, Croatia has conducted 2,384 coronavirus tests, and 27% of them, that is 639, have turned out to be positive, the national COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Sunday. There are currently 6,529 active cases, and of them, 587 are hospitalised patients, including 22 patients placed on ventilators. In the last 24 hours, 12 patients have succumbed to COVID-19, and Croatia's COVID-related death toll now stands at 16,571. Since the first registered case of this infectious disease on 25 February 2020 in the country, the health authorities have diagnosed 1,206,587 cases while performing over…