Built in the 1950s as a monument to the fraternal relations between Moscow and Prague, the spacious and imposing Czech embassy in the heart of the Russian capital was designed for many workers. Today, its five accredited diplomats can each have three floors of the complex on their own.
It has been the number of staff at the embassy the greatest victims diplomatic war tit-for-tat expulsions In the last fortnight between Russia and Western countries, 152 officials from foreign embassies or foreign embassies in Moscow have lost accreditation.
Most expulsions involve countries in Eastern Europe with historical ties to Russia, from the Baltic to Bulgaria, stressing the region’s dire state of ties with Moscow and the difficulty of rebuilding relations with remaining diplomats.