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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.
A major crisis in relations between Prague and Moscow has reached a new plateau, with the Czech government expelling dozens of Russian Embassy staff following revelations of deadly Russian operations on Czech soil. Experts say the Kremlin is likely to retaliate further, while President Zeman’s first response is much-anticipated.
The most intense dispute between the Czech Republic and Russia in decades reached a new level on Thursday.
Following the revelation that Russian intelligence agents were behind deadly explosions in Moravia in 2014, and subsequent tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats, Czech Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhánek said his government would impose parity of staff numbers between the Russian Embassy in Prague and the Czech Embassy in Moscow.
Russiaâs Ties With West Fray Further After Czech Republic Expels Its Diplomats
About 60 Russian diplomats were ordered out of the Czech Republic, which said it had evidence of Moscowâs involvement in an ammunition dump explosion in 2014.
A wall near the Russian embassy in Prague on Thursday.Credit.Michal Cizek/Agence France-Presse â Getty Images
By Hana de Goeij and Andrew Higgins
April 22, 2021Updated 2:14 p.m. ET
PRAGUE â Russiaâs unraveling relations with the West took a dramatic turn for the worse on Thursday when the Czech Republic, furious over what it said were Moscowâs fingerprints on a military-style sabotage attack on a Czech weapons warehouse in 2014, ordered the expulsion of as many as 60 Russian diplomats.
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