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Vrbetice, near the Czech Republic s border with Slovakia, is the last place you d expect to play host to the murky world of international espionage.
The village, with a population of around 300, is set deep in the countryside of central Moravia, in the country s far east.
But things turned ugly in 2014 when a munitions depot at a former army complex of warehouses and factories jn the village sealed-off with barbed wire and “keep out” signs exploded in a towering fireball. Two employees were killed and much of the complex was levelled to the ground.
The blast was such that farmers in nearby fields were reportedly thrown to the ground. Debris scattered for miles around.
Czechs expel 18 Russians over 2014 arms depot blasts
Russian troll factories, mafia
Jiri Pehe, a political analyst and former advisor to former President Vaclav Havel, argues referring to Russian conduct as state terrorism is justified. Unfortunately, he says, Russia s hostile activities in the Czech Republic go well beyond these actions. Pehe says thousands of Russian business people work for the Russian state, troll factories and the Russian mafia. He says the Russian embassy in Prague is completely oversized, with a staff over more than 100 people. We don‘t know what half of them actually do.
Although the Czech government claims to have hard evidence Russian GRU agents conducted the October and December 2014 blasts at the Vrbetice arms depot, certain aspects of the affair remain shrouded in mystery.