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CULTURAL EXCHANGES: An expected agreement between the legislatures would include commitments to share information in fields that are mutually beneficialBy Su Yung-yao and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The European Union condemned Russia’s expulsion of 20 Czech diplomats from their embassy in Moscow, and the Czech Republic responded by expelling Russian diplomats of their own. This week’s events mark a deepening of the worst diplomatic row between the two countries since the end of the Cold War.
The origins of the diplomatic hostilities lie back in 2014, when two explosions rocked an ammunitions facility in the eastern Czech Republic, killing two and leading to the evacuation of several hundred. The explosion was assumed by most to have been an accident until 17 April 2021, when Czech prime minister Andrej Babis accused the GRU (Russian military intelligence) of orchestrating the attacks, linking them back to two individuals using the names Ruslan Borishov and Alexander Petrov. Those two individuals are most infamous for carrying out a 2018 nerve agent attack on English soil against an ex-Russian spy and his daughter. The attack in England was a failure, killing two innocent b
Czech PM s Remarks On 2014 Blasts Trigger Outrage, Underscore Split Over Russia Ties
April 20, 2021 16:54 GMT
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Revelations that two Russian spies accused of a nerve-agent poisoning in Britain in 2018 may have been behind earlier explosions at a Czech ammunition depot that killed two people sparked outrage and anger in the Czech Republic.
The allegations by Czech intelligence have plunged relations between Prague and Moscow to their lowest level since the end of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe in 1989.
Amid the escalation of tensions, Prague has expelled 18 Russian diplomats, and Moscow, which dismisses any role in the blasts and described it as a provocation concocted by Washington, has kicked out 20 Czech Embassy staff in Moscow.