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Activist support for Israel, criticism of the UN, plus cutting aid to Africa and underestimating diplomatic contacts. According to foreign policy experts, a ....
Czechmate? What’s behind the downward spiral in Czech-Russian relations A woman holds an EU flag next to police officers during a protest over the Russian intelligence services alleged involvement in an ammunition depot explosion in 2014, outside the Russian Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 18, 2021. Photo by David W Cerny/Reuters. Over the past few months, the Czech people have experienced two major events that are transforming their worldview . For much of fall 2020 through spring 2021, the country topped the charts of per-capita COVID-19 infections and deaths. Most Czechs were truly shocked to see their nation doing so poorly, having typically been safe from outside threats given the country’s bordering mountains and friendly neighbors. In addition, as a former Soviet satellite, the country was “quarantined” from the world by the Iron Curtain. ....
The Czech government issued a resolution on Monday which excludes the Russian state corporation Rosatom from the Dukovany power plant tender. The decision comes in the aftermath of recently surfaced evidence that suggests Russia’s military intelligence was involved in the 2014 explosion at the munitions storage facility in Vrbětice. The Czech government has been planning to expand one of the country’s two nuclear power plants - Dukovany - for several years now. The aim is to construct a new bloc (referred to as Dukovany II) which should help wean the Czech Republic off coal and meet the European Union’s environmental goals. One of the companies vying to win the EUR 6 billion tender has been Rosatom, a Russian state corporation founded by Vladimir Putin in 2007. ....
Czech-Russian relations hit new low after Prague accuses Moscow of 'state-sponsored terrorism' · Global Voices globalvoices.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalvoices.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.