the Czech Republic has announced two employees of the Russian Embassy persona non grata. On Friday, June 5, announced Czech Prime Minister Andrew Babish at a joint press-conference Minister of foreign Affairs Tomas, Peter, informs Czech radio.
the Prime Minister stressed that the incident with the poison that allegedly was driven to the territory of Prague with the aim of poisoning the Czech politicians, has damaged “the good name” of Russia.
According to Thomas, Peter, diplomatic settlement of the conflict impossible. He noted that the Czech authorities have repeatedly appealed to the Russian Embassy, but it did not bring results.
In may, the Czech media reported that a man with a Russian diplomatic passport brought to Prague a deadly poison. The purpose of it was poisoning the mayor of the district Prague 6 ondřej Kolář and primator of Prague, Zdenek Griba who are involved in the demolition of the monument to Marshal Konev and assigning front of the Embassy of the Russian Federation Boris Nemtsov.
it was Argued that this Russian is allegedly acting head of mission of Rossotrudnichestvo in the Czech Republic Andrey Kondakov. The result of the Czech journalists campaign of harassment and anti-Russian campaign, one of the diplomats began to receive threats.
the Russian foreign Ministry publication called baseless attacks and threatened consequences, the foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic was sent a note.
After these events, Peter praised the bilateral relations on the deuce and hopes to start consultations at the level of foreign Ministers. The Russian Embassy informed the Czech Ministry of readiness for consultations, but no response was received.
