Moscow. June 6. INTERFAX.RU Moscow mirror response to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the Czech Republic and will consider this step in building a foreign policy in respect of that state, said the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
“Most importantly, it will not only return mirror or symmetrical measures, but of course it will be all taken into account in building the course in this state,” she said.
She said the decision of the Czech authorities as “hostile” and “obscene” act.
On the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from Prague, 5 June announced Prime Minister Czech Republic Andrew Babish and foreign Minister Tomas Peter. Prague explained this decision data of the Czech intelligence services that “one of the employees of the Russian Embassy released false information about the planned attack on Czech politicians”.
In early April in Prague was dismantled a monument to Marshal Konev, at the Russian Embassy responded with a note of protest. Then in the Czech mass-media there were publications about the arrival in Prague of a man with a Russian diplomatic passport, and whose baggage was supposedly the poison ricin intended for the poisoning of Prague officials.
According to the magazine Respekt, the man was met by a car of the Russian Embassy and was taken to the building of the Embassy. The poison may have been intended for the mayor of the district Prague 6 Andrea Kolář and the mayor of Prague Zdenek Griba. The reason for the assassination attempt on the mayor Respekt he called his decision to name the square in front of Russian Embassy by name of Boris Nemtsov, and attempted Kolář could be prepared due that he advocated the demolition of the monument to Konev. Both officials after the publication was taken under protection.
the Russian side has denied this information. The Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic claimed that Russian diplomats were arriving at the Prague airport since March. Zakharova called reports of the arrival in Prague of the Russian poison “morbid imagination”.
