Washington Wizards point guard Tomáš Satoranský says he “refused” to meet Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) following the NBA team’s victory at home on Wednesday over the Dallas Mavericks. In a social media posting, he cited the politician’s alleged past as a collaborator with the communist-era secret police, the StB. The Czech ...
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis will remain on the list of the former Communist secret police StB agents in Slovakia, after a complaint he filed against the Slovak Republic with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) was rejected, Czech weekly Respekt reported on December 10. The information was confirmed by Babis to the Czech ...
Prague, June 20 (CTK) – A group of 12 historians of the Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (USTR) backed the view on Radek Schovanek’s lay-off being linked to him witnessing in the PM Andrej Babis’s allegedly wrong StB registration case in a letter sent to USTR head Zdenek Hazdra on Tuesday. ...
Prague, June 15 (CTK) – Prime Minister Andrej Babis has sued Slovakia at the European Human Rights Court over his registration as a Communist StB secret service agent, after his appellate review petition was rejected, the server Seznam Zpravy said today. Babis says he was registered as an StB agent unrightfully and he had ...
Bratislava, June 8 (CTK) – The Slovak Supreme Court has rejected Czech PM Andrej Babis’s petition for an appellate review in his dispute with the Slovak Nation’s Memory Institute (UPN) about his cooperation with the former Communist secret police (StB), the Dennik N server reported in the night. It refers to court spokeswoman Alexandra ...
Bratislava, June 8 (CTK) – The Supreme Court verdict over whether Czech PM Andrej Babis is rightly registered as an agent of the Communist StB, which rejected his appellate review has confirmed the position of the Slovak Nation’s Memory Institute (UPN), its spokesman Jergus Sivos said today. The Slovak lower-level court previously ruled in ...
Prague, June 8 (CTK) – Czech PM Andrej Babis (ANO) will file a lawsuit against Slovakia with the European Human Rights Court over his registration as the former Communist secret police’s (StB) agent after his appellate review petition in the dispute was rejected, ANO spokeswoman Lucie Kubovicova told CTK today. The Slovak Supreme Court ...
Prague, June 7 (CTK) – The Office for Foreign Relations and Information (UZSI), that is the Czech civilian intelligence service, is looking into cyber attacks on PM Andrej Babis (ANO), which have been conducted through a Twitter account named Julius Suman since 2017, the iROZHLAS.cz writes today. The account published several documents and recordings ...
Prague, June 6 (CTK) – The Slovak-born Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) plans to sue Slovakia at the European Human Rights Court over the case of his alleged cooperation with the former Czechoslovak communist secret police StB, he told reporters today. “If media say I lost a court dispute over [my clearance as ...
