Russia bears full responsibility for the collapse of the INF treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty), which contributed to peace and security on the European Continent for 30 years, Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček told journalists on Friday in response to the US withdrawal. The United States formally withdrew from the Cold War-era nuclear missile pact ...
Prague, Sept 17 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman acts as Moscow’s nuclear ambassador to Prague and has been doing his utmost for the planned construction of new units of the Dukovany nuclear power plant to be entrusted to Russia’s Rosatom state company, Petr Honzejk writes in Hospodarske noviny (HN) today. In an interview ...
Prague, Sept 12 (CTK) – The reasons why anti-Russian sanctions were introduced by the EU still persist, Czech senior elected officials, or the president, PM, lower house head and foreign and defence ministers, agreed at a meeting today and called for the Minsk agreements to be met by all sides involved. The officials also ...
Prague, Sept 6 (CTK) – The Czech Republic is evaluating the information on the investigation into the poisoning of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter by a nerve gas Britain is releasing, acting foreign minister Jan Hamacek told journalists today. British Prime Minister Theresa May has stated the poisoning was perpetrated by ...
Prague, Aug 24 (CTK) – The Novichok agent which poisoned former Russian agent Sergei Skripal in Britain in March could not be manufactured in the Czech Republic, daily Lidove noviny (LN) writes today, quoting Alexei Venediktov, the editor-in-chief of the Russian Echo of Moscow radio station. The poison killed not only Skripal, but also ...
Prague, July 25 (CTK) – Russia’s pro-Kremlin Night Wolves motorcycle club and the Slovak Defenders group are together running a paramilitary base in Slovakia, which is a clear display of a hybrid threat on the part of Russia, Martin Ehl says in Czech daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) today. The Night Wolves are known for ...
Prague, July 18 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman assesses the recent meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin positively and he hopes that their cooperation will continue, Zeman said in an interview with CTK today. Trump and Putin met in Helsinki on Monday. They touched upon many issues, ...
Prague/Budapest, April 9 (CTK) – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) congratulated his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban on the victory of his Fidesz party in the Sunday general election today, as did Czech President Milos Zeman, who mentioned a further deepening of cooperation in Central Europe. Babis wrote to Orban that he wanted to ...
Prague, April 4 (CTK) – The Czech political representatives should express a united stance on the case of poisoning of former Russian spy in Britain for which the Western allies blame Russia, the Senate, the upper house of Czech parliament, said in a resolution it approved today. The resolution was prepared by the upper ...
