Prague, May 16 (CTK) – Czech President Milos Zeman has told untrue information about the Novichok nerve agent being produced in the Czech Republic, and threatened the Czech Republic’s security interests by releasing classified data, the Senate foreign, defence and security committee announced today. All intelligence services’ reports conclude that Novichok, which was used ...
Prague, May 14 (CTK) – The dispute over the promotion of BIS counter-intelligence chief Michal Koudelka to general is part of the fight for the long-term focus of the Czech foreign policy, Ondrej Kundra writes in the weekly Respekt out today, referring to President Milos Zeman’s refusal to promote Koudelka. The Czech government approved ...
Prague, May 14 (CTK) – Defence Minister Karla Slechtova (ANO) today dismissed the director of the Military Research Institute (VVU), Bohuslav Safar, whom Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) criticised over his statements about the Novichok agent, the Defence Minister has said on its webpage. The VVU will be temporarily headed by its deputy director ...
Prague, May 13 (CTK) – Double agent Sergei Skripal, poisoned by the Novichok agent in Britain this March, was secretly in Prague in 2012 and he met representatives of Czech security forces at least once in Britain, the weekly Respekt said on its webpage today. Respekt writes its sources do not think the attack ...
Prague, May 11 (CTK) – Social Democrat (CSSD) deputy chairman Jaroslav Foldyna should not be in the party leadership, Senate chairman Milan Stech (CSSD) told CTK today, warning of Foldyna having a row with the protesters against the Russian nationalist Night Wolves motorcycle club in Prague. At a CSSD board meeting later today, however, ...
Prague, May 5 (CTK) – A state whose president gains information from secret services and immediately releases it in public looks strange, Zbynek Petracek writes in Lidove noviny (LN) in reaction to President Milos Zeman’s statement on TV Barrandov that the Novichok nerve poison was tested in the Czech Republic last year. It was ...
Prague, May 4 (CTK) – The president should not release secret information, according to experts CTK addressed today in reaction to a TV interview in which President Milos Zeman presented Czech intelligence services’ information on Czech production and tests of the Novichok poison. Former chief-of-staff Jiri Sedivy said the most accurate information about the ...
Prague, May 4 (CTK) – Only microgrammes of substances like the Novichok nerve agent are synthesised in the Czech Republic because of chemical protection and the microscopic amounts are disposed of immediately after the testing and nothing is stored, the Defence Ministry said today. On Thursday, Czech President Milos Zeman said Novichok was produced ...
Prague, May 4 (CTK) – The Czech parliament should deal with President Milos Zeman’s interpretation of the information from secret services on the production of the Novichok agent in the Czech Republic, some senators told journalists today. Zeman said on Thursday that he preferred the view of the military intelligence that the Novichok nerve ...
