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 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, April 26 (CTK) – The Czech counter-intelligence service BIS has worked out a report that President Milos Zeman ordered on whether the Novichok nerve agent was developed or stored in the country, BIS spokesman Ladislav Sticha told CTK today. “The BIS fulfilled the task and the report will be given to the president ...
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 ...
Prague, April 4 (CTK) – Russia expelled two military officers and a junior diplomat from the Czech embassy in Moscow in retaliation for the expulsion of three Russian diplomats from Prague, daily Lidove noviny (LN) writes today. Prague expelled the Russian diplomats within a coordinated reaction of Western allies to the poisoning of double ...
Prague, April 4 (CTK) – Russia has never blamed the Czech Republic for any involvement in the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and only said Czechs are able to work on the development of poisonous substances, the Russian ambassador to Prague, Alexander Zmeyevsky, said today. “No accusations against the Czech Republic have ...
Moscow/Prague, March 30 (CTK) – Moscow branded three Czech diplomats in Russia personae non gratae today and set April 5 as the deadline for them to leave Russia, a step the Czech Foreign Ministry subsequently called expectable and said it has taken note of it. By its decision, Moscow reciprocates the expulsion of three ...
Prague, March 27 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman’s decision that the BIS counter-intelligence service should check whether the Novichok nerve agent, which was used to attack a Russian former spy Sergei Skripal in Britain, was developed or stored in Czech territory, is not useless, Defence Minister Karla Slechtova said today. Slechtova said she hoped ...
Prague, March 26 (CTK) – President Milos Zeman today ordered the BIS counter-intelligence to check whether the Novichok nerve agent, which was used to attack a Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal in Britain, was developed or stored in Czech territory, Zeman’s spokesman Jiri Ovcacek said in a written statement. The BIs should check industrial plants ...
