MOSCOW, 27 Jun – RIA Novosti. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that he knew nothing about the investigation of Czech media about the Russians supposedly arrived in the country to assassinate officials – according to him, it’s like another “duck”.
Earlier in the Czech mass media appeared information that in the country allegedly came from the Russian special services, after which a number of senior officials were placed under enhanced protection. As reported in the Luggage the newcomer supposedly could be poison. Among those officials, who recently was taken under protection, is the chief (head) of the district Prague 6 ondřej kolář, initiated April 3, dismantled the monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev.
Peskov also declined to comment on the situation with the demolition of the monument to Marshal Konev. “It has been a lot of these statements, there is no need to once again evaluate this story. All evaluations have already been answered quite comprehensively,” said he.
Authorities of the district Prague 6, implementing its decision of September 12, 2019, dismantled 3 April, the monument to Konev. According to the initiator of the demolition, the head of the district of ondřej Kolář, the monument is transferred to the Museum of the history of the twentieth century.
Commenting on these actions, the Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called them “outrageous and cynical”. The Kremlin said that Moscow would prefer to see a monument to Konev restored to Czech or Russian land.
In the main investigation Department of the RF IC opened a criminal case about the desecration of symbols of Russia’s military glory, committed publicly. As reported by the official representative of IC Svetlana Petrenko, Russian investigators intend to prosecute participants of the demolition of the monument. Assistant to the President of Russia, Chairman of Russian military-historical society Vladimir Medina on April 15, was transferred to SK list of persons responsible for the demolition of the monument.
the Monument is Konev was installed in Prague at the initiative of the city authorities in the late 1970’s-early 1980-ies. It was built on means of inhabitants of Prague in gratitude for the fact that the commander has preserved buildings of the Czech capital, and ordered not to use heavy artillery during the assault on the city during its liberation from the Nazis in may 1945.
