PRAGUE, April 29 – RIA Novosti. The situation in relations with Russia, related to the accusations against Moscow in preparation for the attack on Prague politicians, does not require expulsion from the Czech Republic, the Russian Ambassador, said on Tuesday evening Prime Minister Andrew Babish,
on Monday, the Prague weekly Respekt, citing a source in the local security services have alleged that three weeks ago in Prague came a man with a Russian diplomatic passport, which was in my suitcase deadly poison ricin. The man then proceeded to the Embassy of the Russian Federation to his waiting car of the diplomatic mission. As suggested by the weekly, the poison may have been intended for two to Prague’s municipal politicians: the mayor of the district Prague 6 ondřej Kolář and primator of Prague, Zdenek Griba. They are associated with the demolition of the monument to Marshal Konev and the renaming of the square in front of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the area of Boris Nemtsov.
the Embassy of the Russian Federation in this regard, sent a note to the Czech foreign Ministry stating the inadmissibility of the ongoing baseless attacks on Russia and its diplomatic mission in Prague. Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that the message of the Czech mass media like a duck. The official representative of the foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova called information media and fake another irritant in bilateral relations. Later, the Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that no one has evidence that Russia tried someone to poison in the Czech Republic.
“We are a sovereign state and naturally we will not let some big world powers tried in some way to influence our political Affairs. Unacceptable – if this is true – to some other state here pursued actions against our citizens”, – said the Prime Minister.
According to Babish, current disputes with Moscow, is engaged in the foreign Minister Tomas Petricek. The Prime Minister, he said, on this subject, talked with Petricca on Tuesday.
At the same Babish said that the current situation does not require such action, such as expulsion from the Czech Republic, the Russian Ambassador.
the Meeting of Babish with journalists took place after the visit of the President of the Republic Milos Zeman. The Prime Minister said at a meeting with head of the Republic, he spoke on the topic of Czech-Russian relations, but then it was not considered.
In turn, the representative of the Republican security Service and information (SBI, counterintelligence) Ladislav Sticha said on Tuesday evening that his Department believes the current situation is extremely serious.
