Russian branch office in Prague. Thanks to Vrbětice, she has shrunk a lot, but she is still building her position – HlídacíPes.org
ANALYSIS. Last year, the number of employees of the Russian embassy in Prague was approaching 150. Prague has long paid for a Russian base for Central Europe, thanks to the permeability of the Schengen borders, but also further west. The diplomatic fleet, which could carry virtually anyone, anything and anywhere within the EU, was also rampant.
Today, the situation is at least a little more favorable. The finding that the Russian secret service GRU was behind the explosions of ammunition depots in Vrbětice forced the government – to be backed by the votes of the SPD and the Communists – to take two crucial steps: to cut the Russian embassy in Prague (expelling a large part of diplomatic passport holders and their families). members) and delete Rosatom from the domestic business, specifically from the ambition to build new nuclear reactors in our country.
If at least something positive can be found in the Vrbet tragedy (two people died in the explosion), this is exactly it. There are still a lot of useful idiots left, which will be discussed below, but without hundreds of Russian agents, the situation in the Czech Republic is definitely better.
All the more so in the current political situation and at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin is taking over the Czechia and claiming to dictate where we should belong geopolitically. It should also be forgotten that Putin some time ago officially declared only two foreign states to be hostile: the United States and the Czech Republic.
So there are currently only seven diplomats and 25 members of administrative and technical staff at the Russian embassy. Experts, who deal with the long-term monitoring of the activities of pro-Russian trolls on the Czech Internet, stated that the radical cut in the “diplomatic” corps resulted in a rapid decline in their activity. It is therefore found that one of the nests from which pro-Russian propaganda flows, especially into social networks, was directly behind the fence of the Russian embassy in Prague.
Kremlin loudspeakers
However, Russia’s interests and efforts to actively influence public opinion in the Czech Republic (and more broadly in the European Union) have not abated. Populists, anti-system politicians targeting dissidents who defend “traditional values”, whatever I mean, are looking for someone else in Putin’s Russia to help.
And so Lubomír Volný writes about “Russophobic racism and xenophobia” and “NATO aggression in Ukraine”. Tomio Okamura, a master of opportunism, said that “the SPD sees current events in Ukraine as a result of intelligence pressure under the auspices of the United States, Britain and some NATO nations trying to unleash a war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.”
Vaclav Klaus spoke about Russia’s legitimate fears, Milos Zeman first tediously taught the CIA’s embarrassment and that Russia would not attack anyone – now he has learned from Lány that “Russian troops enter the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republic increases the risk of military conflict and, conversely, to reduce the chances of a diplomatic solution. “
With regard to political events in the Czech Republic, there is one more reason to congratulate on how last year’s parliamentary elections turned out. How would a government based on collaborating SPDs and communists, who have mostly passed on know-how on how to turn democrats and democracy around their necks, probably behave in foreign policy towards Russia?
The Wanted Dog initiative kicks openly behind Putin and reluctantly confirms what has been talked about for a long time – that a significant part of anticovidists and anti-vaxers, as well as misinformation associated with the covid, have much in common with the Kremlin’s interests. Spokesman Chcípl pes, former ODS deputy Jiří Janeček, published a post on the movement’s Facebook page, in which he described the government of Petr Fiala as a “useful idiot” of the USA for helping Ukraine.
Front in front of the Russian embassy
The domestic Orthodox Church stands out of most attention. It is no coincidence that Vladimir Putin explicitly mentioned Orthodoxy in his speech. As he described in earlier texts of HlídacíPes.org, the influence of the Moscow Patriarchate prevailed in the Czech Republic. He actively introduces Russian and pro-Russian Ukrainian clergy here (it would be a big surprise if there were no workers in the Russian secret service FSB) and suppressed the Czech ones. At the same time, it handles hundreds of millions from the Czech settlement with churches. Former StB agent Michal Dandár has been at the head since 2015 (according to some Orthodox people, his election was invalid), his secretary is former StB officer Igor Střelec. The Kremlin also uses other domestic Orthodox leaders as its soft power and mouthpiece.
There are also proponents of the Slavic regime in the Czech Republic, strongly pro-Serbian and pro-Russian politicians, academics and businessmen, or fans of groups such as the Night Wolves and pseudo-religious organizations referring to Orthodoxy.
However, there are, for example, about thirteen thousand companies with Russian owners, a significant part of which have no activities, no employees (according to CRIF, 71% of them have no turnover), but their owners hold a so-called business visa entitling them to stay in the Czech Republic. .
It would, of course, be foolish to succumb to Russophobia, especially in relation to Russians living in the Czech Republic for a long time. Many of them do not want to come here precisely because they have nothing to do with Putin and today’s Russia. Unfortunately, as it turns out, Putin knows no boundaries. And the manifestations of hostilities are not limited to tanks, cannons and infantry, but also to less conspicuous cyber warfare, the spread of misinformation and the support of anything that helps to disrupt Western society. Unfortunately, some Russians in the Czech Republic as well as many Czechs are involved.
In addition to the outflows on social networks, the litmus test of who is who will be a look at how long the front in front of the Russian embassy will be on May 9 and who of the Czech politicians and so-called personalities will attend a traditional drink on the occasion of the end of the Great Patriotic War. All the more so when Putin bases his results on his idea that he can speak to the sovereignty of the Czech Republic.
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