The story of Vlasta Kálalová Di Lotti: #Czech female surgeon, entomologist, polyglot and traveller (She opened a surgical institute in #Iraq; later, her family were all killed by the Nazis) @iraq
#Russia has made “thousands” of attempts to interfere with European rail networks in a campaign to destabilise the #EU and sabotage critical infrastructure, the #Czech Republic’s transport minister has said.
Nr. 2 of @afd European Parliament election list audio-taped receiving Russian intelligence bribe.
Czech counter-intelligence agendy @biscz have audio recording of German Member of Bundestag @PetrBystronAfD receiving money from Russian espionage. Bystroň is also foreign policy spokesperson of the Bundestag fraction of Russian Alternative for Germany.
@igorshusko#Czech counterintelligence busting traitors working for the #Kremlin throughout Western nations is just the tip of the iceberg. Russia is winning the subversion battle against the West.
"We have uncovered a pro-Russian network that was developing an operation to spread Russian influence and undermine security across Europe. Therefore we added two individuals and one legal entity to the sanctions list. Domestic authorities subsequently seized their assets."
We've got a #Czech-focused podcast for you this week. We're discussing what happened when the Wall Street Journal rather patronisingly described Czechia as 'a small ex-Soviet satellite state'. Plus, why the Czech government is so much less scared of China than others in Europe.
“As we see, it already helps Ukraine to fight better, because they know that they will have a supply of fresh ammunition, which changed their perspective on usage of the current stockpiles,” Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on Monday.
“We can do much more than the initially announced number,” the top envoy said in his office, citing a figure of 1.5 million shells as a potential volume.