The story, against the background of the dismantling of the statue of a famous Soviet marshal in Prague, is worthy of a detective story. The Czech newspaper Respekt was among the first to tell a few snippets on April 28. The story raises more questions than answers, but has put the Czech Republic on the teeth, and Russian-Czech relations have stalled.
On March 14, two days before the start of confinement in the Czech Republic, a Russian diplomat working at the Russian Cultural Center in Prague, identified on Monday as Andrej Viktorovic Koncakov, arrived from Moscow on one of the last flights to land before the Czech airspace closed.
Russian "diplomat" ricin in suitcase, fear of punitive mission against mayor of PragueAccording to Ondrej Kundra, investigative journalist for the weekly Respekt , which tracks the activity of Russian intelligence services in central Europe, this young "diplomat" is suspected by the Czech services of returning to Prague with ... ricin , in his suitcase. Monitoring the man for already months, tells us
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