ROB CAMERON

BBC Prague Correspondent
Camera/edit by Lukáš Materna / blackfilm.cz
Spy row revs up Czech-Russian tensions
BBC News
2021-05-08

Czech-Russian relations were already chilly before the invasion of Ukraine; today they are icy, verging on frozen. Revelations that Moscow’s notorious GRU spy agency had blown up a Czech arms dump in 2014 led to a spate of tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions. The annual flashpoint is the anniversary of the Soviet liberation of Czechoslovakia – or rather the eastern two-thirds of it.