INlda dismissed the Czech ambassador to Russia Vtzslav Pivoka, he will leave his position at the end of the month. According to Minister Jan Lipavskho (Pirti), the ministry is intensively looking for the new ambassador, but he did not say when he should take up the post. According to some experts, the Czech Republic should not even have an ambassador in Russia. “The European Parliament approved a resolution calling on the Russian states not to recognize Vladimir Putin as president. If we follow this resolution, we should not send an ambassador to him,” said analyst and former consul general in St. Petersburg Vladimr Votpek.
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Pivoka moved to the Czech Republic at the end of 2022, since then it has been speculated whether the Czech Republic should have filled the post at all in protest against the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
“We are working intensively on the appointment and the new ambassador. The current vice-ambassador has been dismissed and I know that a new ambassador will appear,” said Lipavsk on Sunday. For two years now, the media has speculated that Pivoka should be replaced by diplomat Daniel Kotoval, deputy minister at the Ministry of Defense. According to HN information, the government was supposed to approve him for the post of ambassador in the past, but in the end his name was not confirmed. This also caused speculation that the debates between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the President and the government about the fact that the Czech Republic should not have an ambassador in Russia at all have progressed.
The resolution of the European Parliament from April 25 could also play a role in this, which included the results of the presidential elections in Russia. “Due to the fact that they took place in the illegally occupied lands of Ukraine and Russia, they were free and fair, did not meet basic international election standards, and thus lacked democratic legitimacy,” the resolution states. On May 7, Putin won the presidential election and has been leading the country for 24 years.
The Czech Republic represented in Moscow is led by Deputy Ambassador Jan Ondejka. Lipavsk has announced that he will not attend the inauguration of Vladimir Putin. such a ceremony for the Czech Republic,” said Lipavsk. “This is definitely a good decision,” comments Votpek on the department’s position.
The decision of the government could also be accelerated by the discovery of the Financial Times (FT), according to which Moscow has started preparing bombs or firecrackers and actions aimed at infrastructure in European countries. “We have assessed that the risk of controlled sabotage actions has increased significantly,” said Thomas Haldenwang, head of the German Federal Command for State Protection, i.e. civilian counterintelligence.
Growing fears that Russia is increasingly trying to push codes into Europe, more precisely the whole series of accusations against Moscow, according to which they stand for disinformation and hacking campaigns. In recent days, such accusations have been made by Germany and the Czech Republic, and there has been talk of cyber activity by Russian secret services.
According to the FT, an unnamed representative of the European intelligence services said that Russia’s goal is to exert as much pressure as possible on Europe, and Russian President Vladimir Putin will try to do so on the front lines yesterday through sabotage, disinformation and hacker streams.
The vice-president of the European Commission, Vra Jourov, said on Czech television on Sunday that the Voice of Europe media platform will also be included in the preparation of the 14th sanctions package of the European Union and Russia. The Czech government eventually put this company on the national sanctions list, according to the Czech secret services, the platform was trying to influence the European elections.
