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Tschechien, Russland und der Ukrainekrieg. The Czech Republic, Russia, and the War in Ukraine

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ID21367337
AuthorsVladimír Handl (0000-0002-4179-2513, (1957), JUDr., CSc, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Internationale Studien (IMS) an der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften der Karls-Universität, Prag), Kateřina Řežábková ((1994), Mgr., Absolventin des Instituts für Internationale Studien (IMS) an der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften der Karlsuniversität, Prag), Zuzana Zavadilová ((1998), Mgr., Analytikerin bei der Assoziation für Internationale Fragen (AMO) in Prag)
Year2024
Volume74
Issue11-12
Pages57-67
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueOsteuropa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-6428 • E-ISSN: 2509-3444
PublisherWissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.35998/oe-2024-086
OpenAlexW4406722947
LanguageEN

The Czech Republic long maintained good relations with Russia. The turning point came in April 2021, when Czech intelligence proved that Russia’s military intelligence service, GRU, had carried out attacks on a Czech ammunition depot. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the estrangement between Prague and Moscow deepened. With broad parliamentary backing, the Czech Republic has been supporting Ukraine financially, politically, and militarily since 24 February 2022. However, the strongest opposition party ANO under former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is mobilizing against this support. The communists and right-wing radicals under Tomio Okamura are also trying to make political capital out of people’s war-weariness with the slogan “This is not our war.”

Feminism · Geography · Philology · Sociology · Anthropology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · Gender Studies · German legal, social, and political studies

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