Tag: Czech Republic

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 21:40 UTC

  Czech Republic replaces Russia on UNHRC

  

  The United Nations General Assembly Tuesday decided by 157 votes to none to appoint the Czech Republic onto the UN Human Rights Council to fill the seat vacated by Russia's suspension on April 7 for alleged war crimes committed during the invasion of Ukraine.

• Saturday, May 7th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic exempt from joining EU embargo on Russian oil imports

  

  The European Union is set to give some member states heavily dependent on Russian oil – such as Hungary and Slovakia – time until the end of 2024 to comply with the proposed embargo on oil imports from Russia, as the bloc is looking to keep a united front against Putin and his invasion of Ukraine, reported Bloomberg on Friday.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2018 - 08:59 UTC

  Prague 1968: “Socialism with a human face” squashed by 200.000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops

  

  More than 200,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia overnight from August 20 to 21, 1968, to halt a blossoming political and cultural liberalization, bringing an abrupt end to the Prague Spring and tightening the Kremlin's grip.

• Monday, July 4th 2016 - 10:05 UTC

  Czech president referendum proposal on EU and NATO, rattles Brussels

  

  The Czech government has no intention of holding any referendum on European Union or NATO membership, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka's office said in a statement, a week after Britain's surprise vote to leave the bloc.