Miloš Zeman

The text entitled "I apologize to the Serbian people" was published on Facebook by the press secretary of the President Zeman, Ji Ovek.

He said that they started talking about what was a "strict order of the great powers".
He once again thanked Czech President Milos Zeman for apologizing to Serbia for the bombing.
As he said, the Czechs have shown that they are sincere friends to the Serbs.

At the beginning, the Czech President Milo Zeman addressed the media, saying that Serbia was a traditional friend of the Czech Republic, which had been betrayed throughout history.

President Vui said that he was looking forward to the visit and meeting with the Czech President Zeman, whom he appreciates as a true friend, especially his firm position on the issue of Kosovo and Metohija, which he often states in public.

Czechs lit nearly 30,000 candles at Prague Castle, the seat of the presidency, on Monday evening to pay their respects to the pandemic's victims, AP reported. The hard-hit European Union nation of 10.7 million people has registered at least 29,711 virus-related deaths.

Predictably, Prime Minister Andrej Babis was most unhappy with the ruling. He complained that the court is interfering with the political process because campaigning has effectively already started for the elections on October 8-9.

The deference shown to the Chinese officials by the party leader of the Czech Communists during a video conference last September is shocking.

That said, there's plenty of time for spin, scandal and scheming to change the course. "It will be interesting to see how Ano's marketers will camouflage Babis's failures in leadership," Otto Eibl, an assistant professor in political science at Masaryk University, told BIRN.

This is an unprecedented move by Zeman. First of all, operational security demands a very high level of 'need to know' and compartmentalisation within counter-intelligence work. The identities of surveillance targets, the sources and methods used to monitor and expose them, and even their apparent missions are treated as extremely confidential.

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Analysts say such displays hint at a geopolitical realignment taking place in parts of Central and Southeast Europe as the pandemic prompts some governments to pivot away from Brussels and towards more authoritarian allies to the east.