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The shadow of Russia darkens the city of Prague again, whose mayor, Zdenk Hrib, has been under police protection for several weeks for an alleged ricin poisoning attempt. "There is a risk to my life," the councilman said today, confirming the information released by various media outlets that Hrib and district councilor Ondrej Kolar had been the target of an assassination plan orchestrated from Moscow.

Hrib, the leader of the Pirate Party, has not revealed the nature of the threat, nor did he accuse Russia of being supposedly behind it, but gave some ideological clues about them, stating that he will maintain his belief "even if that means a risk to my life . "

This Sunday, the Czech weekly magazine Respekt revealed that a person carrying Russian diplomatic documents had arrived in Prague three weeks ago with the aim of murdering the councilors. Citing anonymous Czech intelligence sources, the publication detailed that the alleged murderer was carrying a suitcase containing the lethal poison ricin, an extreme that has not been confirmed by official sources.

From Moscow, Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Vladimir Putin, has described these reports as "journalistic hoax. All this is false . "

Hrib and Kolar are not exactly friends with Russia. The first, leader of the Pirate Party, joined on February 27, in "solidarity with the Russian opposition," to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. The central act was to baptize a square with his name, precisely in front of the Russian embassy in Prague, as has already been done in other countries.

Klar, mayor of District 3 of the same capital, this year promoted the removal of the monument of Soviet Marshal Iván Kónev, considered one of the liberators of the Czech capital in World War II, but also co-responsible for the Soviet invasion during the "Spring from Prague "in 1968.

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