Putin under Prague Christmas tree

In 2016, a party of Putinists may appear in the Czech Republic. Is her success awaiting?

"A quarter of a century of unambiguous and thoughtless orientation to the West drove us into a trap. We became accomplices of crimes in Iraq, Libya and Syria, which were the causes of multimillion -dollar migration to Europe. Meanwhile, Russia was purposefully and extremely effectively fighting for our civilization against jihadists in the Middle East - and at this very time the West prolongs the regime completely meaningless sanctions against Russia. "

In an interview with the Czech -language version of the Russian media project, the satellite does not hide the indignation with the policies of his country in an interview with the policies of his country, suggests that he would like to see a “other West that will overthrow the current mainstream leaders” praises the right and left -wing European populists and calls Donald Trump and calls Donald Trump. The appearance fell on the website of the "satellite", whose task is to present the Prochrevsky view of the world with the Czech public, is associated with the intention of this policy to officially register the Association of Russia in the Czech Republic created by him. Even the transformation of “friends” into a political party is not excluded - in order to, as Irji claims to fall out, more successfully “fight Obama - Merkel - Erdogan.”

Irji fell out

Will the Czech Republic become the first country of the European Union, where not just pro -Russian politicians will fight for places in parliament, but people who put sympathy for Putin in the center of their political program? The prospects of Czech Putinists for Radio Freedom are commented by the observer of the Prague newspaper "Magdarzhsk Novina" Ondryzki .

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Prague Journalist of Ondrzhi Complete the Kremlin's friends in the Czech Republic

- The project "Friends of Russia in the Czech Republic" is talking and writing for several months. How serious is this initiative and what is known about the head of the Irji heading it?

- Well, the founders of this movement of intention, of course, have serious, the question, however, is how feasible they are. The inspirer of this initiative Irji fell out of his political career, it seems, seven political parties and movements, if we count from the beginning of the 90s. He was once a senator, he was even a judge-so when you observe his current activities, questions arise about the state of our judicial system, since such a person was part of it. In his current quality, the master fell mainly represents himself. He opened on Facebook a page of friends of Russia in the Czech Republic. " This page has more than seven thousand "fans". But it turned out that in practice, the ability of this group to organize something tends to zero: for example, during the travel of the column of American armored vehicles through the Czech Republic, about fifteen people came to the protests organized by it. So I think that the current actions of the “friends of Russia” will not be provided with any significant influence on the Czech political scene.

In general, issues of relations with Russia occupy in our politics a place very far from the first

- Nevertheless, the existence of pro -Kremlin sentiments in Czech politics is far from a secret. As an example, one can lead to at least the president of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman , whom, by the way, Irji fell repeatedly praised. How likely, in principle, the unification of the local "lovers of Putin"-on the basis of movement fell or something more serious?

-Although when reading pro-Russian Internet resources like the Czech version of the "satellite" there may be a different impression, in general, issues of relations with Russia occupy in our politics a place very distant from the first. So building a political party only on the fact that, they say, we want to be more closely friends with Russia is to deprive this party of a political prospect. The Prochrevsky forces in any case will be forced to offer some more comprehensive program-as President Zeman does. This is a cocktail of fears in front of immigrants, Euroskepticism, rejection of the so -called "Brussels dictatorship" and so on. But even in this form, I think this is not the program with which some new political party could break into the parliament.

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- And if we talk about parties of existing and relatively popular? Let's say the Czech communists, presented in the parliament of the third largest faction, do not hide their sympathy for the Kremlin course. You can recall the ex-president of the Czech Republic of Vaclav Claus , a frequent guest of various Russian political and economic forums-he also repeatedly made it clear that he was not against returning to politics ...

-The Communist Party stably receives its 10 with something percent of the votes in the elections-this is mainly a protest electorate and older people. At the same time, the Communists are on the political roadside: they all the time in the opposition, never once 25 years after the "velvet revolution" did not participate in the government. And the prospects of this kind are not yet visible. And President Klaus is increasingly perceived in society as a strange figure, devoting his days to the struggle with global warming - in the sense that he denies his existence - and the Brussels dictatorship.

It is much more interesting, for example, to monitor how the attitude towards Russia and its policy among the now-ruling Social Democrats is changing. There are a number of politicians with many years of strong ties with Russia. Say, the current Minister of Industry and Trade, Yana Dlak, is always cordially accepted in Russian political circles (and, apparently, not only because he has a Russian wife). There are several influential deputies who do not hide, for example, that in principle agree with the annexation of Crimea by Russia. But in general, the Social Democratic Party, despite all this, at the decisive moment definitely sided with the European Union, supported the sanctions against Moscow, imposed on the Crimea and Donbass. In general, I don’t see a political force in us now, which could play a “Russian map” like that so that it brings noticeable benefits to her. Well, if you don’t talk, of course, about some Russian financing-but here we are already moving to the level of pure speculation.

I would not wait for miracles in the place of the master

- The interview with Irji lumped the Czech version of the “satellite” entitled New Year's miracles: the Putin Party will appear in the Czech Republic. If you summarize everything said: do you think that in this case it is not worth waiting for miracles - even for the New Year?

- When Irji lifted the notification of my intentions in my blog, I shared on my Facebook page with this message, accompanying him with an ironic comment. And then for the sake of interest he looked at who else “shared” this information fell. And it turned out that out of about 200 Shares, three quarters were accompanied by mocking comments, some were even “beyond the line of foul”. Already on the basis of this reaction, I would not wait for miracles in the place of the master, ”the observer of the Magorzhsk Novina Czech newspaper, the Ondryzhek, said.