The sections of the Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic were allocated to the USSR in the early 1970s on the basis of existing Soviet-Czechoslovak agreements. So on the requirement of the Czech authorities to return the land under the diploma in Prague, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia responded, RIA Novosti reports.
The department also reminded of “considerable” real estate of the Czech Republic in the center of Moscow.
Earlier on April 19, the headman of the Prague-7 district, Jan Chihinski demanded from Russia to return the territory at which the Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic is currently located. In his opinion, “After 53, the occupation of part of the Stromovka by the Russian Federation should finally end out.”