The Moscow Times reported that Mayor of Prague Zdenek Hrib is under heightened police protection after local media allegations of a Russian plot to poison him.
According to a Czech news report, a Russian national arrived in the country three weeks ago armed with a lethal poison previously used by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service to assassinate individuals viewed as political enemies and state defectors.
A Soviet-era statue was recently taken down in Prague and a city square named for a Russian opposition leader assassinated at the hands of the regime.