{"id":444761,"date":"2025-09-23T03:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/444761\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:13:09","slug":"pro-russian-disinformation-swamps-czechia-as-election-nears-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/444761\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Russian disinformation swamps Czechia as election nears \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

His party manifesto pledges to axe the ammunition plan, and in interviews Babi\u0161 has called <\/a>for \u201ccompromise\u201d to end the fighting in Ukraine and avoid a larger war with Russia.\u00a0His party, ANO, has also called<\/a> to scrap a legal amendment that helps prosecute those who pass on sensitive information to foreign powers, including Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cBabi\u0161 is against this ammunition initiative, against spending on defence, he talks about peace without any conditions,\u201d Fiala told<\/a> the FT. \u201cHe helps Vladimir Putin, it\u2019s very clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Babi\u0161, meanwhile, has accused Fiala of trying to escalate the conflict in Ukraine, saying<\/a> the prime minister \u201cdreams of war with Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump rightly warned President Zelenskyy and, by extension, Europe that he is playing with World War III,\u201d Babi\u0161 said<\/a> in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Babi\u0161\u2019 line echoes that of Georgia\u2019s ruling party, Georgian Dream<\/a>, which has stoked fears of war with Russia to justify a sharp turn away from Europe.<\/p>\n

But Tom\u00e1\u0161 Cirhan, a political analyst at Masaryk University in Brno, said Babi\u0161 is trying to win votes by appealing to a part of Czech society that is concerned increased defense spending will come at the expense of local services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His party manifesto pledges to axe the ammunition plan, and in interviews Babi\u0161 has called for \u201ccompromise\u201d to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[71115,3032,13071,33,6563,332,7339],"class_list":{"0":"post-444761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-andrej-babis","9":"tag-czech-republic","10":"tag-disinformation","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-media-freedom","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-russia-sanctions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115251432974021357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}