
In the Czech Republic, some real estate properties that belong to Russia have been sealed, reports the ČTK agency with reference to the real estate cadastre.
The HEAD of the country's Foreign Ministry, Jan Lipavsky, said that the arrest would affect about 70 objects located in Prague, Karlovy Vary and the Central Bohemian Region (the region surrounding the capital).
The measure was adopted after the inclusion of the Russian Federal State Unitary Enterprise Goszagranobstvo, which manages the country’s state assets abroad, on the national sanctions list. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Russia will respond to such “unfriendly steps”, for this “it is necessary to analyze what the Czechs have here.” Lipavsky previously said that the Czech Republic's actions complied with the law.
According to the real estate cadastre, writes ČTK, in Prague a school building on Krupkova Square, a house on Ovenecka Street and a villa on Pod Kashtany Street (it ends at Boris Nemtsov Square, which was also previously called Pod Kashtany) have been sealed. In Karlovy Vary, the building of the former Russian consulate was sealed.
In May, Prague canceled nine documents from the 1970s and 80s that allowed the then-USSR to use real estate for free for diplomatic purposes. After this, a lawsuit was filed against Russia for more than 53 million Czech crowns (over 200 million rubles) due to illegal enrichment, ČTK points out.
Lipavsky previously said that Russia owns 42 buildings in the Czech Republic with the status of diplomatic mission facilities, but an audit revealed that dozens of them are not used for their stated purposes.
The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that it would prepare a response to the Czech Republic’s decision to cancel free rent for diplomatic mission facilities.
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