According to early-exit polls, Kremlin's presidential candidate Dmitry Medvedev has received almost 70 percent of votes. No major changes in Russia's foreign policy are to be expected after President Vladimir Putin will be most probably replaced with Dmitry Medvedev, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said earlier today. The Czech Foreign Ministry said the results were no surprise. Its press release, passed to CTK by spokeswoman Zuzana Opletalova, said Russia was an important trade, investment, energy and raw materials partner.
Hence the interest in the two countries' relations to develop in a positive, constructive and pragmatic spirit. The Foreign Ministry expressed the hope that Czech-Russian political dialogue on bilaterally advantageous cooperation would continue. It also hopes that the new Czechs critical of work of their MEPs-poll ...
Czech govt nods to extension of access to information space ... Russian leadership will actively collaborate with European and Euro-Atlantic structures of which the Czech Republic is a member, it added. Foreign observers have said the election campaign was uneven, while their counterparts from the Commonwealth of Independent States said everything was in order. Some Russian NGOs said the election law had been repeatedly violated. The Russian opposition said the elections were a farce.
(Ceske Noviny)
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