Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:32:30 +0200https://english.radio.cz/central-or-eastern-schwarzenberg-lavrov-tussle-over-map-europe-8587521© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalPrague, as any Czech schoolchild will tell you, is west of Vienna, and Czechs get notably prickly when their country is placed in “Eastern” rather than “Central” Europe. So there were loud murmurings of disapproval in the Czech media this morning after Russia’s foreign minister Sergej Lavrov spoke of the Czech Republic and Poland as being in “Eastern Europe”.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/schwarzenberg_moskva.jpg?timestamp=1591342517 https://english.radio.cz/central-or-eastern-schwarzenberg-lavrov-tussle-over-map-europe-8587521 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9