Russia ending treaty with Czechia over consulate in Yekaterinburg

Russia is terminating an intergovernmental treaty with Czechia on the establishment of a Czech consulate general in the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia’s state agency TASS reported on Friday, citing an official Russian government website.

A statement on the site said Russia’s prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, had ordered the country’s foreign ministry to inform the Czech side about the decision.

Relations between Prague and Moscow are frosty. The number of Russian diplomats in Czechia was reduced after the country invaded Ukraine a year ago, and Czechia revoked Russia’s permission to operate consulates in Brno and Karlovy Vary.

The Prague government also closed its consulates in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinberg at that time. The Czech House complex in Moscow is temporarily closed.