In defending Russia, the Czech head of state adopts the Kremlin’s approach to the facts.

The President, Lies, and a Video

by Katerina Safarikova

It has been written many times that Angela Merkel was shocked when she realized Vladimir Putin was actually lying to her. Merkel’s personality and political culture taught her that lying is an unacceptable tool in diplomacy. And there the Russian president was, sitting next to the chancellor of Germany for one of the first talks after the armed men started a war in eastern Ukraine, lying straight to her face.

Since then, Merkel has recovered, and evidence of Putin’s lies has multiplied. At last week’s cease-fire talks in Minsk, TV cameras caught presidents Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine and Alyaksandr Lukashenka of Belarus confiding to each other Putin was lying to them.

Milos ZemanThere is another liar on the block, too, but luckily for Merkel she doesn’t have to deal with him. His name is Milos Zeman and he’s the president of the Czech Republic.

Zeman has been expressing views sympathetic to Russia ever since the fighting broke out in eastern Ukraine. He has dismissed it as a mere “civil war” and downplayed its seriousness, comparing a conflict that has claimed more than 5,000 lives to “something like flu.”

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