Renew: 09/03/2022 20:05
Issued by: 03/09/2022, 19:55
Prague – The world’s leading news agencies AP, Reuters, AFP, DPA and Bloomberg also reported on Saturday’s anti-government demonstrations in Wenceslas Square in Prague, where, according to police estimates, 70,000 people gathered, and other foreign media took over their coverage. . They all began their reports with the number of participants, and many of them quoted Prime Minister Petr Fiala and his words that the demonstrations were called by forces that adhered to a pro-Russian orientation, were close to extreme positions and against the interests of the Czech Republic.
“Around 70,000 people protested in Prague’s historic center on Saturday against the Czech government, which they accuse of paying more attention to war-torn Ukraine than its own citizens,” the AFP office said at the start of its report. Fiala told reporters that the meeting was organized by “pro-Russian people close to extremist positions” whose interests conflicted with those of the Czech Republic, the French news agency continued, from which the report was drawn, for example, a Spaniard. daily world or Belgian television RTBF.
Fial’s words that the organizers of the demonstration were “pro-Russian”, close to an “extremist stance” and against the interests of the Czech Republic were quoted, for example, by an Argentine news server infobae.
News of today’s demonstrations also reached the Arab world, for example reported by Syrian institutions THERE. “More than 70,000 Czechs demonstrated in the center of the Czech metropolis of Prague and demanded freedom from dependence on NATO and the EU,” the Syrian agency wrote at the head of the report. “Around 70,000 people protested in Prague on Saturday against the Czech government. They are asking the coalition government to do more to stop the sharp rise in energy prices, and speak out against the European Union and NATO,” wrote Saudi Arabian television Al-Arabiya, which, like India’s The Times of India, carried a Reuters report, for example.
The agency also drew attention to banners criticizing EU and NATO membership Bloomberg, from which the Albanian Daily News server takes over the news, for example. Bloomberg, as well as, for example, the German agency DPA, also cite TK information.
“Tens of thousands of protesters from the extreme right and extreme left demonstrated in the capital on Saturday against the pro-Western Czech government,” the AP news agency wrote. “The protesters are demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s conservative coalition government, which they have criticized for several things, including its pro-Western policies. Fiala said that everyone has the right to demonstrate, but these protesters are expressing pro-Russian views that are not in the interests of the Czech Republic and its citizens,” the AP wrote, quoted by, for example, The Washington Post.
One of Argentina’s most read newspapers Clarin added information about today’s demonstrations in Prague to the online news about the war in Ukraine with the headline Thousands of Czechs protested that they (the government) paid less attention to them than to Ukraine. “Around 70,000 people demonstrated Saturday in the Czech Republic against the government, which they accuse of paying more attention to war-torn Ukraine than its own citizens,” Clarin wrote. He also mentioned that one banner read “The best for Ukraine and two sweaters for us”.
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