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Prague – The world’s leading news agencies AP, Reuters, AFP, DPA and Bloomberg also reported on Saturday’s anti-government demonstration in Prague’s Wenceslas Square, where, according to police estimates, 70,000 people gathered, and other foreign media took over their coverage. All of them begin their reports with the number of participants, and many of them quote Prime Minister Petr Fiala and his words that the demonstration was called by forces claiming to be pro-Russian in orientation, close to extreme positions and against interests. Czech Republic.

“About 70,000 people protested in the historic center of Prague on Saturday against the Czech government, which they accuse of paying more attention to war-torn Ukraine than to its own people,” the AFP news agency wrote at the start of its report. Fiala told journalists that the meeting was organized by “pro-Russian people close to extremist positions” whose interests conflict with those of the Czech Republic, continued the French press office, from which the report was taken, for example, a daily Spanish world or Belgian television RTBF.

Fial’s words that the organizers of the demonstration were “pro-Russia”, close to “extremist attitudes” and against the interests of the Czech Republic were quoted, for example, by the Argentine news server Infobae.

News about today’s demonstrations also reached the Arab world, for example, those reported by Syrian agencies THERE. “More than 70,000 Czech citizens demonstrated in the center of the Czech metropolis of Prague and demanded freedom from dependence on NATO and the European Union,” the Syrian agency wrote at the head of the report. “About 70,000 people protested in Prague on Saturday against the Czech government. They called on the government coalition to do more to stop the sharp rise in energy prices, and spoke out against the European Union and NATO,” wrote Saudi Arabian Al-Arabiya television, which, like for example the Indian daily The Times of India carried a Reuters report.

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 ČTK information.

“Tens of thousands of protesters from the extreme right and the extreme left demonstrated in the capital on Saturday against the pro-Western Czech government,” wrote the AP news agency. “The protesters are demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s current conservative coalition government, which they have criticized for a number of things, including its pro-Western policies. Fiala says that everyone has the right to demonstrate, but these protesters express pro-Russian views which is inconsistent with the interests of the Czech Republic and its citizens,” wrote the AP, quoted by The Washington Post, for example.

One of the most widely read Argentine newspapers clarin added information about today’s demonstrations in Prague to online news about the war in Ukraine with the headline Thousands of Czechs protested that they (the government) pay less attention to them than to Ukraine. “About 70,000 people demonstrated on Saturday in the Czech Republic against the government, which they accuse of paying more attention to war-torn Ukraine than to its own citizens,” Clarín wrote. He also mentioned that one banner read “The best for Ukraine and two sweaters for us”.

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