MF Dnes: alleged Russian spies were looking at energy sector, not radar

The daily Mladá Fronta Dnes has reported that the two Russian diplomats recently deported from the Czech Republic for espionage were not primarily interested in the proposed American radar base, but in the local energy industry. Citing unnamed economists, security experts and diplomats, the paper wrote that the alleged “sleeper cells” were focusing on increasing Russian influence over the natural gas and atomic energy industries in the Czech Republic. Official sources have not commented on the matter.