With the Czech Republic having the dubious honor of hosting the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of the West versus Vladimir Putin’s Russia in the new Cold War, all eyes have recently been turned to Prague. High diplomatic drama has been enacted since Czech intelligence uncovered hard evidence that the identities of the perpetrators behind the detonation of military supplies in 2014 were the same two operatives from Russia’s GRU intelligence services who attempted to eliminate former FSB agent-turned-informer-for-British intelligence, Sergei Skripal, in England in 2018 with a chemical nerve agent has been a catalyst for addressing thorny internal issues in the Czech Republic; principally about the geopolitical alignment of the country’s president, Milos Zeman, who for years has been widely seen as the most pro-Putin of any of the European Union’s leaders.