OREANDA-NEWS. President of the Czech Republic, Milos Zeman, said that he may cancel his visit to Moscow on the 75th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. The reason is a negative assessment by the Russian Foreign Ministry of the law adopted by the Czech authorities on recognition August 21 the Memorial Day for the victims of the invasion and subsequent occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact troops in 1968.

“Some time ago, I accepted the invitation of President Putin to take part in the celebration… and now I’m thinking about whether to go there,” the politician said in an interview with the Prague online edition Parlamentnilisty.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that it was disappointed with the Czech law, which demonstrates “the desire of Prague… to return to the events of half a century ago” in the modern context. The diplomats noted that such a situation does not contribute to the improvement of Russian-Czech relations and contradicts bilateral agreements, according to which Russia and the Czech Republic declared their desire to “finally draw a line under the totalitarian past.”