Czechs ban Rosatom from nuclear tender, rule out Sputnik vaccine

Prague (AFP) April 19, 2021

The Czech government said Monday it would eliminate Russia's Rosatom from a multi-billion-euro tender to build a new nuclear plant unit and would no longer consider buying Sputnik V vaccines. The announcements follow tit-for-tat expulsions of diplomats after Prague accused Russia's secret services of being behind a fatal explosion on Czech territory in 2014. Russian atomic energy agency