The Czech Jewish community protested a decision by President Milos Zeman to invite his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to commemorate Holocaust events in Prague next month, saying the visit would be “inappropriate.”
Zeman invited Putin and other representatives of the other Allied countries in the Second World War to a forum on Holocaust history in Prague and Terezin on Jan. 26-27. The Czech leader has refused to condemn Russia for annexing Crimea from Ukraine in March and for its role in fueling a separatist rebellion in the former Soviet republic.
