Open AccessThe Provocation around Vrbětice: Dangerous Turns in Czech Nanopolitics
Author(s) -
Ella Zadorozhnyuk
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
perspektivy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2411-3417
DOI - 10.32726/2411-3417-2021-2-3-129-140
Subject(s) - czech , politics , context (archaeology) , political science , provocation test , political economy , sociology , law , history , archaeology , medicine , philosophy , linguistics , alternative medicine , pathology
The anti-Russian crusade launched by most Czech media and political elites several months before the October 2021 parliamentary elections is examined in various dimensions, including domestic and international political context, economic motives, historical and psychological backgrounds. The scandal around the events that took place years ago in Vrbětice is regarded as a mega-provocation and a kind of aggressive theatricals within the Czech nano-politics – the concept of nanopolitics has been introduced by the author in some of her previous publications on the Czech Republic’s specific political dynamics. The author offers her forecast regarding political landscape after the 2021 parliamentary election and the future of Russian-Czech relations.