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PRAGUE – The Czech interior ministry has set up a unit to counter what it sees as propaganda from Russia and elsewhere that has been affecting public opinion in the European Union and NATO member nation, Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said on October 20.

The counterintelligence service said in September that Russia was conducting “an information war” in the Czech Republic, building a network of puppet groups and propaganda agents that could be used to destabilise the country.

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