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Czech police said on Tuesday they had detained a man suspected of throwing firebombs at a Russian cultural and scientific center in Prague last week.The suspect turned himself in after the incident on Thursday, in which nobody was injured but which resulted in Moscow summoning the Czech ambassador in Moscow to complain.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.“Yesterday we detained a man who had turned himself in to admit he had attacked the building,” police said on X.“He is a foreigner who said he had been planning the attack... since summer 2025,” they added.The Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Prague, known as the Russian House, opened in 1971 when the former Czechoslovakia was a satellite state of the Soviet Union.Russia launched a fully-fledged invasion of Ukraine, which borders the Czech Republic, in February 2022.Russian House head Igor Girenko said the attack was a “terrorist” act.In a video released by the Russian foreign
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