A pair of goals by Yegor Sokolov and Ivan Morozov helped Russia's U20 ice hockey team defeat Sweden 5-4 after overtime in the semifinals of the 2020 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Junior Championships in the Czech Republic on Saturday

The Czech police have published a photo of the suspected shooter who killed six people in a hospital in the northeastern city of Ostrava earlier on Tuesday

The Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic has told Sputnik that it is currently checking whether there are any Russians among those killed and injured in the hospital shooting in the northeastern Czech city of Ostrava

The death toll from the hospital shooting in the north-eastern Czech city of Ostrava has climbed to six, Health Minister Adam Vojtech said on Tuesday

Four people were killed as an unidentified man opened fire on Tuesday in a hospital in the north-eastern Czech city of Ostrava, Czech Interior Minister Jan Hamacek said

Germany opposes attempts at historic revisionism and the destruction of the monuments commemorating the role of Soviet soldiers in the World War II, Dr. Stefan Kordasch, the deputy head of political affairs with the German Embassy to Russia, told Sputnik in an interview

Representatives of a little-known Czech nationalist group, National and Social Front, said on Friday that they took responsibility for the desecration of the monuments to Red Army soldiers who died during the liberation of the country

The Prague-based Cesky Rozhlas broadcaster reported on Wednesday, citing Czech intelligence sources, that Russian citizens Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov accused by UK authorities of poisoning the former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the town of Salisbury, secretly visited the Czech Republic in October 2014, where Skripal himself was supposed to arrive at the same time to meet with Czech intelligence officers.