Miloš Zeman, who proposes a referendum on leaving the EU and NATO, gains a big lead
By Drew Hinshaw and Philip Heijmans
Updated Jan. 13, 2018 10:47 a.m. ET
PRAGUE—Czechs voted in the first round of presidential elections Friday and Saturday and a world power was on the ballot: Russia.
President Miloš Zeman is seeking a second term and has cast himself as Vladimir Putin’s partner in Europe. Prague’s relationship with Moscow is “10 times” more important than with neighbors like France, he told the Russian president in November, chitchatting in Russian in front of journalists who he berated for their inability to speak the language.
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