The Czech government on May 17 canceled Soviet-era decrees that granted the Russian Embassy free use of land in Prague and other cities, a further step in a more than two-year diplomatic spat with Moscow worsened by the war in Ukraine. The government rescinded orders granting Russia the use of dozens of plots of land in the 1970s and 1980s by the country's then-communist rulers. Russia will now have to pay leases to use the land, the Foreign Ministry said. The Russian Embassy in Prague did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
