The editorial board of the Washington Post published a scathing editorial on Friday slamming leaders in the former eastern bloc, specifically Czech President Miloš Zeman and Hungary’s PM Viktor Orban. The daily, reflecting on notable pro-Russian statements in the face of EU sanctions and the crisis in Ukraine, described Zeman as a “virtual mouthpiece for Russian President Vladimir Putin” and maintained as worrying that the current Czech government had distanced itself from a human rights agenda laid out in the 1990’s by the former president Václav Havel.
