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The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday placed the operators of the Voice of Europe website on its national sanctions list against Russia. The website is part of a Russian influence operation aimed at calling into question the territorial integrity, sovereignty and freedom of Ukraine, according to the Czech ministry. Behind it is the oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, the ministry said, a former Ukrainian deputy who was charged with high treason in Ukraine but was handed over to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange in 2022. Medvedchuk, who is considered a close friend of Russian President…