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The rallies in Bratislava and five other cities are part of a wave of protests that was fuelled by Prime Minister Robert Fico’s trip to Moscow in December for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed Russian troops fighting in Ukraine as “heroes” at last year’s 9 May event.

Citizens across Slovakia have been protesting for months over Prime Minister Robert Fico’s shift towards Russia and away from the EU.

Thousands of Slovaks took to the streets to take part in regular protest pro-Russian policies of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Thousands of anti-government protesters commemorate the seventh anniversary of the killings of an investigative journalist and his fiancée in Slovakia.

The Slovak prime minister’s parliamentary majority came under threat when several lawmakers defected from their posts.

The system outage forced a plane carrying Prime Minister Robert Fico to turn around and head back to Slovakia.

The latest wave of rallies was fuelled by Fico’s recent trip to Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Slovakia’s Moscow-friendly prime minister has faced accusations by the country’s largest opposition party of trying to take the country out of the EU.

Slovakia’s Moscow-friendly prime minister has faced accusations by the country’s largest opposition party of trying to take the country out of the EU.