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Robert Fico assassination attempt as part of information impact operation

Link between the person who made an attempt to kill Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico on May 15, and pro-Russian neo-Nazi group “Slovenski branci, SB” points at the real goal…

May 17, 2024Russia, Slovakia

Drug trafficking Intelligence ops

How the Kremlin uses Italian organized crime groups to sponsor pro-Russian forces in Slovakia

The Slovak politicians-Italian mafia business links were discovered following the killing of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak in 2018. The authorities believe Kuciak was murdered in relation to his work. He…

February 5, 2024cocaine, mafia, Orban, Russia, Slovakia

Intelligence ops

Fico’s government in an effort to end sanctions on Russian intelligence and neo-Nazi liaison in Slovakia

An effort by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to lift European sanctions against businessman and biker Jozef Hambálek is likely to reveal a communication channel between Russian domestic intelligence and…

December 19, 2023FSB, Slovakia

Governance

Outside-influenced Slovak parliamentary elections questions their future results and puts the EU decision-making system at stake

The probability of tensions between the European Union, NATO and Bratislava after the upcoming parliamentary elections in Slovakia is quite high. It could cause reducing EU’s financial aid to Bratislava…

September 27, 2023Slovakia

Democracy

Russia keeps setting up and backing neo-Nazi fighting groups in the West

Russia keeps setting up fighting groups of neo-Nazi ideology under its sway in Western countries, providing training, supply and political lobbying for them. It came to light in 2020 that…

January 27, 2021Nazi, Russia, Slovakia

Slovakia

Robert Fico assassination attempt as part of information impact operation

How the Kremlin uses Italian organized crime groups to sponsor pro-Russian forces in Slovakia

Fico’s government in an effort to end sanctions on Russian intelligence and neo-Nazi liaison in Slovakia

Outside-influenced Slovak parliamentary elections questions their future results and puts the EU decision-making system at stake

Russia keeps setting up and backing neo-Nazi fighting groups in the West

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