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.
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00:00Thousands of people have protested across Slovakia against the policies of Prime Minister
00:06Robert Fico, who they accuse of being pro-Russia.
00:10The latest wave of rallies was fuelled by Fico's recent trip to Moscow to meet Vladimir
00:15Putin, a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
00:21Fico's recent remarks that Slovakia could leave the European Union and NATO have also
00:26sparked anger among protesters.
00:29Earlier this week, Fico accused protest organisers of being in contact with unspecified foreign
00:35forces who he says are working towards engineering a coup.
00:39Fico linked those accusations to a report by the country's spy service that he presented
00:44in Parliament on Tuesday.
00:46The opposition dismissed that report and accused Fico of misusing the SIS for political purposes.
00:53Protest organisers from the Peace for Ukraine group also slammed Fico's claims, saying he's
00:57trying to frighten the Slovak population.