Thousands of people protest against Slovak PM in Bratislava – photo
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Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:44:57 +0200
Thousands took to the streets in the Slovak capital Bratislava on Friday, 3 December in protest at Prime Minister Robert Ficos foreign policy actions.
Source Aktuality, as reported by European Pravda Details Around 4,000 people braved freezing weather to express their dissatisfaction with Ficos proRussian policy.
Slovakia, beware, the occupation has begun the protest organisers declared in one of their slogans.
One banner read Fico, go to Moscow, leave Slovakia in peace.
The organisers handed out placards to the protesters that were designed by the artist Rudolf Sikora, with Betrayal written on one side and the slogan We are Europe on the other.
Slovaks at the protest.
Photo Aktuality The protesters waved the flags of the European Union and Slovakia.
The EU anthem was also played, with the organisers emphasising that this is our anthem.
Sikora stressed the need for civil society to join forces with the opposition.
Im begging you, opposition politicians, pull yourselves together, he said, adding that it was necessary to unite against evil.
We arent Russias doormat, speakers at the protest told Robert Ficos government, adding that the prime minister wants to hand Slovakia over to Russia.
Were not Russia, the organisers and the crowd chanted.
Background For two weeks after Slovak Prime Minister Robert Ficos visit to Moscow on 22 December, there was no official information about his whereabouts.
It later emerged that he was staying in a luxury hotel in Vietnam.
Ficos latest video, in which he criticised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was filmed in a room at the luxury Capella Hanoi hotel in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi.
Fico had sharply criticised Ukraine for stopping the transit of Russian gas and written a letter to EU leaders expressing dissatisfaction with Ukraines actions and threatening to cut off electricity supplies.
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