Source: Politico
“Some 100,000 demonstrators in cities across Slovakia on Friday demanded that their government stop flirting with Russia and respect the country’s obligations toward its Western partners in NATO and the European Union. ‘We’re here to remind you, politely but clearly, that we already chose years ago where we want to belong,’ said actor Tomas Mastalir in front of 60,000 people in the capital Bratislava, in a reference to Slovakia’s membership in the EU and the North Atlantic defense alliance since 2004. … The protest rallies, which happened simultaneously in more than 30 Slovak towns, were organized by the ‘Slovakia is Europe’ NGO in response to a sharp foreign policy turn toward Moscow by Fico’s government since it took office in October 2023.” (01/25/24)
https://www.politico.eu/article/slovakia-protests-robert-fico-vladimir-putin-europe-russia