The intensification of the pro-Kremlin turn of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico drew the largest crowd of demonstrators to the streets of the Slovak capital Bratislava since protests against Fico's Smer party-led cabinet began in late 2023 as fears arose that Fico’s changes in the country’s police,

After Prime Minister Robert Fico alleged there were plans to escalate anti-government protests into an attempted coup, Slovaks took the streets in over 20 cities to peacefully protest the government's pro-Russia policy.

Slovak President Peter Pellegrini said there’s no need to declare a state of emergency even after the premier suggested some groups had attempted to organize a “coup.”

SLOVAKIA TRAVEL, the National Organisation for the Promotion of Tourism, is systematically and purposefully preparing a worthy presentation of Slovakia at the World Expo in Osaka, Japan (13 April – 13 October 2025).

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico looks set to survive an upcoming no-confidence vote after rebel lawmakers in one ruling coalition party said they would not support the motion.

Officials in Slovakia say an 18-year-old student fatally stabbed two people at a high school. The Slovak rescue service says one other person is in critical condition.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has rejected a Ukrainian invitation to visit Kyiv this week to discuss gas transit deals, Russia's TASS news agency said on Tuesday, citing a Slovak lawmaker, amid a spat over the end of Russian gas deliveries.

But the proposed alternative "fundamentally cannot perform the same functions on the battlefield as a classic main battle tank."

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to hold talks on resuming natural gas transit after a deal between Kyiv and Moscow expired at the start of this year.

Russia's gas flows to Europe ended at the start of the year following the expiration of a transit agreement between Kyiv and Moscow. Ukraine refused to extend the deal, seeking to stop energy revenue going to Moscow to fund its nearly three-year invasion.

Tens of thousands of people in Slovakia have gathered at squares and street across the country to voice their opposition to the pro-Russia policies of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico.