Since his return to power in 2023, Prime Minister Robert Fico has implemented measures to exert control over the media in Slovakia. Since years, Fico expresses contempt for press freedom, frequently ...

Fico, who returned to power in 2023 for a fourth term, has faced mass protests in recent months, with critics accusing him of authoritarian tendencies and pursuing a pro-Russian foreign policy.

BRATISLAVA - The shots fired in last May’s assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico were not the first – or the only – to target a politician whose authoritarian drift has ...

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico (left) welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as he arrived at Bratislava Castle for a Summit on Equal Quality of Products for All in Bratislava ...

This would actually be Fico’s third stint as prime minister. He served from 2006 to 2010, and then again from 2012 to 2018, when he was dethroned.

Mr. Fico, a former leftist turned nationalist, has long had a combative relationship with Slovakia’s cultural, media and intellectual elites, saying they sneer at ordinary people and their ...

Accused by its critics of stoking dangerous tensions and animosity toward the media, the government has responded by asserting that the other side started the fight by blaming Mr. Fico and his ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: A quick Google search reveals many articles, commentaries, social media posts, and scholarly debates on whether or not America is sliding into an ...