By: Sara Kovač / Nova24tv
“Unfortunately, strong politicians, decorated with Putin’s medals, are trying to push Slovenia back into the sphere of Russian influence,” Prime Minister Janez Janša wrote, pointing out that Slovenia has a strong pro-Russian network, which also has exceptional media, financial and political power. At the same time, it seems that certain interest groups related to Russian companies (Gazprom, Yandex and others) are strongly involved in Slovenian politics. According to Janša, this concludes the circle and clearly shows that Slovenian politics have close ties with the Kremlin.
Prime Minister Janez Janša thanked the International Democratic Union (IDU), which wished him good luck in the elections on Sunday morning. “Unfortunately, strong politicians, decorated with Putin’s medals, are trying to push Slovenia back into the sphere of Russian influence,” Janša added, noting that when the members of the camp in question were leading the Slovenian government, their foreign minister visited Moscow as many as thirteen times, while he did not go to Washington or Berlin once. There is a strong pro-Russian network present in Slovenia, which also has exceptional media, financial and political power. Before every election, this network sets up a new political party. This time, it is called the Freedom Movement (Gibanje svoboda) – and it does not belong to any group in the European Union.
Janša also explained that the President of the Freedom Movement, Robert Golob, was once the Vice-President of the party of Zoran Janković, called Positive Slovenia (Pozitivna Slovenija). The latter won the parliamentary elections in 2011. But today, Mr Janković is the Mayor of Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana. He refused to return the medal, which was awarded to him by Putin, but fully supported the Freedom Movement. And the party’s President, Golob, opposed sanctions against Russia after the Russian occupation of Crimea. Of course, it should also be noted that the Vice-President of the Freedom Movement, Ms Marta Kos, recently viciously attacked the government of the Republic of Slovenia and Prime Minister Janša for supporting Ukraine – namely, she was mad that Janša visited only Kyiv, but not Moscow.
It should also be pointed out that the head of the State Prosecutor’s Office, Drago Šketa, signed a cooperation agreement with the head of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office, Igor Krasnov, on the 13th of January 2022, even though Krasnov has been on the EU blacklist since March 2021. The Government of the Republic of Slovenia did not approve of Šketa’s visit. The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office. “Obviously, they are very proud of the prosecution at the time of Stalin’s terror,” Janša pointed out. The brother of the Vice-President of the Freedom Movement, Drago Kos, also went to Moscow in January 2022 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Russian Prosecutor’s Office, apparently representing the OECD. The most influential media outlet in Slovenia is POP TV, which was created by the “Old boys’ network” at the beginning of the transition. Today, it is owned by the Czech company PPE Group, and its editor-in-chief is the wife of Mr Kos, Tjaša Kos Slokar. “We see heavy involvement in Slovenian politics of some interest groups linked with Russian companies (Gazprom, Yandex, etc),” Janša also wrote, adding that this concludes the circle and clearly shows that Slovenian politics have close ties with the Kremlin.
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In Russia, the transition from totalitarianism into democracy (with lustration) failed in 80 percent. The KGB still rules the country. And in Slovenia, only 50 percent of the transition was successful, and now the Slovenian KGB is protected by the European Union.
