The conflict in Ukraine has revealed that Slovakia is of two minds when it comes to relations with Russia. That, at least, is how the opposing views expressed recently at the Slavin cemetery in Bratislava are being interpreted. The occasion was a commemoration attended by Slovakia’s president and Russia’s foreign minister of the arrival of Russian troops in the Slovak capital at the end of WWII. One camp of onlookers was chanting anti-Russian slogans while the other was chanting in favor of the country. Slovak president Andrej Kiska has openly opposed Russian actions in the Ukraine, something the country’s prime minister has been unwilling to do.
