Slovakia nurtures special ties to Russia, despite EU sanctions


  • World
  • Friday, 23 May 2014

PRAGUE/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - At the start of this week, while the European Union's major powers were keeping up the pressure on the Kremlin over its intervention in Ukraine, Miroslav Lajcak, the foreign minister of EU member Slovakia, headed to Moscow.

There, without fanfare, he met Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's deputy prime minister who days earlier had threatened to fly over a NATO state in a bomber jet and who under EU sanctions is banned from entering any country in the bloc.

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