cpsu, the tsar of the boyars vecho, the soviet union collapsed, what happened, the president, parliamente supreme national assembly, also a traditional form of government. of course, in life the associations are not always direct, say, the boyars can be someone else in positions, but the very essence of the power structure for the slavs is characteristic of exactly this: a strong leader, capable of accepting strong-willed decisions, a strong and intelligent boyar, capable of giving sensible advice to the leader and resolving some issues independently, and a large collegial body for making strategic decisions. i will say that i think that this system is generally the most effective when all three of its components perform their functions, but in belarus the system of authoritarian state governance worked effectively, and that’s exactly what we have, you didn’t hear it, although i’m sure you did heard the president talk about authoritarianism last week, and almost three decades, one strong leader carried all his functionality on himself, and often also the boyars and the veche, for various

robert vecho's party now needs to enter wants better relations with russia and is critical of the european union and nato. he is pledged not to send a single round of ammunition to ukraine from slovakia, which has been one of europe's biggest doneers to kiev as a share with gdp. willbert dr. independent international affairs analist joins us from brussels. we also have greg simons who's an independent researcher and author who joins fromsala. our first over to you, so a pro russia party who's a nato member has won a general election, what type of impact will that have when it comes to the wider, i guess war, it would be premature to celebrate this victory, because it's a qualified victory, as you remarked, the the voter returns show that party is a minority party. "there is no single minority party in slovakia, this means that mr. fico or fizo has the opportunity to form a coalition government, and he will clearly in the coming days and weeks, be reaching out to the many small parties in slovakia to try to achieve a parliamentary majority. his victory uh informing cabinet is not assured. m

general secretary of the politburo, cpsu congress, tsar of battle, vecho, the soviet union collapsed, supreme national assembly, also a traditional form of government, of course, in life the associations are not always direct, say, boyars can be someone else in their positions , but the very essence of the power structure for the slavs is characterized by just such a strong leader, capable of accepting strong willed decisions. a strong and intelligent boyar, capable of giving sensible advice to the leader and resolving some issues independently, a large collegial body for making strategic decisions, i will say that i think in general this system is the most effective when all three of its components perform their functions, but it worked effectively in belarus a system of authoritarian government, and that’s exactly what you didn’t hear in our country, although i’m sure you already heard the president talk about authoritarianism last week. and almost three for decades, one strong leader carried all his functions on himself, and often also the boyars and the evening, for various reason