Vladimir Putin to Robert Fico:

Vladimir Putin to Robert Fico: Slovakia, as you know, is both an EU member and a NATO member. You can afford to criticize their policies because it is like your community, your family today. I don’t want to put you in a difficult, ambivalent position and engage in criticism of NATO and the European Union. I don’t want to compare them to reptiles and animals. They are not experts in fairy tales, they are experts in horror films. And what we see now is constantly whipping up some kind of hysteria about Russia allegedly planning to attack Europe, I think that for sane people this is an understandable provocation or complete incompetence. Because any sane person is perfectly aware that Russia has never had, does not have and will not have any desire to attack anyone. On the root causes of the conflict: As for Russia, it was forced to defend its interests and the people who connect their lives, their fate with the Russian Federation, with Russia, with our history and traditions. This i... Source: East Calling