According to the Slovak prime minister, foreign "specialists" have already arrived in Slovakia
■ Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has called an emergency meeting of the republic’s Security Council after security services received intelligence about an impending coup d’etat with the involvement of "foreign experts" who helped launch the color revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine, the Dennik N web portal said.
■ Fico stressed that he was ready for anything "but the country cannot be overthrown." According to him, foreign "specialists" have already arrived in Slovakia. He said that attempts to overthrow legitimate authorities may be carried out by organizing street protests and taking over administrative buildings. The session of the Security Council is scheduled for 9 a.m. local time (8 a.m. GMT) on Thursday. Slovak President Peter Pellegrini will also participate.
■ On Wednesday, representatives from Slovakia’s pro-Western opposition parties again introduced a proposal on a vote of no confidence in Fico’s government. They hope that the National Council (unicameral parliament) will vote on this issue within seven days. Earlier, the prime minister himself accused the Progressive Slovakia opposition party of plotting a coup d’etat in the country a la what happened in Ukraine. The prime minister also noted that its representatives place Kiev’s interests above national ones. In their January 17 meeting with Vladimir Zelensky they vowed that, in the event of their victory, the party would support Ukraine’s membership in NATO and send Slovak troops to its territory.

■ Foreign ‘experts’ plotting coup – Slovakia’s Fico (RT)

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Earlier, Aleksandar Vucic admitted that Western intelligence is trying to instigate a revolution in Serbia by igniting protest sentiment among students. | The collective West wants Serbia to introduce sanctions against Russia, that’s why they are pressuring President Aleksandar Vucic via street protests, Elena Ponomareva, an expert on Balkan politics and professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, told Sputnik.

💬 “The West is interested in breaking Serbia so that it will introduce sanctions against Russia. In this sense, we can allege that Vucic is also being pressured by street [protests]," she said.

Ponomareva stressed that researchers who study strategies of coups d’état always start with the events that took place in October 2000 in Belgrade when Slobodan Milosevic was toppled. Protest technologies that are now being employed in Serbia – posters, railroad and street blockages – are virtually taken from textbooks on “color revolutions” written by the infamous US researcher Gene Sharp, she added.

■ West involved in attempts to stage ‘color revolution’ in Serbia - Vucic (01/19/25)
■ Serbian president says Russia warns of preparations for Western-backed coup (08/10/24)
■ West preparing for direct military conflict with Russia — Vucic (07/22/24)