However whereas Fico’s journey was primarily enterprise, the group of Slovak MPs went round admiring Moscow’s structure, attending theater performs and shopping Russian supermarkets to show that tales about lacking primary meals provides are (completely and fully!) false.
Their optimistic outlook echoed one other controversial current Russia go to: Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson’s Moscow jolly again in February 2024.
Tucker Carlson loved his sit-down with Putin a lot that he went to Moscow once more in December, this time to interview International Minister Sergey Lavrov.
It’s laborious to inform whether or not Carlson or Danko loved Moscow extra, however are you able to guess who mentioned which gushing quote about Russia? (Solutions on the finish; don’t scroll down!)
Quiz
1. “If somebody needs to name [the] Russian nation evil, how may an evil nation have so many books? I want you may see the bookstores, the large department shops. How may an evil nation have such lovely artwork, such expert athletes?”
2. “We’re in … a scorching warfare with Russia, an undeclared warfare you didn’t vote for, however that’s ongoing. And since the U.S. navy is killing Russians in Russia proper now, we’re nearer to nuclear warfare than in any time in historical past.”
