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​Slovkia's Prime Minister Robert Fico is in serious condition after being severely wounded in an assassination attempt.
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Slovakia "on the brink" after PM shot

Robert Fico, the outspoken, nationalistic prime minister of Slovakia, was severely wounded in an assassination attempt on Wednesday.

Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus and his Slovak counterpart Vladimir Meciar greeted by a crowd in 1993.
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The Velvet Divorce at 30: How Czechoslovakia did what others couldn’t

Thirty years ago, as Yugoslavia was slouching towards Europe’s ugliest bloodletting since World War II, another Slavic hodgepodge state did something nearly unprecedented in modern history: it dissolved itself ... peacefully. How did Czechoslovakia’s uniquely bloodless breakup happen, and why?