Resnica alleged to have close ties with expelled Russian diplomat

Ljubljana, 4 April - Two members of Resnica, a non-parliamentary party gearing up for the EU elections in June, have contacts with the Russian diplomat that Slovenia has recently declared persona non grata and expelled, Lt-Col Sergei Lemeshev, according to reports by the newspaper Delo and news portal 24ur. The party denies being pro-Russian.

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Resnica leader Zoran Stevanović at one of the protests against anti-Covid measures in November 2021.
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Resnica's EU elections candidate Bojan Potočnik, a retired army officer who served as adviser to President Danilo Turk (2007-2012), as acting police commissioner in 2005 and as secretary general of the Pensioners Party (DeSUS), among others.
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