Robert Fico, Consummate Survivor

Upon crossing the Danube by car into Bratislava’s central business district, one of the most conspicuous sights is political graffiti adorning a line of construction barrier walls. The messages are unambiguous. Fico wants Russia here. Fico = dark times. Death to the Russian Nazis. Over a week after Prime Minister Robert Fico suffered four gunshot wounds in an assassination attempt, the graffiti remains.