Storm in Slovenia: The President's Car Accident and the Possible Connection to Russian Intelligence

Slovenian President Nataša Pirc Musar is at the center of a storm after a car accident revealed her closeness to a Russian citizen suspected of ties to intelligence in Moscow. The parliamentary security committee demands an urgent discussion and requests a report from the SOVA intelligence agency regarding possible Russian interference. The president's office denies any connection to Russian intelligence.

Slovenian President Nataša Pirc Musar is at the center of a public and security storm after a car accident revealed her closeness to a Russian citizen, Victoria Krivulotska, who is suspected of ties to intelligence agencies in Moscow. The parliamentary committee for security affairs, composed of representatives from all parties, requested an urgent discussion and will ask the Slovenian intelligence agency SOVA for a report regarding the possibility of Russian interference in Slovenia's sovereignty and national security. The president's office strongly denied any connection to Russian intelligence networks. The affair began after Pirc Musar was hospitalized due to a broken collarbone caused by a car accident, in which the official vehicle also carried two passengers defined as "friends of the president." Local media revealed that one of the passengers was Krivulotska, a Russian-born woman who received Slovenian citizenship in 2016, and that the two had traveled together to Russia several times in the past. An investigation by the newspaper Dnevnik and the APA agency linked Krivulotska to Roman Yaglich, a former senior Slovenian intelligence official who fled to Russia. The Slovenian Democratic Party called for Pirc Musar to be denied access to intelligence reports. Pirc Musar, a liberal and pro-European, has previously condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine.