Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar has firmly denied any collaboration with Russian intelligence services. The controversy erupted after a traffic accident in July revealed the presence of a Slovenian friend of Russian origin in her car. The president was hospitalized with a broken collarbone following the accident involving her official vehicle.
Among the two passengers described as friends of the president was Viktorija Krivolucka, born in Russia and naturalized as a Slovenian citizen in 2016. Several media outlets reported that the two women had traveled to Russia together on several occasions before Natasa Pirc Musar's election in 2022. These revelations led a parliamentary security committee to request a report on possible Russian interference in Slovenia.
A long-standing relationship with a former intelligence official
Viktorija Krivolucka reportedly once shared her life with Roman Jeglic, a former Slovenian intelligence official who left for Russia in the 1990s. She acknowledged living with him for several years in that country, while claiming to have had no contact with him for the past fifteen years. However, no publicly available evidence suggests that she herself collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
The presidential office maintains that Natasa Pirc Musar has no ties to Moscow's intelligence networks and also rejects suspicions surrounding her friend. Political figures have nevertheless called for the president to be temporarily denied access to confidential reports pending clarification. Elected as an independent candidate in 2022, Natasa Pirc Musar is considered liberal and pro-European and has repeatedly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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