Ľuboš Blaha is a Slovak politician and a member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, a praesidium constituent of the left-wing populist party Direction – Slovak Social Democracy and pro-Russian Robert Fico’s foreign-policy assistant. Blaha has performed as a Member of the European Parliament since 2024, having previously functioned as an MP of the National Council of Slovakia from 2012 to 2024. Blaha is very critical of the European Union and is labelled as a “Russian agent” by critics.
Based on his political activities, he has been one of Slovakia’s greatest supporters of the Russian Federation since the Russo-Ukrainian War began. He is an apologist for Vladimir Putin’s administration. He perceives the situation in Ukraine as a geopolitical clash between the West and Russia, and he repudiates what he considers one-sided criticism of Russia and the expanding Russophobia in Europe. He has openly slammed the Sanctions against Russia and he represents Russia as a friendly nation that emancipated Slovakia from fascism in 1945.
In July 2020, Blaha was scrutinised by the Slovak Police under the law that prohibits rejecting or approving genocide or offences against humanity. Blaha had published on Facebook “lies about murderous communists and innocent victims”, arguing that the Communist regime had eradicated gangsters and benefited ordinary people. In 2023 pro-Russian Ľuboš Blaha also removed the EU flag from his office and stowed the portrait of President Zuzana Čaputová in a closet in his parliamentary office.
Moreover, Ľuboš Blaha calls Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a clown, Ukraine’s greatest disaster, and claims he is just a tool of the US. In another post, Blaha claims that Zelensky’s government is just a “client regime” of the US. Ľuboš Blaha, who has long been nurturing pro-Russian views, also indicates that the US is behind European sanctions against Russia, which, however, do not impact Russia in any way. According to him, they are not even sanctions against Russia, but against us – against Europeans, against Slovaks. With this, Blaha demands the needs of citizens while spreading fear with false assertions. This way, he strives to explain the true aggressor responsible for the crisis.
