Jan Kuciak

People hold up a cartoon of the new Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini during a march in Slovakia

After the murder of an investigative journalist and a government shakeup, Slovakia ponders its tenuous future

Conflict

Recent protests sparked by the killing of an investigative journalist have exposed deep-seated fault lines in the Central European country of Slovakia, where money and politics have created a toxic brew as the country now struggles to move past economic and political corruption.

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