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By Robert Anderson in Prague After Peter Pellegrini’s victory in the Slovak presidential election on Saturday the media response has been a combination of denigration of the winner as just the populist government’s stooge, together with despair at what is seen as the inevitable march of pro-Kremlin authoritarianism in Central Europe and beyond. Both these fears are exaggerated. It is true that one should not expect brave opposition to Robert Fico’s left-right government from President Pellegrini, on the lines of the first President Michal Kovac’s stubborn resistance to strongman premier Vladim…

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