Today, the Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was seriously injured in an attempted Assassination. According to a report in The Guardian, Fico was attending a political event in Handlova 90 miles northeast of Bratislava. Fico is viewed as a right-wing populist with a pro-Russian stance that is not dissimilar to Viktor Orban of Hungary.  According to an article in the New York Times, Fico rose to power in the 1990s, leading the Smer Party, which started on the left of the political spectrum, to shift course and, after several years in opposition, adopted Anti-immigrant and anti-LGBT policies that were more in line with Putin and  Orban.  As of writing this, Fico’s status is unclear, but whether or not he survives attempted assassinations of European leaders is never good, despite how one may feel about their politics.