Slovenian President Nataša Pirc Musar is facing political scrutiny over her long-standing friendship with Viktorija Krivolucka, a Russian-born Slovenian citizen whose former partner has ties to Russia’s intelligence community. The two women were traveling together during a July 31 road accident on the Primorska motorway, which brought the relationship into public view.
An investigation by Dnevnik and the APA news agency found that Krivolucka was once in a relationship with Roman Jeglič, a former deputy director of Slovenia’s first post-independence intelligence service. The pair were reportedly registered at the same flat in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in 2009. Krivolucka says she did not know of Jeglič’s intelligence background and has had no contact with him for at least 15 years.
Passenger records reportedly show Pirc Musar traveled with Krivolucka at least seven times since 2015, including a New Year 2022 trip to Moscow weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. An SDS governing-party MP has called for intelligence briefings to the president’s office to be paused. SOVA, Slovenia’s intelligence agency, confirmed a 2016 security check on Krivolucka found no irregularities. There is no public evidence that Pirc Musar collaborated with Russian intelligence, and neither SOVA nor her office has made such a claim.
Source: Brussels Signal, Dnevnik, APA
So What
No public evidence points to knowing collaboration, and that distinction matters. But proximity is its own vulnerability. Over years of close personal contact, it is likely that information of intelligence value passed inadvertently, without intent on either side. These trips likely felt unremarkable at the time. Viewed through the lens of current tensions with Russia, they look far worse. The most probable read is not treason but exposure, a head of state whose private circle created access a hostile service could exploit.
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