 On May 16, 2019, the Russian Foreign Ministry criticized the extremist policies and tactics of Kotleba-ĽSNS.On July 20, 2019, freshly elected party MEP and a member of the committee for friendship with the Russian Federation, Miroslav Radačovský, spoke alongside Viktor Medvedchuk, a well known Ukrainian conservative pro-Russian politician and oligarch, who was having a conference in the European Parliament on the topic named "Plan for the Restoration of Peace in Ukraine".Alongside Radačovský, there were also many other MEPs from other countries, such as Alexandra Phillips and Nathan Gill of the Brexit Party, French MEP Nicolas Bay of Rassemblement National, Spanish MEP Javier Nart of the Ciudadanos Movement, and Tatjana Ždanoka of the Latvian Russian Union.