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A new president-elect in tiny Slovakia may point to a push against corruption and right-wing populism

When crusading lawyer Zuzana Caputova last week became the first woman elected president of Slovakia, one of her first gestures was both poignant and pointedly symbolic.

She made a pilgrimage to a makeshift shrine memorializing journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, Martina Kusnirova, who were killed nearly 14 months ago in what authorities have alleged was a brazen hit ordered by one of the Central European country's richest businessmen.

Caputova's March 30 election victory was widely viewed as having been spurred not only by public anger over the young couple's deaths, but also by

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