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Shortly after, Prime Minister Robert Fico announced the cull, saying: "We can't live in a country where people are afraid to go into the woods."

The massive military parade was held in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 with leaders including China's Xi Jinping, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia, an EU member, in attendance.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, thought to be the only European Union leader planning to attend, complained that Estonia's government had refused to allow him to fly over its airspace, which he said was extremely disruptive to his schedule.

Prime Minister Robert Fico's populist-nationalist government announced after a cabinet meeting that 350 out of an estimated population of 1,300 brown bears would be culled, citing the danger to humans after a spate of attacks.

Mr Scott, from Dunfermline in Fife, was a senior director at the credit scoring firm Fico and had been attending a conference at the JW Marriott Hotel in Nairobi.