Archive of articles - August 2004, page 7

Spontaneously Slovak

SOME active and vibrant organisations of Slovak ex-patriates would like to improve their contacts with Slovak institutions, but are often frustrated by Slovak bureaucracy and the slow or lukewarm responses to their initiatives. Milan Beres, vice president and past president of the Slovak American Cultural Center in New York, shared his views on the past, present, and future of the organisations of Slovak communities in the US and around the world.

Give in to resistance

MARTIN Homola walks the streets of Bratislava like a ghost from the past. An active member of the alternative music scene in Czechoslovakia in the early 1990s, he was a member of the well-known Jesus Underground Band and organised the first two years of the annual Slovak Alternative Summer festival, the largest such festival in the country at that time. Then he left for London, returning only once in 10 years. Back in town again, he has decided to make his second visit a noisy one.

This baby's in a corner

Dirty Dancing: Havana NightsStarring: Diego Luna, Romola Garai, Sela Ward, John Slattery, Jonathan JacksonDirected by: Guy FerlandRunning time: 86 minRating: 4 out of 10WHETHER Freud actually said "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" doesn't matter. What does matter is that it's true: As anyone who relishes a good smoke will attest, the enjoyment of puffing on a fine cigar is not something that one can get while sucking on any old phallic substitute.

Expropriation for Kia begins

Eurostat: Slovaks most susceptible to poverty

Mortgage loans exceed Sk40 billlion since 1999

Lidl to open stores in Slovakia

Teachers to get higher wages

Banáš joins the SDKÚ

Fico most trusted Slovak politician

Cabinet gives green light to land expropriation

ZSSK to lay off 1,500 employees by 2006

ZMOS wants Sk0.5 billion back from state

National Privatisation Agency hopes to earn Sk40 billion from sale of strategic companies

Budget proposal disappoints ministers and farmers

Road construction spending to rise by 82 percent

Police finish investigation of the Devín Bank tunnelling

July registered unemployment rate falls to 13.65 percent

Russians accused of attempting political sabotage in Slovakia