Archive of articles - April 2005, page 6

Court: Ministry must explain contracts

Confronting a legacy of rationalization

DECADES of living under the Communist regime caused people to develop a special survival mechanism based on one's ability to dodge the system. If you could exclude state institutions from your life, you could expect the admiration - not the condemnation - of those around you.

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"Wind" blows a gale in business circles

Genuine solid blues

WHAT defines blues music? Is it its microtonic tonalities, harmonic structure, or chaotically autobiographical lyrics? Or perhaps its melancholy beauty? Most likely, it's all of these combined.

Sad loss of gentle satirist

STANO Radič, the popular Slovak humorist, died suddenly at the age of 49 on April 8.The comedian's intelligent and natural humour is a great loss to the country, for the politicians he often made gentle fun of, and the public at large, for whom he was an unlikely idol.

Slovak art goes to Washington

AFTER Slovakia and the United States firmed up their political partnership at the February summit in Bratislava between the American and Russian presidents, the need to connect on a cultural level is being recognized as well.

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Nuclear delays foiled by treaty

SLOVAKIA must close down reactors 1 and 2 of the V1 nuclear power plant at Jaslovské Bohunice by 2006 and 2008, respectively, in line with the EU Accession agreement.

Land tug-of-war close to complete

THE SLOVAK cabinet once again failed to reach an agreement regarding the land that Korean carmaker KIA needs to complete its new production facility north of Žilina. However, a majority of ministers are leaning toward paying the price the landowners originally requested.

SMK criticized for past controversy

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New car registrations reach 5,640 in March

Slovakia's Roma decade begins

Slovakia pays large NATO bill

Council to encourage British investments

Rožňava

As we can see in this picture from 1932, Rožňava is no exception. The town's borders are only a few metres from its huge medieval square, the largest of its kind in Slovakia.

Bad debt removes minister

DEPUTY Transport Minister Mikuláš Kačaljak will hand in his resignation May 1. The decision comes after New Citizen's Alliance (ANO) Chairman Pavol Rusko called on Kačaljak to step down after information surfaced linking him to bad debts.