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The Nov. 17 revolution - then and now

SEVENTEEN years ago on November 17, the totalitarian system in the former Czechoslovakia began to fall apart. Although the brutal interference of the police with students demonstrating on Václavské Náměstí in Prague led to violence, calm prevailed, and history remembers the occasion as a peaceful transition. Hence the poetic name: the Velvet Revolution.

Ľuba Lesná 13. nov 2006

PRESS digest: SME DAILY

13. nov 2006

Decision time

13. nov 2006

More political nominations to state companies

Compiled by Spectator staff 13. nov 2006

Bratislava readies for clash of the titans

THERE WAS a time in Slovakia when the prospect of municipal elections would evoke a collective yawn. But that was before a public sector reform gave Slovakia's regions, towns and villages 94 percent of all personal income taxes collected in the country, as well as significant clout over schools, roads and health care.

Ľuba Lesná 13. nov 2006

Some mothers do 'ave 'em

THE MOMENT Marián Kočner said he was running for Bratislava mayor, you just knew it was going to be a fun race. On the one hand is the stiff and somewhat nerdy incumbent, Andrej Ďurkovský, who by all accounts has done a wonderful job of patching up the Old Town.

13. nov 2006