Archive of articles - March 2007, page 5

Two Cervanová accused cannot take polygraph

MILAN ANDRÁŠIK and Miloš Kocúr, who were imprisoned for the July 1976 murder of medical student Ľudmila Cervanová 30 years ago, will not be allowed to take a polygraph test in an attempt to prove their innocence.

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Public land trade draws criticism

BRATISLAVA'S city council has come under attack for its Petržalka land trade agreement that was finalised on March 1.

Febiofest contrasts global history through visual media

THE SLOVAK FILM INSTITUTE and Association of Slovak Film Clubs will present the 14th international Febiofest film, television and video festival in cities across Slovakia from March 26-April 25.

Our Kosovo

Talks between Serbs and Kosovar Albanians have reached a dead end, as neither group is willing to alter its original position. This means that the topic of Kosovo will return to Slovak politics a month after it left it. Let us hope it is in a different form.

At war over the Slovak state

A RECENT opinion poll by the MVK agency found that 48 percent of Slovaks do not respect Jozef Tiso, the president of Slovakia's Second World War fascist state, while only 16 percent continue to express support for him - mainly Catholics over 60 years of age with an elementary-school education.

Slovakia aims for electricity self-sufficiency

WITH SLOVAKIA set to unplug some of its power stations by 2009, the country could be facing the expensive prospect of importing electricity. The government and Slovakia's biggest energy player are already taking steps to avoid that.

Tiso faithful flock to hero's grave

SOME 150 supporters of Slovakia's Nazi-puppet Second World War state gathered to celebrate the 68th anniversary of its founding at the grave of its president, the priest Jozef Tiso, in Bratislava on March 14.

Nuclear visit to Slovakia

Daylight savings time begins

DAYLIGHT savings time in Slovakia will begin on Sunday, March 25 at 02:00, when the time will skip one hour forward to 03:00.

Backing down

Every political party learns to quietly back down from a position it has taken. It's perhaps as difficult as declaring a vision in the first place.

Banks cooperate with Sociálna Poisťovňa

Employees say bosses knew of bomb disposal infractions

NOVÁKY - Two weeks after a deadly explosion at the Nováky military repair plant, the cause of the detonation remains unknown. But while the Defence Ministry and the Prievidza district police are refusing to give out any details of their investigation, the surviving employees of the VOP bomb disposal unit are saying that rules forbidding the storage of TNT within the building were regularly broken.

Culture shorts

Lisbon No. 2

The agreement reached at the March 8-9 European Summit to ensure that 20 percent of energy produced in 2020 is from renewable sources is indeed an "incredibly ambitious" goal, but it has several problems.

Slovakia's first trade surplus in three years

How to dismantle an atomic reactor

BUILDING a nuclear power plant is a challenge. The country needs to get the funding and sell the public on the idea of an energy source burdened by so many misconceptions, with so much politics involved.However, turning a plant off and taking it apart might bring equally difficult, if not harder, challenges than running one.

Students satisfied with universities

Slovak students say their universities don't teach them practical information or supply top-quality computers or books, but they're still satisfied with where they go to school, according to a new survey.

Kremnica and its mint

MINING TOWNS have played a unique role in Slovak history. One of them, Kremnica, has been producing coins for centuries. Until the second half of the 18th century, the coins were made exclusively from gold or silver, which were among the minerals being mined near the town.