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Maďarič ready to face music over Fico's defeat in run-off
PRIME MINISTER Robert Fico and his government have successfully defended their current position on the political scene, the ruling Smer party vice-chair and Culture Minister Marek Maďarič said on news-only TV channel TA3's show 'V politike' on March 30 in the wake of Fico's resounding defeat in the presidential run-off vote.
Glváč: First 10 years in NATO helped foster security
SLOVAKIA joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) 10 years ago and NATO membership has strengthened the security of the country, said Defence Minister Martin Glváč in an interview with the TASR newswire marking the occasion.
Slovak election a display of strength of country's democracy, Czech PM says
SLOVAKIA has seen an intense, yet fair election battle that attested to the strength of the country's democracy, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Czech Television on March 30 as quoted by the TASR newswire.
Politicians were advising Roma on votes
AT THE Košice housing estate Lunik IX, in Kecerovce, Rankovce and other municipalities in eastern Slovakia where Roma make up a majority, suspicions on vote buying have again appeared, this time in connection with the presidential election.
Parties gear up for EP vote
THIS YEAR spring is campaign season in Slovakia as voters will jump from campaign to campaign. As the presidential election wraps up some 29 parties will field candidates for the European Parliament, with public interest likely to lag.
First swallow arrived early this year
ORNITHOLOGISTS observed the first swallow on Slovak territory this year on March 17 in south-central Slovakia, near the municipality of Holiša. The swallow is one of 30 migratory bird species that return each year from their wintering locations.
Roma documentary fills multiplex cinemas
THE MORE than 11,000 filmgoers who saw Ladislav Kaboš’ documentary All My Children, which explores priest Marián Kuffa’s work in eastern-Slovak Roma settlements, made it the second most-watched film in Slovakia between February 13 and March 3.
Quote of the week
“One of your firms is called Triangel, right? And the symbol of the Church of Scientology is a triangle.”
Ambiguity about wartime state fuels extremists
DOUBLE crosses seen in pictures and portraits of the president of the wartime Nazi-allied Slovak state carried by groups of skinhead youths marching the streets of Bratislava during the mid-March anniversary of the founding of that state: this is a common image each year on March 14.
Surfing the web, free of charge
WHILE free WiFi has become a traditional service available in stations, city centres, cafés and restaurants, now it is also going mobile.
Campaign gets rough and tumble
A STANDARD campaign with a lot of information: this is how Prime Minister Robert Fico, fuelled by presidential ambitions, described the battle between himself and Andrej Kiska, ahead of the second round of the presidential elections, which ended in the early morning hours on March 27. Kiska evidently did not share Fico’s assessment, as on March 26 he admitted he was worried that Fico’s negative campaign could impact the results, noting that virtually all of eastern Slovakia is flooded with billboards against him.
V4, Fico wary of carbon cuts
TWO CLEAR blocs have emerged among European Union member states over negotiations into plans for cutting carbon emissions, with Slovakia falling clearly into a group sceptical of plans to set new greenhouse gas reduction targets for 2030.
Online choices differ by gender
MOTHERHOOD and parenthood, health, education and work are the online subjects attracting women in Slovakia, while men are most drawn to cars, sports and IT, according to Gemius. The categories of women, mothers and health registered the highest share of female users, 56 percent. The highest share of male users was registered in the category cars, 66 percent. Preferences of female and male internet users in Slovakia are in line of results from other countries.
Mobile internet gains popularity
WITH ever more people accessing the web via smartphones and other devices, mobile operators hope that new LTE (Long Term Evolution) technology will spark a mobile internet revolution in Slovakia. They cite LTE’s faster speed and decreased lag as improvements over current technologies. Market watchers confirm that speed matters and predict growth in mobile data traffic.
Four items from ‘biggest museum theft in Europe’ found at auction
TEN years since the theft of 1,210 historical items of incalculable worth were stolen from the Western Slovakia Museum in Trnava, the perpetrators have yet to be found. However, four items were recently discovered by one of the museum’s staff at an antiques auction in the Czech Republic
First Slovak astronaut flew into space 15 years ago
ON FEBRUARY 20, 1999 the first and so far only Slovak astronaut, Ivan Bella, was one of three crew members aboard the Soyuz TM-29 spacecraft, which launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Baby hippo at Bratislava Zoo named Dášenka
THE BABY pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) born recently in the Bratislava Zoo was given the diminutive Slovak name Dášenka.
Nová Scéna stages famed musical
ON THE last weekend in March, Bratislava’s Nová Scéna theatre, which specialises in musical theatre, premieres a “more serious” piece, the popular US musical The Shop on Main Street, which was based on a novelette by Ladislav Grosman.
Fico’s voters boosted turnout
IF ROBERT Fico’s homework before the run-off was to mobilise his voters who stayed at home in the first-round vote, as many observers had suggested, then he proved to be a good student. Fico increased his vote count to the levels of his Smer party’s support suggested by opinion polls, but that could not compete with the vote count of all the other relevant first-round candidates, who amassed their support for Andrej Kiska.
News websites among most visited
IN FEBRUARY, internet users from Slovakia visited websites in the category of news (2.4 million page views) the most, followed by services, maps, traffic (2 million). Once again, though, social networks ended with by far the highest number of page views, more than 500 million, based on the AIMonitor carried out by Gemius company in cooperation with the Mediaserch company, the TASR newswire reported.
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