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Three candidates vie for Supreme Court head; Borec declines to nominate one
THREE candidates will compete for the post of Supreme Court president, which was left vacant after Štefan Harabin’s term expired on June 22. The election is due to take place on September 16.
Kiska wants letter allowing 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion in Slovak archives
A COPY of the letter based on which Warsaw Pact armies were permitted to cross the border of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 should be part of Slovakia’s national archives, President Andrej Kiska stated on August 23, adding that he will request a copy from Moscow at an appropriate time.
Analyst: Slovakia could have problems if Russia cuts oil supplies
SLOVAKIA could encounter serious problems if the flow of Russian oil is interrupted in Ukraine, as it acquires all of its oil supplies via its eastern neighbour, analyst Jozef Badida from the energieprevas.sk website told TASR on August 22.
Consumer confidence slightly up in July
THE MOOD among consumers in Slovakia improved in July compared to June, with the indicator of consumer confidence going up 1.7 points month-on-month to -9.9 points, the Statistics Office reported on August 22.
Foreign Minister supports sanctions against Russia, but defends PM
FOREIGN Minister Miroslav Lajčák approves of the sanctions enacted against the Russian Federation over the conflict in Ukraine, he repeated in a recent interview with the Hospodárske Noviny daily.
Minimum wage to rise next year
THE LABOUR Ministry has proposed a 7.95 percent rise in the minimum wage, a change that bumps low earners’ monthly pay by €28 per month to €380. The increase is the biggest in recent years, where increases have typically stayed in the 3-4 percent range. The proposal still has to be approved by the rest of the cabinet.
Charting the SNP's military course
“START with evacuation”. In response to the start of the Nazi German occupation of Slovakia, Slovak Army Lieutenant Colonel General Ján Golian issued this code for military units on the evening of August 29, 1944, which signalled the start of active military defence against the occupation. Germans sent the occupational army to Slovakia to help the Slovak government extinguish the partisan movement. The president of the wartime Slovak state, Jozef Tiso, agreed to the occupation on August 28.
Remembering 1968 Soviet invasion
PRESIDENT Andrej Kiska called the invasion of Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968 by Warsaw Pact countries one of the darkest events in modern Slovak history.
Possible Slovak citizen detained
UKRAINIAN soldiers detained an alleged Slovak, the first EU citizen, for participating with pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine on August 19. The man carried a passport showing Slovak citizenship and residence in the town of Banská Bystrica. Yet, a former soldier of the Slovak army and a resident of Banská Bystrica with the same name says his identity may have been stolen.
'American ambassadors of music' to play in Slovakia
TO COMMEMORATE the 70th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising (SNP), the United States Air Forces in Europe Band (USAFE) returns to Slovakia at the end of August to perform six concerts in five cities between August 27 and September 1.
Slovak landscapes, past and present
THE BIGGEST exhibition in the Slovak National Gallery (SNG) in 2014 is called Two Landscapes, whose subtitle reads: Picture of Slovakia: 19th Century x The Present Time. As the name suggests, the exhibition juxtaposes two different periods and perceptions of artistic depictions of Slovakia – that of the late 18th and 19th century, in contrast with the late 20th and early 21st century.
Gothoom festival ends without serious incidents
THE GOTHOOM heavy metal music festival took place on August 13-16 in Nová Baňa, a town in Banská Bystrica Region, without any major incidents. While the organisers are pleased with how the event turned out, some of the inhabitants who had criticised the concerts and called for it to be cancelled say it was too loud.
Making history
MANY Slovaks will associate the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) with the long weekend they get thanks to August 29 falling on a Friday. Those born before the 1980s might recall centrally organised celebrations of the SNP when as students they had to wear their pioneer uniform, the blue shirt with the red scarf around their neck designed for the Communist Party’s youth organisation, and march to the town square to listen to endless speeches about the leading role the communists had in everything good in their life.
Debunking some of the SNP myths
HISTORICAL events of great importance are often connected with myths and the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) is no exception. Many seek to depict the uprising negatively as a communist coup that led to unnecessary war-related damages for Slovak citizens. Historians point out that people spreading such myths lack information and tend to apply partially bad experiences of eyewitnesses to the whole uprising.
Slovaks films to be screened in two Australian cities
SEVERAL Slovak films will be screened at the second Czecho-Slovak festival in Australia held in Melbourne and Sydney between August 21 and September 7. Altogether 16 films will be Slovak only or made in co-productions, the Slovak Film Institute (SFÚ) wrote in the press release.
SNP interpreted via art, culture
CULTURAL institutions are hardly left out of the 70th anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising (SNP), as myriad exhibitions, films and theatre events attest. Much of the focus remains on how this 1944 uprising against the Nazi-allied Slovak government of the time should be interpreted today. As the 20th century communist regime sought to use the uprising for its own means, the interpretations of this key historical event are changing and developing with the flow of time. Artists, past and present, are among those reflecting on such issues.
Testing of Roma kids condemned
RIGHTS activists have long pointed out that special education schools house a disproportionate number of children from Roma communities. They have alleged that these children are being over-diagnosed and are thus stripped of any real opportunities early in life as they fall further and further behind others of the same age while studying in schools meant for children with mental disabilities.
Uprising's legacy has new resonance
CELEBRATIONS of the 70th anniversary of the major anti-fascist resistance staged by Slovaks during the World War II are taking place amid a wave of nationalism and a resurgent far-right in Europe. Slovaks have not been exempt as the country’s answer to the likes of Farage, LePen or Jobbik - is Marian Kotleba, governor of Banská Bystrica Region since November 2013.
Slovaks less religious than previously thought
THE VAST majority of Slovaks claim to have some religious affiliation, with most describing themselves as Roman Catholic. But on closer inspection, the population is far less religious than the simple numbers of believers would suggest.
At NATO's Newport summit a return to deterrence
NATO came into being as a direct reaction to, inter alia, the Soviet Union sponsored overthrow of the democratic government of the Czechs and Slovaks in 1948. At the time, it became clear that Joseph Stalin had a vision of a hostile international environment leading to communism’s triumph. The democratic world was left with no viable alternative but to contain and deter.'
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