PM Robert Fico.
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Not the best of times

People in countries that should know better are being treated like serfs, not citizens.

27. feb 2024
Seak CEO Heliodor Macko.

It’s easier to work with Ukrainians than Israelis and Spaniards. They pay on time, says a Slovak CEO.

Seak's technology can protect Ukrainian cities from Russian airstrikes.

27. feb 2024
Štefan Sališ and his daughter.

Enthusiast discovers 50-million-year-old oyster in Liptov

Find prompted a quick archaeological research.

Romana Vicianová 27. feb 2024
Robert Fico and Vladimir Putin in 2016.
26. feb 2024

News digest: Explaining PM Fico's fear inducing words about Paris meeting

Slovak NHL player's contract terminated over video, Ukrainian graphic designer makes a war poster a day, and how Ukrainians feel in Slovakia.

26. feb 2024
PM Robert Fico.
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St. Martin Cathedral in Bratislava.
26. feb 2024
Adam Ružička.

Slovak NHL player's contract terminated after controversial Instagram video

He won't be participating in matches ahead of May World Championship.

26. feb 2024
Peter Rusiňák.

What can Slovakia learn from Lithuania, Romania and Poland?

A good strategy for business service centres would be a start, says expert Peter Rusiňák.

26. feb 2024
Robert Fico

Last Week: Fico offers cold comfort to Ukraine, two years into Russia’s aggression

The prime minister denies that Slovakia has territorial claims on Ukraine, but still talks of ‘neo-Nazis’.

26. feb 2024
Graphic designer Mykola Kovalenko.

Russians know about war. But they prefer vodka, says Ukrainian graphic designer

Bratislava-based Ukrainian artist Mykola Kovalenko on childhood in the Soviet Union, Russian people, war and the Slovak capital.

Kristína Kúdelová 25. feb 2024
Protest march near the Russian embassy in Berlin.

News digest: SaS calls for Navalny death probe, queries Slovak foreign policy

Slovak hydro plants break production record, where to spend spring break, and a recent presidential poll

23. feb 2024
Jozef Hambálek, pictured at a Smer party protest on September 20, 2022.

Report: EU to lift sanctions against pro-Russian Slovak Jozef Hambálek

Some additional Russian businessmen will no longer be subject to sanctions.

23. feb 2024
The Čierny Váh Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant is the largest pumped storage hydroelectric power plant in Slovakia, and is operated by SE.

Slovak hydroelectric plants achieve record-breaking performance

Their January output was the highest in the last 25 years.

23. feb 2024
Head-frame in the open-air mining museum in Banská Štiavnica.

Weekend: What to do over spring break? Put helmet on and walk in mine tunnel

Pioneer of Japanese hip-hop in Trnava, curiosity market. Here's what to do during the weekend of February 23-25.

23. feb 2024
The first Love Bank is situated in Banská Štiavnica, central Slovakia.

Slovak romance goes global as New York Times reports on famous attraction

A selection of short feel-good stories from Slovakia.

23. feb 2024
Prime Minister Robert Fico on February 22, 2024.

News digest: Fico to "hijack" Slovakia's intelligence agency, opposition says

Justice Ministry scraps support for human rights initiatives, where to decompress in Bratislava at the weekend, and a quake reported from eastern Slovakia.

22. feb 2024

Top 10 events in Bratislava for foreigners

Tips for events between February 25 and March 2.

22. feb 2024
The church in Jankovce, eastern Slovakia, is damaged following an earthquake on October 9, 2023.

Mild earthquake strikes in eastern Slovakia

The earthquake had a magnitude of 3.0.

22. feb 2024
Asian Tiger Mosquito was detected in Bratislava's Ružinov.

Dangerous Asian tiger mosquito already home in Bratislava

It can transmit dozens of different viruses.

22. feb 2024
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