New boat line between Vienna and Bratislava

THE TWIN City Liner will soon connect the capital cities of Slovakia and Austria along the Danube River. As of June, the liner will travel between Vienna and Bratislava six times a day, with a one-way trip costing €25.

The Twin City Liner belongs to the Central-Danube company, a joint venture of Wien Holding and Vienna's Raiffeisen Landesbank, the Hospodárske noviny paper wrote. Central-Danube invested €3 million (Sk112 million) into the liner, which was produced in Norway.

8. May 2006 at 0:00 | From press reports

I was in the frontline because it reflected what I felt inside

One of the leaders of the 1989 student movement, Anton Popovič, remembers the fall of the totalitarian regime.

November 21 gathering of students at the Comenius University in Bratislava.

The Velvet Revolution embodies a peaceful change

Professor Ľubica Lacinová remembers her life before and after 1989.

A total of 11 hand-written large-format banners are placed on the facade of the Esterházy Palace of the Slovak National Gallery (SNG)in Bratislava in November 2019. They were created by Tomáš Gažovič as part of a digital project entitled Time-Description 1989 (Čas-opis 1989) and dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution

Slovaks live better now than before 1989, statistics show

But many people still yield to myths about the communist regime and nostalgia.

The range of products at shops during the previous regime was significantly smaller than it is today.

Government announces a state mourning for the victims of the crash near Nitra

Flags will be raised at half-mast between 8:00 and 20:00.

A black flag was raised in front of the Government's Office.

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