Quotes of the Week


"The day the [1998] election results were known, I said Dzurinda couldn't manage the job of Prime Minister. I was right."

Ľuboš Kubín, political scientist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences





"Slovaks must realise they'll never beat us. Now they can garden."

Czech Republic hockey captain Robert Reichel, after beating Slovakia at the World Championships, which they went on to win.


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Twice as many Ukrainians work in Slovakia now than before the Russian invasion.


Píšem or pišám?

"Do ľava," (to the left) I yelled, "Nie, do prava" (no, to the right), I gasped. "Dolšie," I screamed. "Nie, nie, horšie..." My Slovak girlfriend collapsed in laughter. Was it something I said?


Matthew J. Reynolds
Czech biochemist Jan Konvalinka.

Jan Konvalinka was expecting a pandemic before Covid-19 came along.


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