Quote of the Week:


"Let's not kid ourselves. The Velvet Revolution was organised by [the communist secret service]. It's just us naive nitwits who think it was some dissidents who did it."


- Ján Slota, head of the Slovak National Party, speaking about the fall of communism on the Sobotné Dialógy talk show on May 19.


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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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