Quote of the Week


"Hungarian weddings [in Slovakia] are of course still in Hungarian. That's the way it's going to be, even if the Slovak National Party were in charge. I'd like to see the tough guy who would force my daughter not to use her mother tongue at her wedding."

Béla Bugár, leader of the Hungarian Coalition Party, explaining why the more controversial provisions of the 1999 minority languages law were not being enforced to the letter.


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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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