List of author's articles, page 17
Slovakia wants Schengen entry on schedule
INTERIOR Minister Robert Kaliňák has announced that Slovakia will be prepared when the time comes to join the Schengen zone.
Two Cervanová accused cannot take polygraph
MILAN ANDRÁŠIK and Miloš Kocúr, who were imprisoned for the July 1976 murder of medical student Ľudmila Cervanová 30 years ago, will not be allowed to take a polygraph test in an attempt to prove their innocence.
Public land trade draws criticism
BRATISLAVA'S city council has come under attack for its Petržalka land trade agreement that was finalised on March 1.
At war over the Slovak state
A RECENT opinion poll by the MVK agency found that 48 percent of Slovaks do not respect Jozef Tiso, the president of Slovakia's Second World War fascist state, while only 16 percent continue to express support for him - mainly Catholics over 60 years of age with an elementary-school education.
Slovak bishops support Archbishop Sokol
THE PERMANENT council of Slovakia's Catholic Bishops' Conference (KBS) has come to the defence of Archbishop Ján Sokol of the Bratislava-Trnava diocese.
Scandal veteran Kavan now advising Fico
SWEDISH investigative journalists made a splash in the Czech Republic recently by airing a TV report featuring Jan Kavan, the former Czech foreign minister and the chairman of the UN General Assembly from 2002 to 2003, breezily describing corruption among top Czech officials.
Polygraph absolves Cervanová accused
LIE detector tests administered to four of the six men sentenced to jail in 1982 for the murder of medical student Ľudmila Cervanová have shown that none of them had anything to do with the crime.
Ministry pays off controversial arms trader
FOLLOWING a court case with the Slovak government lasting almost a decade, the Defense Ministry has paid Sk200 million as part of an out-of-court settlement in the case of the Katrim Stella arms trading firm, the Nový Čas daily reported on February 22.
Prosecutor: Lexa never got justice
FORMER Bratislava Region prosecutor Michal Serbin maintains to this day that Ivan Lexa, the former director of the Slovak intelligence service (SIS) from 1995 to 1998, was guilty as charged.
High court in good, professional hands
PRESIDENT Ivan Gašparovič quashed fears he would stack the Constitutional Court with government puppets on February 12, naming to the country's highest court nine new justices known more for their professional skills than for their political backgrounds.
Justice Brňák unrepentant over Gaulieder vote
ONE OF the nine people named to the Constitutional Court by President Ivan Gašparovič on February 9 helped the Slovak parliament in 1996 to violate the constitutional rights of MP František Gaulieder.
Archbishop in hot water over ŠtB ties
ARCHBISHOP Ján Sokol faces new charges he collaborated with the communist-era ŠtB secret police following the release of documents showing he voluntarily informed the ŠtB on church affairs and the doings of an emigrant priest he met on a trip to the Vatican.
Cervanová accused still waiting for verdicts
MILAN Andrášik and Miloš Kocúr, two men found guilty of murdering medical student Ľudmila Cervanová in 1976, are still waiting for written verdicts from the Supreme Court to be delivered before they can proceed with further appeals.
Matica journal doubts Holocaust
FOLLOWING reports in January that Slovak cultural heritage group Matica Slovenská was allowing a magazine produced by its Nitra branch to be published by a far-right organization, Matica removed the link to the magazine from its home site, www.matica.sk.
Harabin dumps Králik as Special Court chief
IGOR Králik, the chief justice of the Special Court for political and organized crime cases, will be forced to leave his post on April 1 despite having won two successive job tenders.
Matica Slovenská working with extreme right group
THE MATICA Slovenská national heritage organization, which receives millions of crowns every year in support from the state budget, is allowing its official publication, Matičné Zvesti, to be published and distributed by a far-right group.
Far-right party nominee to lead ÚPN
A YOUNG historian with nationalist leanings has been elected the new chairman of the Nation's Memory Institute (ÚPN), an archive that documents and publishes state crimes committed under Slovakia's 20th century fascist and communist regimes.
ÚPN: Ján Langoš did not lose Široký file
PARLIAMENT is due to vote on a new director for the Nation's Memory Institute on February 1, but even if it manages to select a name seven months after former head Ján Langoš was killed in a car crash, doubts over the future of the Institute are unlikely to go away.
Investor Rehák wearies of financing Týždeň weekly
WEEKS after returning from a sojourn in pre-trial custody on extortion charges, entrepreneur Ladislav Rehák says he is putting a For-Sale sign on a pro-opposition weekly he owns, the up-market Týždeň.
The cherry on the cake?
WHEN THE election terms of 6 Constitutional Court justices expire on January 22, the court, whose function is to protect the basic rights and freedoms of Slovak citizens, will be left with only 4 justices of its full complement of 13.
- Perk, Trnava: “Stylish, affordable, and seriously tasty” – restaurant review
- Ambulance hit by Russian drone goes on display in centre of Bratislava
- News digest: Police linked to Fico gunman video leak – minister accused of cover-up
- Slovakia’s labour market falters as migration policy falls behind EU neighbours
- Slovakia’s public finances remain in deep trouble
- Cyclists, sausages and a railcar called Hurvínek Photo
- Police bosses handed cut-price “luxury” flats in Bratislava
- In Slovak slang, everything is 'nuts'
- Perk, Trnava: “Stylish, affordable, and seriously tasty” – restaurant review
- Ambulance hit by Russian drone goes on display in centre of Bratislava
- Slovakia’s public finances remain in deep trouble
- 3 free things to do in Bratislava in the next seven days
- Bratislava’s embassy-backed events you don’t want to miss
- Slovakia mourns Pope Francis, a shepherd of hope and humility Photo
- Hundreds of people ousted from Bratislava’s Volkswagen
- News digest: Police linked to Fico gunman video leak – minister accused of cover-up
- Ambulance hit by Russian drone goes on display in centre of Bratislava
- “Return not,” the ocean cried. But I returned for her
- Bratislava’s embassy-backed events you don’t want to miss
- Perk, Trnava: “Stylish, affordable, and seriously tasty” – restaurant review
- Slovakia’s public finances remain in deep trouble
- The British Film Institute shines a light on Slovak cinema’s boldest chapter Video
- 3 free things to do in Bratislava in the next seven days
- Slovakia mourns Pope Francis, a shepherd of hope and humility Photo
- “Return not,” the ocean cried. But I returned for her
- Ambulance hit by Russian drone goes on display in centre of Bratislava
- 3 free things to do in Bratislava in the next seven days
- US giant pulls plug on Slovak factory, axing 137 jobs
- Hundreds of people ousted from Bratislava’s Volkswagen
- Bratislava’s embassy-backed events you don’t want to miss
- German shoemaker Lowa joins wave of factory closures in Slovakia
- When to shop over Easter: Opening hours for supermarkets in Slovakia
- News digest: Police linked to Fico gunman video leak – minister accused of cover-up
- Police bosses handed cut-price “luxury” flats in Bratislava
- Cyclists, sausages and a railcar called Hurvínek Photo
- Slovakia’s labour market falters as migration policy falls behind EU neighbours
- Remembering the priest-scientist and pioneer of wireless communication
- Perk, Trnava: “Stylish, affordable, and seriously tasty” – restaurant review
- What is Pope Francis’s message to the powerful?
- Slovakia mourns Pope Francis, a shepherd of hope and humility Photo More articles ›
