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Michaela Terenzani
Michaela Terenzani
michaela.terenzani@spectator.sk

special contributor

Michaela Terenzani has been with The Slovak Spectator since 2007. She served as editor-in-chief in 2015 - 2023. She then moved on to serve as the leading editor of the foreign news desk of the Sme daily. She studied journalism in Trnava and in Aarhus, Denmark. In 2009, she received a joint MA degree in Euroculture from the University of Groningen and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She comments on events happening in Slovakia in her weekly newsletter, Last Week in Slovakia.

Author also writes for: michaela.terenzani@spectator.sk, Twitter

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (l) met his Slovak counterpart, Juraj Blanár, on December 5 in Malta.

Last Week: How the Russians played the Slovak foreign minister

Numerous Slovak politicians are planning to visit Moscow next year, while offering threadbare justifications – or none at all.

Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer).

Last Week: We cannot go on like this for long, Fico admits

Early elections are mentioned following disarray in parliament.

Mayor of Smilno Vladimír Baran (l) and former MP Anton Korba (c) donate funds to Russia.
A gathering in Bratislava's SNP Square on November 17, 2024, to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.

Last Week: Remembering 1989 in an increasingly violent world

It's been 35 years since the non-violent November revolution.

Donald Trump
Hlas leader and presidential candidate Peter Pellegrini and former Czech PM Andrej Babiš meet ahead of the second round of the Slovak presidential election in Bratislava on April 3, 2024.

Last Week: Slovak government cuts a deal with Babiš, whitewashing history

Interior Ministry plays politics with Czechoslovakia’s secret-police past.

Robert Fico

Last Week: The investigation of assassination attempt is testing the integrity of the system

The prime minister has his version of the story, but the investigation is telling a different one.

Billboard of the Creative Society sect in Bratislava-Petržalka.

Last Week: A Czech journalist, a Slovak prosecutor and a sect from Ukraine

A peculiar criminal case shows what happens when a country fails to counter hybrid threats.

Zuzana Dolinková

Last Week: Fico government sheds its first minister, and consolidation is passed

Zuzana Dolinková lasted less than a year as health minister.

Lucia Plaváková

Last Week: “Stickergate” rocks the Slovak parliament

The coalition is bent on inciting quarrels instead of debating why everyone’s taxes are about to rise.

Robert Fico and his fellow coalition leaders Matúš Šutaj Eštok and Andrej Danko announce the measures to consolidate public finances.

Last Week: Fico does two things he has never done before

Breaking new taboos, PM sidelines the opposition in parliament and hikes VAT.

Michal Simecka and Tibor Gaspar during the debate about the dismissal of Simecka from his deputy speaker post.

Last Week: Attempt to oust Šimečka exposes coalition’s hypocrisy

Dozens of coalition MPs were left spluttering when PS pointed out that their own relatives also benefit from the state’s largesse.

Pavol Gašpar.

Last Week: The leaked audit, the SIS chief’s signature and Pegasus suspicions

Evidence, if any were needed, that having the son of a Smer MP as chief spy is not a good idea.

PM Robert Fico addresses the crowd at the SNP celebrations in Banská Bystrica, with the image of the SNP museum in the background.

Last Week: Slovakia is living proof of how damaging a lack of historical memory can be

When people don’t know where they came from, their future is easier to manipulate.

Robert Fico launched a smear campaign against PS leader Michal Šimečka.

Last Week: Inside the world of Robert Fico

The propagandists in the Kremlin would applaud.

Martina Šimkovičová also presented herself as a painter on her Facebook page.

Last Week: Who is Slovakia’s culture minister, and why do so many people want her to go?

Martina Šimkovičová went from the nightly news to the outer reaches of the conspiracy media sphere.

Justice Minister Boris Susko in conversation with Deputy Speaker of Parliament and former Police Corps president Tibor Gašpar, who faces criminal prosecution in the Purgatory case, during the parliamentary session to change the already-amended Penal Code.

Last Week: MPs interrupt their summer break to amend the Penal Code. Again

And still it might not be enough, with EC warning that Slovakia isn’t protecting European money.

Robert Fico returned to work - he inspected the crops on July 8.
Peter Pellegrini arrived at the EU summit in Brussels on June 27, where he represented Slovakia in place of Prime Minister Robert Fico. 

Last Week: Smer spoils Pellegrini’s friendly visit to Prague

Coalition MPs have shown how they will counteract Pellegrini the statesman.

Supporters of two groups with differing opinions on the military conflict in Ukraine met in Bratislava on March 3, 2023.

Expert on hybrid threats: Facebook is fine for recipes or kitten videos - but don't go there for news

We need to get smarter about our sources of information, says Jakub Kalenský, specialist on Russian hybrid activities.

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