Peter Dlhopolec
Peter Dlhopolec
peter.dlhopolec@spectator.sk

editor-in-chief

Peter Dlhopolec is the editor-in-chief of The Slovak Spectator. He oversees The Spectator’s editorial coverage and newsroom.

Before being appointed to the top job in February 2023, he had worked as a staff writer, a social media manager, and a podcaster for The Slovak Spectator since 2017.

He covers different topics, ranging from travel to politics.

He was born in Zvolen and received two bachelor’s degrees from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Trnava for European politics and mass media studies. During his studies, he spent some time in Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Ireland.

Discovering new music is his big passion. Some of his free time is spent doing sports and litter picking.

Author also writes for: peter.dlhopolec@spectator.sk, Facebook, Twitter

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List of author's articles, page 12

News digest: Opposition parties and Slovaks protest against government

Best Slovak hospitals, a blunder from Hong Kong, and how to spend your Saturday in Bratislava.

News digest: Several schools receive bomb threats ahead of St Nicholas Day

Slovakia's Pisa results described as 'national tragedy', snow warning issued for Bratislava, and 'Love Actually' will return to Slovak cinemas.

News digest: Report suggests Fico plans further changes to limit corruption probes

End your week with our selection of feel-good news and ideas on how to spend your weekend.

News digest: PM Fico sits down with US and Russian diplomats

World AIDS Day on a Bratislava tram, hauliers will block Vyšné Nemecké crossing point, and how to prepare Slovak wafers.

Svetlana Martynovskaya.

Meet a Ukrainian who "gives birth" to popular rag dolls

Svetlana Martynovskaya and her teenage son fled Ukraine last March.

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The Konská-Ihrisko stop.
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News digest: Interior minister survives no-confidence vote

Slovakia under weather warnings, US fast-food chain to open first Slovak restaurant, and Spanish films.

President Zuzana Čaputová talks to IBM employee Kristína Sojáková in NYC after the political summit.

Slovaks in the USA to Slovaks at home: Be more patient, optimistic and don't envy others

The Americans are gradually noticing Slovakia. They even thank the country.

Roman Bartoš with his wife.

News digest: Working for a space tourist's firm in America

Snow weather warnings issued, Slovak minister interviewed by pro-Russian website, and Slovakia's EU commissioner among the most powerful Europeans.

Climbers at the start of the via ferrata climb in Martinky, central Slovakia.
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News digest: Slovak hauliers want Hungarians to block their border with Ukraine

PM Fico will visit Czechia on Friday, first battery plant in Slovakia, and free Bratislava events.

The police are investigating the death of a foreigner in Košice.

News digest: Foreigner found dead in Košice

PM Fico at war with some media, government programme approved, HIV testing, and Queens of the Stone Age will play Pohoda.

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First light park opens in Bratislava, and a priest saves a small Slovak school

A selection of short feel-good stories from Slovakia.

News digest: Will Jesus become the king of Slovakia?

Why it's hard to punish communist symphatisers, free Bratislava events, and Slovak hauliers' threats.

Bratislava mayor Matúš Vallo and the mayors of Bratislava boroughs during a press conference on November 14, 2023.

News digest: Taxes in Bratislava may go up

New flights to Turkey, trip to Orava region, and how you can help people without home.

A wooden stand where a Brestovská Cave tour begins.
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Slovak cave and Taylor Swift have one thing in common. Their tour tickets sell out quickly.

Booking a Brestovská Cave ticket in advance mandatory to see it.

Scottish nurses in Slovakia.

Scottish nurse whose work helped the needy in Slovakia is remembered

A selection of short feel-good stories from Slovakia, and a political cartoon that sums up recent events.

Jozef Puska, 33, (left) being questioned by his barrister Michael Bowman SC at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, where he is accused of killing teacher Ashling Murphy, who was killed while exercising along a canal walkway in Tullamore, Co Offaly, on January 12 2022. Picture date: Thursday November 2, 2023.

News digest: Jozef Puška convicted in Ashling Murphy murder case in Ireland

How to spend your free time in Bratislava, interview with Scottish architect David Sim, and parking policy changes in Košice.

News digest: Fico's cabinet attacks NGOs

Iranian photographers' works presented in Bratislava, interview with a talented Slovak-English singer, and an absurd police operation.

New Police Inspectorate Director Branislav Zurian.

Govt’s overblown move against Police Inspectorate official under fire

Police Inspectorate official Ladislav Kotek is prosecuted for using an inspectorate-owned car allegedly without approval.

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