Minorities, page 3

Slovakia is an ethnically diverse country. In the last census in 2021, 83.82 percent of the participants claimed allegiance to Slovak nationality. The biggest national minority is the Hungarian one followed by the Roma and Rusyns.

  • Hungarian minority: 422,065 (7.75 percent)

  • Roma minority: 67,179 (1.23 percent)

  • Rusyn minority: 23,746 (0.44 percent)

  • Czech minority: 28,996 (0.53 percent)

  • Ukrainian minority: 9,451 (0.17 percent)

  • German minority: 3,318 (0.06 percent)

  • Moravian minority: 1,098 (0.02 percent)

  • Polish minority: 3,771 (0.07 percent)

  • Russian minority: 3,245 (0.06 percent)

  • Bulgarian minority: 1,106 (0.02 percent)

  • Croatian minority: 967 (0.02 percent)

  • Serbian minority: 1,084 (0.02 percent)

  • Vietnamese minority: 2,793 (0.05 percent)

  • Jewish: 596 (0.01 percent)

The pilot project of in-field vaccination of pupils was launched in the village of Kecerovce.

Someone faints, everyone else leaves. Roma are often scared of vaccination

The Covid vaccination uptake in marginalised communities is far below the national average, provoking concerns ahead of Delta wave.

Luník IX. The infamous, misunderstood housing estate Pope Francis plans to visit

Papal trip puts Eastern Slovakia’s segregated Roma settlement in spotlight.

An artist by coincidence. Sculptor depicts Roma life

Miloš Rác wants to bust stereotypes about Roma artists.

Music is a meeting point for the Roma and Slovaks

Despite the yawning gap between the Slovak majority and the Roma minority, Roma music does not suffer from acceptance issues and continues impacting Slovak artists to this day.

One language for work, one for home. What bilingualism means for Hungarians in Slovakia

Contemporary Hungarian used in Slovakia takes some words and even grammar from Slovak.

Tímea Krekovič Beck

Some people still lower their voice when speaking Hungarian in public

I wish people would perceive us as an enrichment, not as a 1,000-year-old disease that still occurs here, says a Slovak-Hungarian writer.

Roman Mikulec and Mária Kolíková presented the proposed document at the governmental session.

Cabinet apologised for the police raid in Roma settlement in 2013

The cabinet considers the apology a humanitarian gesture towards the victims and a commitment to avoid similar failures in the future.

Irena Matova

She cannot read, she does not understand. Last victim of police raid still faces prosecution

Human rights organisations have been calling for the proper investigation of alleged police violence in the case of the 2013 Moldova raid.

Settlement in Moldava nad Bodvou

The court acquits the first Roma person in the Moldava raid case

Similar verdicts concerning most of the group facing false accusations charges expected soon.

Illustrative stock photo

Marginalised Roma vaccine-shy as long as majority remain lukewarm towards vaccines

People living in settlements show little interest in getting the jab; involvement of doctors they know and trust could help, according to field workers.

About 450 historical tombstones were unearthed at the Orthodox Jewish cemetery in Bratislava.

Tombstones thought lost after wartime destruction of historic Jewish cemetery found again

Unearthing of 450 historic headstones helping to piece together history of Pressburg’s Jewish community.

The Slovak Roma racewalker Daniel Kováč is compared to the Slovak Olympic champion and racewalker Matej Tóth.

The talented Roma who are becoming Slovakia's future Olympic hopefuls

Poverty-stricken young athletes Daniel Kováč and Annamária Horváthová used to train wearing ripped shoes and ballerinas.

Ela Rybárová
Disinfection of settlement in Sečovce

Discrimination against Roma remained prevalent, Amnesty International says

The report details how Slovakia addressed the pandemic in marginalised settlements.

Psychiatrist Péter Hunčík criticises non-transparency in Orbán's subsidies.

Matovič should bear in mind that Orbán courts Slovakia's Hungarians

A Dunajská Streda psychiatrist on how Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán chases after voters in Slovakia.

Viktor Orbán

How Viktor Orbán exports his ideology

What remains for a member of the Hungarian minority who believes in the rule of law?

The crossroad in Martinová.

Where the Roma aren’t a part of the problem, but rather, the solution

Hungarians are unwanted in the north, Roma are unwanted everywhere.

The Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce welcomed both Banksy and Keith Haring this year. Their works were exhibited in Slovakia for the first time.

In a sleepy Slovak region, the legacy of Andy Warhol lives on

Warhol's family in Miková thought he was a painter of buildings, and unknowingly burned paintings and correspondence now worth millions.

Ela Rybárová
Self-portrait of Kvet Nguyen

A flower by any other name: How a Vietnamese photographer blossomed in Slovakia

Kvet Nguyen says the Slovak name she chose is a symbol of her multicultural identity.

A bistro owner taught people in a northern-Slovak town to eat real Vietnamese food

Foreigners first to discover the place, only then did locals start loving it.

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