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)
How the Code eliminated Jews from public life
Slovakia marks 80 years since adopting the legislation that eliminated Jews from public life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Discrimination against Roma remained prevalent, Amnesty International says
The report details how Slovakia addressed the pandemic in marginalised settlements.
Case of police bullying: European court decided about compensation for three Romas
But it did not confirm inhumane treatment.
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.
How Viktor Orbán exports his ideology
What remains for a member of the Hungarian minority who believes in the rule of law?
Where the Roma aren’t a part of the problem, but rather, the solution
Hungarians are unwanted in the north, Roma are unwanted everywhere.
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.
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.
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