Roman Cuprik
Roman Cuprik

Roman Cuprik joined The Slovak Spectator team in March 2012 as a staff writer after contributing to the 2011 edition of Spectacular Slovakia. He graduated with a master’s degree from the journalism department of Comenius University in Bratislava. 
In addition to being a contributor to The Slovak Spectator he has been writing for Slovak daily SME since 2015. At SME he covers crime and corruption news.

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Discussion with Bratislava self-governing region candidates Milan Ftáčnik, Rudolf Kusý, Pavol Frešo and Juraj Droba.

Who are the Bratislava region candidates?

None of the strongest candidates mention foreigners.

One of the most important responsibilities of self-governing regions is road management.

Self-governing regions have a mix of competences

Governors and regional councils decide about health care, education and road management.

Angelika Horňáková

Being a caregiver was an empty life

The fatal accident of the van carrying Slovak caregivers has opened a discussion on how these women work and live. The job agencies abuse both the drivers and the caregivers, a former caregiver in Austria, Angelika Horňáková, claims.

Slovak-born Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babiš

Babiš did not re-write the past

Constitutional Court decided in favour of National Memory Institute which included Andrej Babiš in its list of communist secret service confindants.

Marian Kotleba

How IT teacher brought extremists to parliament

Marian Kotleba criticised parliamentary democracy ten years ago. Now he has become a part of it.

The Bonaparte complex.

Property returns do not show evidence of Fico's watches, Danko's Mustang or Kiska's house

SNS chairman and Parliamentary Speaker Andrej Danko lost eight cars within a single year, according to his property return. Many items do not appear in the property returns of top Slovak officials.

Andrej Kiska

President Kiska talks about transparency, hides documents

President Andrej Kiska refuses to show contracts and invoices related to his pre-election campaign expenditures.

Flat of Roma family in Moldava nad Bodvou

Life gets harder for Roma in Moldava

Within the last few years Roma living in Moldava nad Bodvou have experienced police brutality, forced eviction and segregation.

Actor Juraj Bača with three animal actors of inspector Rex - Odin, Rex and Arti.

Police dog series far from reality

Training a police dog takes years and not every puppy can be trained to be good service dog.

Raslavice, the village where people know how to use the EU funds

By using eurofunds and state aid new Mayor of Raslavice Marek Rakoš thus created some 80 jobs in two years.

Education Minister Peter Plavčan

PM Fico wants Education Minister’s resignation

Education Minister Peter Plavčan has refused to leave, the Prime Minister demanding his resignation.

We visited Jehovah's Witnesses to talk

Russia is oppressing Jehovah's Witnesses after courts described them as extremists.

Daughter to father: I’m going to kill you

Children are often manipulated against their parents while authorities decide about divorces and custody.

Guns are available for sale on the darknet website.

Assassins and child porn; a darknet offers everything

The Slovak Spectator spent several days on the Darknet.

Foreigners queuing in Petržalka.

Desperate foreigners continue to deal with queues at the police department

Unofficial queuing lists have re-appeared, and some say they have camped in front of the department for days.

Refugees at the border between Hungary and Serbia.

Asylum seekers avoid Slovakia

The country has accepted only 16 people through its quota system.

Evangelical priest Jakub Pavlús

Evangelic Church dismissed priest for supporting same-sex marriages

Jakub Pavlús moved from Slovakia to the Czech Republic to serve as an Evangelical priest due to his views on same-sex marriage.

Košice courts were searched for bomb on November 30, with nothing found.

Police deal with increasing number of bomb threats

By the end of May 2017, there were 44 cases of false alarms; for the whole of 2016, there were 54 such cases.

Police reconsider training methods after killing a hostage

The Police corps lack a helicopter during car chases and a simulator for shooting from a moving car.

Juraj Rizman

Civic campaign expert: Anticorruption protests are too ambitious

Smer will not permit serious personnel changes simply due to students' protests, according to expert on civic campaigns, Juraj Rizman.

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