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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Ondrej Krajňák, head of the National Memory Institute.

Political prisoners are against Memory Institute reform

Coalition proposes change to legislation that would remove Ondrej Krajňák from the post of head of the National Memory Institute.

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Another police raid shows lack of equipment and training

Police have been waiting for promised body cameras since 2013.

Stanislav Kučerák (blue shirt) is a key witness in the vote-buying case.

Vote-buying scandal lands village mayor in court

Some Roma claiming the mayor of Gemerská Poloma, Miroslav Michalka was buying votes, have changed their testimonies.

Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák

UPDATED: Interior Minister refuses to leave after avoiding competition

Office for Public Procurement may impose a €260,000 fine on the Interior Ministry for avoiding public procurement when acquiring client centre.

Also communists give speeches at Union of Anti-Fascistic Warriors events.

State-funded Anti-Fascistic Union spreads pro-Russian propaganda

Interior Ministry investigates activities of the Union of Anti-Fascistic Warriors.

Land on Rajská street.

Interior Ministry bought flats from Bašternák’s brother

State lost around €1 million on deal, according to opposition.

L-R: Mazurek and Mizík in parliament on February 1, refusing to apologise.

Police pursue MPs for racist statements

Parliament, police and even Facebook are dealing with comments made by extremists of the ĽSNS party.

Government ignores anticorruption demands

Protesters gave the government two weeks to fulfil their demands.

Special Prosecutor Dušan Kováčik

Why big fish are not in jail

The most infamous corruption cases have been halted by the offices of special prosecutor Dušan Kováčik and police chief Tibor Gašpar.

Marián Božík

I was digging in the ground, crying

The League Against Cancer helps people overcome cancer-related depression.

Media face fines for improper use of 'Great Britain'

The Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Authority informed the media that fines can be up to €6600.

Anna Remiášová and opposition MP Ján Budaj

Mečiar amnesties go to Mečiar people

Perpetrators involved in the abduction of Michal Kováč Jr. could get from five to 12 years behind bars.

Time and legislation play into the hands of prosecuted businessman

Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák is again facing suspicions that he has been helping prosecuted businessman Ladislav Bašternák.

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We were joking before the trip, women from the first transport to Auschwitz recall

On March 25, Slovakia marked 75 years since the first transport of Jews to the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz.

The Hartmut Tautz memorial in Slovakia

Memory institute struggles with communists

It is hard to rehabilitate victims of socialist crimes and even harder to punish the people responsible for them, according to the Nation’s Memory Institute.

What Slovakia loses when it neglects the Roma

If the employment rate of Roma matched that of the majority, the labour market would get 150,000 people it badly needs.

Small hydropower plant Tekov

Firms divide rivers for eurofunds

There are 203 small hydropower plants in Slovakia producing less than 3 percent of consumed energy.

Dušan Kováčik

Top scandals vanish in Dušan Kováčik’s office

Special Prosecutor Dušan Kováčik has not submitted any criminal lawsuits in 61 cases he has been supervising during eight years in the post.

Submachine gun model 61.

Poles, Swedes rid Europe of Slovak arms

Europol estimates that criminals have smuggled around 10,000 Slovak weapons into the EU market.

Mukuru slum in Naorobi

It takes nuts to help Kenyans

Slovakia has provided more than €10 million to the Kenyan people since 2005.

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