A solider in the Presidential Guard was found in possession of around EUR 100 worth of pervetine and marijuana this week, following a police check on one of the Guard’s vehicles. The solider had enough on him even to face charges of trafficking, and he himself asked to be discharged from the forces, with the [...]
The former mayor of the town of Tornala, Ladislav Dubovsky, who was on the run in connection with embezzlement and power abuse accusations, committed suicide this morning in a penitentiary hospital in Trencin, reports Tv.noviny.sk. Former colleagues and friends at Town Hall are shocked by the tragedy. Dubovsky was supposed to stand trial in February, [...]
Trade Unions just might take advantage of the World Ice Hockey Championship starting the end of April as a good opportunity to hold protests in Bratislava and Kosice. The protests are a continuation of ongoing demonstrations against how the government wants to revise the Labour Code, but now the unions are threatening to intensify their [...]
At the proposal of foreign minister Mikulas Dzurinda, parliament endorsed a resolution against the violent actions of the Belarus government at demonstrations last December, which saw many innocent people put in prison, while calling on Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko to release them and revoke all penalties against them. The motion got the support of 105 [...]
James Baxter of Britski Belasi travelled to Trnava from Zilina in search of answers to some fundamental questions surrounding International football in Slovakia at the moment; namely Where, Who and How should the National Team be playing? I ended the previous preview wondering how the Slovak national team and Trnava would get on together so I [...]
Controversial head of the nationalist party SNS, Jan Slota, expressed his disgust at parliament by spitting at it yesterday with the exclamation that it is no longer a Slovak institution. Slota’s recent display is linked to the parliamentary debate on the Minority Languages Act, which was submitted by Rudolf Chmel from ethnic Hungarian party Most-Hid. [...]
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