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Video of Police Shooting at Students Inadmissible; Camera “In trial use’ 27 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
Although an incident two months ago where the police targeted and shot at the wrong car containing four terrified students was caught on a police video, the investigation team looking into the dangero...
Slovaks Detained in Iran Were Shooting Documentary 27 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
The eight Slovak paragliders who were detained in Iran on suspicion of spying in May wanted to shoot an adventure documentary in the country, the server Aktualne.sk said today. The expedition included...
Protesters Against Warsaw Pact Invasion Arrested in Red Square 27 Aug 2013 | 01:08 am
Slovakia highly esteems those who remembered the 45th anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, but it does not want to estimate whether they breached the Russian law; this was the re...
Did You Get a Strange Bill from Slovensky Telefonny Zoznam? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:12 am
There are many sophisticated frauds flying around, so if you receive something that looks like an invoice for your company’s inclusion in the Slovensky telefonny zoznam of the aptly named company Slov...
Polish Foodstuffs Under Fire at Agrocomplex Trade Fair 26 Aug 2013 | 10:11 am
At the Agrocomplex trade fair in Nitra on Friday, Czech agricultural minister Miroslav Toman caused a bit of a stir when he declared that the Czech Republic might be requesting the EU for a partial ba...
Turkey Cancels Visa Requirement for Slovaks 23 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
The decision of Turkey to end the visa requirement for citizens of the Slovak Republic traveling to Turkey has been welcomed by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of th...
Arms Deals Cables Published on Slovak Wikileaks 23 Aug 2013 | 01:33 pm
The U.S. embassy in Bratislava was concerned about Slovakia’s plan to buy components for the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system in 2004-2005, according to the diplomatic cables released by the Slovak ...
Czech Republic To Top Slovak Pensions Again 22 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
The Czech Republic will top up Slovak old-age pensions to people who worked in Slovakia or for Slovak firms in Bohemia or Moravia before the split of Czechoslovakia, according to an amendment to the l...
Fewer Hungarians but More Roma in Slovakia 22 Aug 2013 | 01:49 pm
The number of ethnic Hungarians living in Slovakia has fallen by almost 109,000 to approximately 460,000 over the past 20 years, Czech daily Pravo writes today. Citing the figures from the 1991 and 20...
Court Scraps Permit for Mochovce Extension but Work Continues 22 Aug 2013 | 10:28 am
The Slovak Supreme Court has scrapped the permit for the extension of the Mochovce nuclear power plant in East Slovakia by another two units, but the government would not interrupt construction work o...
