20 personalities receive State Awards

20 personalities, including three in memoriam received state awards from the Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová on Thursday. The Order of the Double Barred Cross, First Class was given in memoriam to the Czech lawyer and politician Milada Horáková, who is considered a symbol of the anti-communist resistance. The Order of Ľudovít Štúr, First Class was awarded to literary scholar and politician Peter Zajac, to Branislav Tvarožek, the last surviving member of the University Brigade commanded by generals Golian and Viest in the Slovak National Uprising and his recently deceased comrade Martin Janec, to the first Roma doctor in Czechoslovakia Ján Cibula (in memoriam) and to politician František Mikloško. The Order of Ľudovít Štúr, Second Class was given to the student leader of the Velvet Revolution Zuzana Mistríková, Professor Helena Barancová, coach Tibor Soós , IT teacher Ondrej Demaček, athlete Jozef Plachý, virologist Silvia Pastoreková, grammar school headmaster Pavel Sadloň and reporter Andrej Ban. The Pribina Cross, First Class was given to cameraman Igor Luther and movie artist Rudolf Urc. The Pribina Cross, Second Class was awarded to sociologist Zora Butorová, musicologist Alžbeta Rajterová and architectural historian Klara Kubicková. The Pribina Cross, Third Class was received by doctor Mária Šustrová.