Politicians are Not Funny Anymore
Making fun of politicians was a big thing two decades ago as comedians and entertainers were free at last to make jokes of our top representatives and their flaws. Now, more than 22 years of free speech ...
Making fun of politicians was a big thing two decades ago as comedians and entertainers were free at last to make jokes of our top representatives and their flaws. Now, more than 22 years of free speech ...
Rozalia is a proud owner of a University diploma from ethnology and cultural anthropology. However, she can’t seem to make use of it, as all the jobs she was educated and trained for are taken. Is getting ...
One year after early parliamentary elections, seven months before regional ones and a year before those for the European Parliament, the Slovak political scene is bubbling with activity, namely political ...
The Polish - Slovak relations are great, however there is always a „but“ at the end of that sentence.Katarina Richterova travelled across northern Slovakia and southern Poland, with fellow Slovak and Polish ...
At a time when adults all around the world are told they should quit, that it’s causing irreparable damage, and that it’s hard to get off this train, kids are taking up the habit of smoking.In fact a recent ...
The Saints Cyril and Methodius came to the lands of Great Morava where Slovakia now sits in the year 863. These two missionaries brought with them Christianity and literacy which still play a key part ...
The Czech Republic was hit hard by the recent high waters in the Danube River, which flows right through the heart of central and Eastern Europe. Bratislava, Slovakia’s largest city however escaped relatively ...
On 21st August 1968, the Warsaw Pact Troops invasion of Czechoslovakia caught many people by surprise. It was unexpected and violent, and brought on a very oppressive regime which ruled in the country ...
It wasn’t only Czechs and Slovaks who were caught off guard by the 1968 invasion. Katarina Richterova has this fascinating story of an American who escaped the country on 21st August 1968 by pulling a ...
On August 21st 1968, Ladislav Bielik was out in the streets of Bratislava, in the midst of the invasion, doing his job – taking pictures. The photographs documenting the horror were lethal to him and his ...