Regional News from Slovakia

(Thu 17 Nov 05) The Mayor of the Bratislava’s Old Town borough has banned a public assembly called by ultra-nationalist party Slovenska pospolitost – or in English Slovak Togetherness....

(Tue 15 Nov 05) War veterans, official representatives and relatives on Sunday remembered soldiers who were killed in two world wars and other conflicts with a minute's silence. The...

(Fri 11 Nov 05) Approximately five thousand people have gathered on the Hodzovo namestie square in Bratislava, where a peace march was held for Daniel Tupy. This former student...

(Thu 10 Nov 05) Chairman of Slovak Parliament Pavol Hrusovsky called on MPs to break off discussions to attend an anti-fascist march Wednesday afternoon in protest at the murder...

(Tue 08 Nov 05) Police have made several raids in Bratislava in the wake of Friday’s murder of 20-year-old student Daniel Tupy from Zilina, north Slovakia. The student was...

(Wed 12 Oct 05) Around thirty people were arrested in the early hours of Wednesday morning in Bratislava after a night of destruction during which Russian football fans, in...

(Tue 04 Oct 05) Nearly eighty tourists from Norway and Belgium, who were rescued from a burning Romanian cruise ship Oltenita sailing on the Danube on Sunday, are all...

(Mon 03 Oct 05) A Romanian cruise ship was on fire near the Gabcikovo dam, a part of a hydro-electric power station, on the Danube River. The fire broke...

(Tue 27 Sep 05) Two men died when a small sport airplane crashed close to an airport in Bolkovce in the Lucenec region, southern Slovakia, on Saturday. The machine...

(Tue 20 Sep 05) Bratislava and Vienna will be connected with a Bombardier Transportation rail system as of December 2005. It is a mode of urban public transport that...