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Old March 23rd, 2016 #21
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Two Slovak MPs on Wednesday donned yellow stars symbolising the Holocaust in protest at the "dangerous" parliamentary debut of a far-right party they condemn as "fascist".

The opposition MPs wore the stars to an inaugural session of parliament following the country`s March 5 election in which the Our Slovakia party won 14 seats.
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Old March 24th, 2016 #22
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Teachers to enrol seminar on teaching about Holocaust

A summer training programme is being prepared for teachers to instruct them on how to tackle the issue of the Holocaust.

Teachers from primary and secondary schools can submit an application for this training programme on teaching about the Holocaust until March 25, the US Embassy to Slovakia informed on its website and also on its Facebook profile. They will be informed about the result by April 15. The initiative involves teachers of history, social science, ethics or other humanities, with excellent knowledge of English.

http://spectator.sme.sk/c/20124865/t...holocaust.html
 
Old September 7th, 2016 #23
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Mazurek not prosecuted for Holocaust denial

MP for the far-right Kotleba-People’s Party Our Slovakia (ĽSNS) Milan Mazurek will not be prosecuted for denying the Holocaust on a social network.

An investigator has decided that prosecutors will not press charges against Mazurek who is a member of the parliamentary committee for human rights – for comments written before he became an MP, the aktuality.sk website and the Denník N daily reported on September 7.

“When it comes to the Third Reich, we only know lies and fairy tales about six million and soap made from Jews,” Mazurek wrote in Slovak. “Nothing but lies are taught about Hitler.” His comments were examined by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Prešov and the General Prosecutor’s (GP) Office who both came to the conclusion that Mazurek’s behaviour did not violate the law, the website wrote.

A police investigator in Prešov originally rejected the matter, claiming that the MP with his comments on the social network did not commit the crime of Holocaust denial. His superior, however, thought that the police investigator made his decision too early and turned to the prosecutors to take a closer look at the case.

Holocaust denial has been a crime in Slovakia since 2001.

Justice Minister Lucia Žitňanská (Most-Híd) does not understand the decision of police and prosecutors to drop the charges against Mazurek for denying the Holocaust. “I cannot understand it,” she said for the TASR newswire, explaining that the Slovak statutes spell out a crime reflected in this action. “This is a phase when it’s no longer a question of legislation, but about how the police, prosecutors and ultimately the courts are able to operate with this legislation.”

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Old August 28th, 2017 #24
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Extremists receive patents, also preventing jokes targeting their party

Marian Kotleba’s the far right party ĽSNS has already won two trademarks; thus, nobody else will be allowed to use them, not even in jest.

These two are verbal but four more, now in the process of being approved by authorities, include the double-cross used by the Nazi-inclined World War II-era Slovak State.

The party received protection for their name and the name of its chairman so from now on, the words and phrases Kotleba – Ľudová strana Naše Slovensko (People’s Party Our Slovakia) will not be allowed to be used by anyone else, not even in verbal jokes and wordplay appearing on T-shirts like

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Old September 6th, 2019 #25
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Slovan Bratislava vice president fined for Nazi salute

Sep 6, 2019

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — A court in Slovakia has convicted the vice president of soccer club Slovan Bratislava of racism and fined him 5,000 euros ($5,530).

According to prosecutors, Ivan Kmotrik Jr. was caught on camera in May celebrating the victory over MFK Ruzomberok in the final of the Slovak Cup with what appeared to be a Nazi salute.

A court in Banska Bystrica convicted Kmotrik of showing sympathy for a movement aimed at suppressing fundamental rights and freedoms in August but only announced the verdict this week. If Kmotrik doesn’t pay he would face six months in jail.

The verdict can be appealed.

The Slovak soccer association already fined Kmotrik 10,000 euros ($11,000) last May.

Slovan has qualified for the group stage of Europa League and will face Wolverhampton Wanderers, Braga and Besiktas in Group K.

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Old February 13th, 2022 #27
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PRAGUE, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Slovakia narrowly approved a defence treaty with the United States on Wednesday, making it the last NATO member on the alliance's eastern frontier to enact such a pact, despite rowdy opposition in parliament fuelled by the Ukraine crisis.

The treaty allows U.S. forces to use two airports in Slovakia, which shares a short mountainous border with Ukraine. Western countries accuse Russia of planning an invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow denies.

Other NATO countries in Eastern Europe have strongly backed a U.S. decision to beef up forces in the region during the standoff with Moscow. But the issue is more contentious in Slovakia, where an opinion poll showed in January that 44.1% of Slovaks believed NATO and the United States were responsible for the tension between Russia and Ukraine, while 34.7% blamed Russia.
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Old February 17th, 2022 #28
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U.S. troops heading from Germany to Slovakia for planned NATO drills


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ROZVADOV, Czech Republic, Feb 15 (Reuters) - The first part of a planned contingent of 2,000 U.S. troops and hundreds of vehicles entered the Czech Republic from Germany on Tuesday en route eastwards to Slovakia for NATO's Saber Strike military drills, a Reuters witness said.

Slovakia borders Ukraine to the east but the bi-annual drills, spanning seven countries including the Baltics, Poland, Czech Republic and Germany, have long been planned and are not related to Ukraine's current stand-off with Russian armed forces massed near its borders, the Slovak Defence Ministry said.
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Old February 26th, 2022 #29
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Slovakia to send artillery ammunition, fuel worth 11 mln euros to Ukraine


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PRAGUE, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Slovakia will send artillery ammunition and fuel worth a total of 11 million euros ($12.39 million) to Ukraine, Defence Minister Jaroslav Nad said on Saturday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ia-2022-02-26/
 
Old February 28th, 2022 #30
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‘New tools’ are needed for Europe to help Ukraine, Prime Minister Eduard Heger tells POLITICO.



BY LILI BAYER
February 27, 2022 7:40 pm

Europe is now operating in a new paradigm where Ukraine should be offered a “special track” toward integration, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Eduard Heger said on Sunday.

In an interview with POLITICO, the Slovak leader deplored Russia’s bombing of civilians in Ukraine and pushed for creating a new type of pathway toward EU membership especially for Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a public appeal over the weekend on EU accession, declaring that now is a “crucial moment” to decide on Ukraine’s membership, after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded the country on Thursday.

Slovakia — which shares a border with Ukraine — is advocating for Kyiv’s EU plea to be taken seriously.

“On Thursday morning, we woke up to a new world,” Heger said. Europe, according to the Slovak leader, now needs to give Kyiv a “signal.”

“They fight for themselves, they fight for us — they fight for freedom,” Heger said of Ukrainians. “We have to realize that they are protecting our system, our values and we have to be together with them. So there is no time to hesitate on this,” he said.
https://www.politico.eu/article/slov...k-for-ukraine/
 
Old March 4th, 2022 #31
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More than 90,000 cross into Slovakia from Ukraine since invasion


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PRAGUE, March 4 (Reuters) - Slovakia has registered 90,329 people crossing its border from Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24, police said on Friday.

In the previous 24 hours to Friday morning, 11,279 had crossed, a similar amount to previous days, police said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/mor...on-2022-03-04/
 
Old March 7th, 2022 #32
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This is a pretty big international news story right now (and of course it's being used to attack Russia):

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Boy, 11, hailed as a hero after fleeing Ukraine with phone number scrawled on hand


Slovakian authorities have praised the heroism of the Ukrainian schoolboy who managed to make it to the border on his own with a phone number scrawled on his hand

By Tom Davidson Assistant news editor
12:30, 6 Mar 2022 UPDATED 12:33, 7 Mar 2022

An 11-year-old boy was able to flee Ukraine at the Slovakian border on his own.

The schoolboy has been hailed as a 'hero of the night' by Slovakian authorities after he crossed the border.

He had just a backpack, a plastic bag, his passport and a telephone number written on his hand, according to the Slovak Ministry of Interior. The report has not been independently verified.

"He came all alone because his parents had to stay in Ukraine. Volunteers took care of him, took him to a warm place and gave him food and drink,” the ministry said.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...after-26398443
 
Old March 13th, 2022 #33
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Austin Set to Visit Belgium, Slovakia Amid Russia-Ukraine Conflict


March 11, 2022 | By Greg Hadley

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III is set to visit Belgium and Slovakia the week of March 13, his first visit to Europe since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, the Pentagon announced March 11.

In Brussels, Belgium, Austin will take part in a meeting with NATO defense ministers as the alliance continues to track the war unfolding in Eastern Europe. Millions of Ukrainians have fled the country, many pouring into neighboring NATO states, while members of the alliance continue to ship weapons and aid into the country.

President Joe Biden has pledged to defend “every inch” of NATO territory while remaining firm in his insistence that the U.S. will not send any troops into Ukraine itself. Still, thousands of American troops have deployed to Europe.

After the ministerial in Brussels, Austin will go to Slovakia, where he will “visit with senior civilian military leaders there to again make clear our firm commitment to NATO’s eastern flank and to talk about ways to deepen the U.S.-Slovakia relationship,” Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby told reporters in a briefing.

At the moment, Slovakia, which borders Ukraine, has no permanent U.S. troop presence in Slovakia, but the two countries have increased cooperation as of late.

In early February, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Slovakia’s defense minister, Jaroslav Nad, signed an agreement for the U.S. to use two Slovak air bases for 10 years.
Slovakia will receive American funds to modernize those bases, according to the Associated Press.
https://www.airforcemag.com/austin-p...aine-invasion/
 
Old March 15th, 2022 #34
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Bratislava’s expulsion of diplomats prompts response from Moscow

Slovakia announced the decision to expel three Russian diplomats on suspicion of espionage on Monday. The move followed earlier reports of detentions within Bratislava’s own Ministry of Defense and domestic intelligence service.

According to the Slovak Foreign Ministry’s statement, quoted by Reuters, three Russian embassy staff have been ordered to leave the country within 72 hours.
https://www.rt.com/russia/551906-emb...russia-spying/
 
Old March 19th, 2022 #35
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Slovakia says willing to provide Ukraine S-300s if NATO fills gap


By Jan Lopatka
March 17, 2022

BRATISLAVA, March 17 (Reuters) - Slovakia's defense minister said on Thursday that his country was willing to provide Ukraine with S-300 air defenses if NATO allies find a substitute, but his visiting U.S. counterpart told reporters he had nothing to announce on that.

Ukraine has appealed to Western nations for air defenses to help repel a Russian military onslaught, now in its fourth week.

"We have been in discussion with U.S., Ukraine and also other allies on the possibility to deploy, send or give the S-300 to Ukrainians and we are willing to do so," Slovakia's Defence Minister Jaroslav Nad told a news conference.

"But willing to do so immediately when we have a proper replacement."

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who was speaking alongside Nad, declined to say whether the United States might be willing to fill the gap.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ap-2022-03-17/
 
Old March 21st, 2022 #36
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Slovakia charges two people with espionage for Russia


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PRAGUE, March 15 (Reuters) - Slovakia has charged a former military academy officer and another man with espionage for Russia, police and a special prosecutor said on Tuesday.

The announcement comes a day after the NATO country expelled three Russian diplomats. Russia said it would respond to what it called an unjustified expulsion.

Acting police president Stefan Hamran told a news conference in Bratislava, shown live on television, that police had detained and charged a former vice-rector at a military academy, identified as Pavol B., with cooperating with Russian military intelligence GRU since 2013.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...ia-2022-03-15/
 
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Why the arrested spies are close to far-right parties


The biggest disinformation website had contacts with Russians and Kočner.


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Pro-Russian informer Bohuš Garbár donated €10,000 to the extremist ĽSNS in 2016. Another man detained over his contacts with Russians, Jozef Mihalčin, worked as the assistant of MP Miroslav Suja, when Suja was an ĽSNS MP.

Several people detained by the police due to their collaboration with Russian secret services were close to the far right ĽSNS of Marian Kotleba. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kotleba's party continues to downplay the responsibility of Vladimir Putin's regime for the war in Ukraine. In the past, the police investigated suspicions that ĽSNS was taking money from the Russians.
https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22863726/...t-parties.html
 
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Parliament approves new legislation for further helping Ukrainian refugees


Refugees also do not have to pay municipal taxes and can open a bank account without the usual documents.

Compiled by Spectator staff



A law called Lex Ukraine, aimed at making the life of Ukrainian refugees in Slovakia easier, was approved by parliament.

The measures introduced by the law are related to health care, benefits for those who accommodate Ukrainians, gaining a job in schools as well as the defence and security of Slovakia.

Financial contributions and scholarships

Taking into consideration the maximum workload of the police services deciding on temporary protection stays for refugees from Ukraine, a time limit is set within which all granted temporary, permanent or tolerated stays, which would expire during an emergency situation, will remain valid until two months after the emergency situation is lifted.
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Old March 24th, 2022 #39
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S-300 to stay in Slovakia if Russia leaves Ukraine, defence minister says


The comment came shortly after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned of sending the system to Ukraine.

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Slovakia will not consider sending the S-300 air defence system currently used by its army to Ukraine if Russia stops breaching international law and withdraws its troops from Ukraine.

This was stated by Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď (OĽaNO) before the March 23 cabinet session, shortly after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov again warned countries that own the S-300 system against giving it to Ukraine.

Naď said earlier that Slovakia will try to replace the S-300 system with another system that would be fully compatible with Slovakia’s allies and provide Slovakia with high defensive capabilities.
https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22868429/...ster-says.html
 
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Slovak far-right leader sentenced for sympathy to neo-Nazism

April 5, 2022

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — An appeals court in Slovakia on Tuesday dismissed a lower court ruling that convicted the leader of a far-right party for the illegal use of neo-Nazi symbols.

But the country’s Supreme Court still found Marian Kotleba guilty of sympathizing with neo-Nazism and gave him a six-month suspended sentence.

Kotleba, head of the far-right People’s Party Our Slovakia, stood trial after he presented three families with checks for 1,488 euros ($1,633) on March 14, 2017, on the anniversary of the Slovak wartime state’s establishment in 1939.

The number 1,488 has a symbolic meaning for neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

Kotleba appealed an October 2020 ruling by the Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok, which sentenced him to four years and four months in prison.

Tuesday’s ruling by the country’s Supreme Court is final.

The People’s Party Our Slovakia, whose members use Nazi salutes and want Slovakia out of the European Union and NATO, was the fourth-most popular party in the country in the 2020 parliamentary election with 8% support.

Kotleba and his party’s members openly back the legacy of the Nazi puppet state that Slovakia was during World War II.

Kotleba will lose his parliament seat with the ruling. Another member of his party, Milan Mazurek, became the first Slovak lawmaker to lose his parliament seat in 2019 after he was convicted of using illegal racist comments about the Roma community.

In 2019, the Supreme Court dismissed a request by the country’s prosecutor general to ban Kotleba’s party. In his request, Jaromir Ciznar said the People’s Party Our Slovakia is an extremist group whose activities violate the country’s constitution and aims to destroy the country’s democratic system.

The court ruled at the time that the prosecutor general failed to provide enough evidence for the ban.

https://wtmj.com/national/2022/04/05...to-neo-nazism/
 
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