Bratislava, Slovakia News

St Petersburg News.Net Monday 28th December, 2009 Russia has warned of a possible halt in oil supplies to three European Union members via Ukraine, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said Monday.

Bratislava - Slovakia's national competition agency has slapped fines of more than 10 million euros 14.3 million dollars) on three of the country's largest banks, the watchdog announced on its website Tuesday.

Life and Style Get Out of Town By Mona Mangat Serbia's addition to the 'White Shengen' list is a great excuse for a winter trip overseas.

HIV prevalence is higher amongst gay men in Southern Europe than amongst gay men in Eastern Europe, according to an international study published in the December 3rd edition of Eurosurveillance .

The Slovak Foreign Affairs Ministry has rejected accusations levelled by its Hungarian counterpart that it unilaterally interrupted talks about the amendment to Slovakia's State Language Act, Slovakia's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Peter Stano said on December 15.

The president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Minh Triet, began a three-day visit to Slovakia on December 16.

State President Nguyen Minh Triet, his wife and entourage began an official State visit to Slovakia yesterday.

A Czech court Wednesday sent Tarek Bechara, alleged crown witness against the controversial Czech businessman Radovan Krejcir, to six years in prison for fraud worth nearly 250 million crowns.

However, there are signs that the situation is stabilising, according to this report.

Bratislava-based crude oil refiner Slovnaft will not be required to pay a fine of almost 10 million issued by the Antitrust Office of the Slovak Republic for abusing its dominant market position.

In almost 20 house searches across Slovakia, large volumes of child pornography and 29 suspects have been detained, thought to be part of an international child pornography ring, the SITA newswire reported.

I'm told that the late Rudolf Slavik was a well known "bar-dude" in Eastern Europe, although that's not where he did his shaking and stirring.

The Slovakian market may be down on last year, but Ryanair does not scale down. The airline now has a 60% share of the whole country's seat capacity, in spite of only serving Bratislava.

In Slovakia, the Bratislava airport is preparing a contract with the largest Czech private air travel company Travel Service about charter flight services from the spring of 2010.

White Crow awards are given to those rare people who change society for the better while showing courage, a better-than-average sense of justice and public good, and a persistent faith in personal principles.

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Slovenia's capital, Ljubljana, is set to become more visible on the political map of the 27-nation EU as the city has been selected to house the union's Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators , designed to boost the idea of a single European market in electricity and gas.

Slovak President Ivan Gasparovie started his official two-day visit to Serbia on Thursday.

By Lisa Chapman Austrian oil and gas producer OMV is to manage its operations in the Czech Republic and Hungary from Bratislava to save money, according to Czech newspaper Hospodarske noviny.

A spokeswoman for a hospital in Slovakia says conjoined twins who underwent an operation to be separated have died.

In Bratislava's University Hospital, connate twins were born on December 3. Immediately after their birth, they were taken for care at the Children's Hospital.