Slovakia News

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia -; Thousands of Slovaks are protesting in the capital to demand that top politicians accused of corruption step down.

As informative, fun and social as the Internet is, it can also be rife with content that is inappropriate for children, which the Beneva Foundation campaign illustrates quite literally.

Novinite.com and Novinite.bg are publishing an opinion article on Hungary 's economic situation by Hungarian economist Dr.

Charles and Zuzana Wiseley of Chelsea announce the birth of a girl, Greta Lydia at St.

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is hoping to benefit from its 20 years of experience garnered in some former Soviet-bloc countries.

A Slovak court last week reportedly blocked publication of a book implicating a private equity group in a high-level graft scandal.

The demonstrators shouted: "To Jail!" in reference to politicians that one of the speakers at the event described as more dangerous and harmful than bank robbers, the Sme daily reported.

Bilateral relations and the continued presence of the Slovak ISAF contingent in Afghanistan were discussed at a meeting between Slovak President Ivan GaA paroviA and US Ambassador to Slovakia Theodore Sedgwick on February 8, GaA paroviA 's spokesman Marek TrubaA told the TASR newswire.

The 27-year-old, who has worked here for years, now faces unemployment as the company implements major layoffs.

Move Comes Amid Protests Over Reports in 'Gorilla' File Vienna, Feb 7, 2012 – A Slovak court last week reportedly blocked publication of a book implicating a private equity group in a high-level graft scandal.

An anti- ACTA rally took place in Bratislava on Feb. 4. On the protest's Facebook page [sk], nearly 7,500 people wrote they would attend, and over 3,800 wrote they'd "maybe" attend.

TALL IN THE SADDLE : Polish Highlanders carrying papal flags, ride horses to take part in beatification ceremonies for the late Pope John Paul II in Krzeptowki, outside Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains.

The temporary ban on publication of the book by journalist Tom Nicholson on political corruption in Slovakia is not censorship, according to the Bratislava I District Court, which stated on February 6 that an individual's right to personal protection prevails over publication of the book, the SITA newswire reported.

Protests across Central Europe suggest a disconnect between the masses and politicians, who cling to an elitist view of policy-making. It's easy to laugh at Lucie Gallova, the main organizer of the recent protests against corrupt politicians in Slovakia.

Navigation on the section of the Danube River between Bratislava and GabA A kovo dam has been suspended due to ice floes, the SITA newswire reported.

From the 17th century they were among the great landowner magnates of the Kingdom of Hungary, during the time it was part of the Habsburg Empire and later Austria-Hungary . The Esterhzys arose among the minor nobility of the northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary .

Tracing her family's Slovakian roots was something Kay Ann Cober had always wanted to do.

ROBERT Redhammer envisions a university campus where firms involved in scientific and technological ventures regularly bump into students and routinely involve them in their projects, while students have an opportunity to work on diploma theses that could have better practical applications.

Protest against high-level political corruption in Slovakia took place on February 3 in Bratislava, Nitra, KoA ice, Zvolen, A1 2ilina, TrenA A n, Prievidza, PreA ov and SpiskA NovA Ves.

Thousands of angry Slovaks marched through the capital Bratislava and five major towns on Friday in protest at a major corruption scandal which has rattled the outgoing centre-right cabinet and boosted populist parties ahead of March elections.