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Skalsky: Slovaks in Low Lands Pack Churches Wearing Folk Costumes

Skalsky: Slovaks in Low Lands Pack Churches Wearing Folk Costumes

Bratislava, December 23 (TASR) – Many Slovaks living abroad celebrate Christmas with their traditions together, be it in churches and at meetings with the traditional cabbage soup ‘kapustnica’ being served, TASR was told on Friday by Vladimir Skalsky, chairman of the World Association of Slovaks Living Abroad and director of the

RTVS to Get €16 mn in Compensation for Lost Income from Licence Fees

RTVS to Get €16 mn in Compensation for Lost Income from Licence Fees

Bratislava, December 18 (TASR) – Public-service Radio and Television Slovakia (RTVS) will receive an extra €16 million from the state budget as partial compensation for the shortfall in incomes caused by social measures entailing licence-fee exemptions or reduced fees for certain groups of people, according to a Culture Ministry proposal okayed

Wire Craft and Art Added to UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Wire Craft and Art Added to UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Bogota/Bratislava, December 13 (TASR) – Wire craft and art, known as ‘drotarstvo’ in Slovakia, has been included on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, becoming Slovakia’s seventh element on the list, TASR learnt from Slovak State Traditional Dance Company (SLUK) PR manager Nora Cechmankova

Young Acting Talent Monika Potokárová, 27, Dies Suddenly

Young Acting Talent Monika Potokárová, 27, Dies Suddenly

Bratislava, November 25 (TASR) – Monika Potokárová, 27, currently one of the busiest actors of the Slovak National Theatre (SND) with 12 characters in her present repertoire, has suddenly died, TASR was told by SND secretary Izabela Pažítková on Monday. “In Monika Potokárová, our culture and arts have lost one of

"N'89-Road to Freedom" Exhibition Opens at Bratislava Castle

"N'89-Road to Freedom" Exhibition Opens at Bratislava Castle

Bratislava, November 14 (TASR) – An exhibition titled N’89 – Road to Freedom, capturing the era of late 1980s up to the 1989 Velvet Revolution, opened on Thursday at Bratislava Castle. Organised by the Slovak National Museum, Nation’s Memory Institute and Klub 89, the exhibition opening ceremony was also attended

Pellegrini Funds Way of Cross: Christian Tradition Important in Slovakia

Pellegrini Funds Way of Cross: Christian Tradition Important in Slovakia

Slovensky Grob, November 1 (TASR) – Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD), who attended a Catholic mass at Saint John the Baptist Church in Slovensky Grob (Bratislava region) on All Saints Day, pointed to the importance of Christian tradition in Slovakia after witnessing the consecration of a Way of the Cross, created

TASR Released over 136,000 Multimedia Stories in 1H19

TASR Released over 136,000 Multimedia Stories in 1H19

Bratislava, October 8 (TASR) – The News Agency of the Slovak Republic (TASR) in the first half of this year released a total of 136,033 multimedia products, of which 71,836 were text stories, 8,518 sound recordings, 52,223 photographs and 3,456 video clips, according to a report