Culture

Bratislava, October 16 (TASR) – Jihad, for which the militant group Islamic State is calling, could be suppressed by tolerance, said the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, who’s visiting Slovakia, on Sunday. At today’s public conference the Dalai Lama appealed to tolerance and the spreading of compassion. Peace in

Bratislava, October 5 (TASR) – The News Agency of the Slovak Republic (TASR) produced a surplus of €337,210 by earning €2,890,993 and spending €2,553,783 in the first half of 2016, said general director Jaroslav Reznik at a session of the parliamentary culture and media committee on

Kosice, October 1 (TASR) – The White Night festival taking place in Kosice on Saturday evening and at night offers visitors contemporary art not only in galleries, but mostly in the streets and public places, TASR learnt on the same day. Impressive visual and interactive installations made by Slovak and foreign

Rome, September 29 (TASR-correspondent) – Slovak Culture Minister Marek Madaric, along with Slovak President Andrej Kiska and Italian President Sergio Mattarella, opened the ‘Gothic Treasures from Slovakia’ exposition in the seat of Italian president Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome on Monday. “The ministry has financially contributed so that this important and

Trencianske Teplice, September 23 (TASR) – Despite the current fashionable trend of posing as very European, individual nations shouldn’t forget their own languages and protect them instead, said Viera Benkova, a poet with Slovak roots from Backi Petrovac in Serbia, at a two-day Congress of Slovak Writers in Trencianske Teplice

Bratislava/Monte Carlo, September 14 (TASR) – Six Slovaks are presenting their artistic work at the traditional L’Art-Bre 2016 exhibition in Cap Martin park in the southern French town of Roquebrunne, TASR learnt on Wednesday. The sixth annual exhibition is being organised under the auspices of Slovakia’s Presidency of