Culture

Levoca, May 3 (TASR) – UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova will visit the medieval town of Levoca (Presov region) on Saturday, with an agenda that includes a meeting with mayors of towns listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, sightseeing at the Saint James Basilica and an organ concert, TASR learnt on

Bratislava, April 21 (TASR) – Opposition MPs are appealing to Cabinet to incorporate mandatory visits to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp into secondary schools’ curricula and to set aside financial resources for this, TASR learnt on Thursday. Independent MP Zsolt Simon has come up with the initiative with the support of Opposition

Bratislava, April 4 (TASR) – Respect for the soldiers who fell during the liberation of Bratislava and the whole of Slovakia is one of the basic pillars of national policies, said Prime Minister Robert Fico at the Slavin memorial in Bratislava on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the capital’

Bratislava, April 1 (TASR) – Slovak radio stations will have to include more Slovak music in their broadcasts as of Friday, with an amendment to the law on broadcasting and retransmission taking effect as of the same day. Private radio stations will have to allocate at least 20 percent of their

Michalovce, February 23 (TASR) – Zakarpattia Oblast, with its main centre in Uzhhorod in Ukraine, and the Slovak informal region of Zemplin will be connected by a crossborder project focused on supporting tourism and information flows between the regions, Michalovce (Kosice region) town hall spokesperson Iveta Paleckova informed TASR on Tuesday.