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UNESCO Director-General Bokova to See Master Paul's Altar in Levoca

UNESCO Director-General Bokova to See Master Paul's Altar in Levoca

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

Opposition Asks for Mandatory Excursions to Concentration Camp

Opposition Asks for Mandatory Excursions to Concentration Camp

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

Fico: Respect for Fallen WWII Soldiers Is Part of National Policy

Fico: Respect for Fallen WWII Soldiers Is Part of National Policy

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’

Slovak Radio Stations Must Play More Slovak Music as of Friday

Slovak Radio Stations Must Play More Slovak Music as of Friday

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

New Tourism Project to Link Slovak Zemplin and Ukraine's Zakarpattia

New Tourism Project to Link Slovak Zemplin and Ukraine's Zakarpattia

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.

Brown Bear Exhibition in Zvolen Prolonged to End of March

Brown Bear Exhibition in Zvolen Prolonged to End of March

Zvolen, February 16 (TASR) – An exhibition about the biggest Slovak carnivore, the brown bear, at the Forestry and Woodcutting Museum (LDM) in Zvolen (Banska Bystrica region) has been prolonged to the end of March, TASR learnt on Tuesday. In addition to information about the animal published on panels, visitors can

Parents Support Teachers in Struggle for Better Education

Parents Support Teachers in Struggle for Better Education

Bratislava, February 11 (TASR) – More than a thousand people gathered on SNP Square in Bratislava on Wednesday evening for a meeting of teachers, parents and friends of schools to express support for the demand that education should become a real and not only proclaimed priority for the Government. Among the