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Billboards stir outrage in Slovakia election campaign [May 08, 2010] AFP/Bratislava Minority rights activists in Slovakia have protested against campaign billboards by a nationalist party targeting the countrys Roma minority just five weeks ahead of a general election. [via YahooNews] More >>

Canadian coach Hanlon takes over Slovakia: report (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News) [Mar 24, 2010] BRATISLAVA (AFP) - Former Canadian goaltender Glen Hanlon will take over the Slovak national ice-hockey team next month, the SITA news agency reported Wednesday, quoting the Slovak ice-hockey association. [via YahooNews] More >>

Kia to build 100-million-euro engine plant in Slovakia (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News) [Mar 19, 2010] BRATISLAVA (AFP) - South Korean car maker Kia Motors said Thursday it would build a new engine production facility worth 100 million euros (136.7 million dollars) in Slovakia. [via YahooNews] More >>

Slovak push to promote patriotism draws fire (AFP via Yahoo!Xtra News) [Mar 03, 2010] BRATISLAVA (AFP) - Plans in Slovakia to promote the national flag, anthem and symbols in schools are drawing fierce resistance from some parents and teachers over concerns of forcing patriotic education on children. [via YahooNews] More >>

Ice hockey: Slovakia ousts reigning champion Sweden - AFP News : Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics (Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics) [Feb 25, 2010] Vancouver (AFP) - Defending Olympic men's hockey champion Sweden was eliminated from the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games on Wednesday, losing 4-3 to Slovakia in a quarter-final game. After an undefeated run through the preliminary round to claim a bye into the final eight, the Swedes were stunned by a Slovakian squad that advanced to a Friday semi-final game with host Canada, who put out Russia ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Ice hockey: Slovakia's Bartecko alert, well after injury - AFP News : Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics (Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics) [Feb 25, 2010] Vancouver(AFP) - Slovakian forward Lubos Bartecko is alert and well after suffering a severe head injury when he was knocked to the ice in an Olympic hockey game, team general manager Peter Bondra said Wednesday. Bartecko was struck in the head by Norway's Ole Kristian Tollefsen six minutes into Slovakia's 4-3 Olympic playoff victory Tuesday, suffering a severe concussion and needing stitches to ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Ice hockey: Slovakia's Bartecko suffers head injury - AFP News : Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics (Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics) [Feb 24, 2010] Vancouver (AFP) - Slovakian forward Lubos Bartecko suffered a severe head injury when he fell to the ice after being struck by Norway's Ole Kristian Tollefsen in the first period of an Olympic playoff opener Tuesday. A pool of blood was visible under the head of Bartecko when he briefly raised his head after being slammed to the ice, his helmet flying off when he was checked by Tollefsen ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Slovakian forward Lubos Bartecko suffers head injury (Press Trust of India) [Feb 24, 2010] Vancouver, Feb 24 (AFP) Slovakian forward Lubos Bartecko suffered a severe head injury when he fell to the ice after being struck by Norway's Ole Kristian Tollefsen in the first period of an Olympic Games playoff. [via YahooNews] More >>

Ice Hockey: Canada crushes Slovakia 18-0 in record win - AFP News : Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics (Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics) [Feb 14, 2010] Vancouver (AFP) - Canada got their gold medal defence off to a rousing start with a record-setting 18-0 thrashing of Slovakia in their opening game of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games on Saturday. Jayna Hefford and Meghan Agosta scored three goals each for Canada who set a record for the most lopsided win women's Olympic hockey tournament history. Canada also held the previous record for ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Biathlon: Unheralded Kuzmina makes Slovakia breakthrough - AFP News : Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics (Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics) [Feb 14, 2010] Whistler (AFP) - Slovakia's Anastasiya Kuzmina ripped the form book to shreds Saturday to win a shock Olympic gold medal in the women's 7.5 km biathlon sprint, her country's first ever winter Games title. Favourite Magdalena Neuner of Germany couldn't keep pace with the 25-year-old, Russian-born Kuzmina who triumphed by a margin of just 1.5sec. Marie Dorin of France claimed bronze at 10.9sec ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Wall dividing Slovak village sparks Roma outcry (AFP via Yahoo!Xtra News) [Nov 25, 2009] OSTROVANY, Slovakia (AFP) - Lucia Kucharova never cared much about the view from her window until its main feature became a wall separating her and more than 1,000 other Roma from the rest of their village. [via YahooNews] More >>

Love and Truth: V?clav Havel in Bratislava, Twenty Years After 1989 (New York Review of Books) [Nov 24, 2009] Timothy Snyder V?clav Havel and other members of Charter 77 addressing a crowd of demonstrators marking the fortieth anniversary of the Universal Declarations of Human Rights, Prague, December 10, 1988 (Lumbomir Kotek-Joel/AFP/Getty Images) It can?t happen often that citizens of one country gather to honor someone who was the president of two other countries, all the while claiming him as their ... [via YahooNews] More >>

VW's Slovak plant to create 8,500 jobs (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News) [Nov 24, 2009] BRATISLAVA (AFP) - German car giant Volkswagen said Tuesday the production of a new line of small family cars in its Slovak plant would create 1,500 direct and 7,000 indirect jobs as of 2011. [via YahooNews] More >>

Slovakia and Swiss reach finals (Borneo Bulletin) [Oct 16, 2009] PARIS (AFP) - Star-studded Portugal kept their World Cup hopes alive Wednesday by booking a back-door playoff place while unheralded Switzerland and Slovakia completed the nine automatic European qualifiers. [via YahooNews] More >>

Slovak Minister Replaced Over EU Funds Corruption Allegations (Nasdaq) [Apr 18, 2009] BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AFP)--Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic on Wednesday replaced the country's minister for construction and regional development amid corruption allegations over money from European Union funds. [via YahooNews] More >>

Slovak Minister Replaced Over EU Funds Corruption Allegations (Nasdaq) [Apr 17, 2009] BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AFP)--Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic on Wednesday replaced the country's minister for construction and regional development amid corruption allegations over money from European Union funds. [via YahooNews] More >>

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