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The court approved the method of appointing the acting editor for new media MMC Pirkovič

The Labour and Social Court in Ljubljana refused to issue a temporary order on the implementation of the Amendments to the Implementing Act on the Operation of the MMC. The court did not find that the changes were inconsistent with the law or the statute. Igor Pirkovič, the new acting editor of the editorial board …

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Unacceptable encroachment on media freedom! The KUL and Golob parties want to subjugate the media!

Representatives of the opposition and the Gibanje Svoboda party wrote a protest letter, in which they flatly state about the irregularities and pressures that journalists on RTV Slovenia are allegedly experiencing. Director of RTV Slovenia Andrej Grah Whatmough emphasised that the management of RTV Slovenia never put pressure on journalists and editors of RTV Slovenia …

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Prime Minister Janez Janša as a guest on CNN’s At This Hour with Kate Bolduan

Prime Minister Janez Janša was guest on CNN’s At This Hour live, where he discussed with host Kate Bolduan the situation in Ukraine, the visit of three Prime Ministers to Ukraine, the NATO Summit in Brussels and current foreign policy issues. nitially, they focused on the extraordinary meeting of NATO members, which will take place …

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Slovenia sending Boštjan Lesjak to Kyiv as chargé d’affaires

Boštjan Lesjak will be Slovenia’s interim chargé d’affaires in Kyiv, senior Foreign Ministry official Jernej Müller confirmed several unofficial media reports as he spoke on Radio Slovenija. Lesjak, a lieutenant-colonel, was previously an employee of the Defence Ministry, but has been now employed at the Foreign Ministry. On Sunday, PM Janez Janša said Slovenia will …

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Refugees from Ukraine can study at University of Maribor

The University of Maribor has enabled Ukrainian students who had to leave their country due to the war to enrol temporarily in its study programmes without tuition under a student exchange scheme. They can also apply for scholarships that will cover their living expenses for the first few months in Slovenia. The university said in …

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Sweden: Africans and Arabs raid shelters of Ukrainian refugee women

It sounds almost unbelievable and yet it happens in the middle of Europe: Women from Ukraine fleeing war and misery voluntarily return to the war-torn country because they do not feel safe in the Western European states – above all Germany and Sweden. Muslim migrants and “protection-seeking” Africans, with whom one is crammed into asylum …

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Andriy Voloshyn: “You can only imagine what people under occupation feel – fear and despair”

Andriy Voloshyn is an Ukrainian writer, political scientist and geopolitician author of books available in English who lives in Kyiv. Lionel Baland interviewed him for Breizh-Info on the current situation in his country. Breizh-info.com: Andriy Voloshyn, what city are you in and what is the situation there? Andriy Voloshyn: Hello, thank you for your interest. …

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FM Anže Logar: New legislation empowers govt to better implement sanctions

The Slovenian government will be able to better implement the EU sanctions against Russia, more specifically the freezing of assets of certain Russian citizens, now that new legislation has empowered it to do so, whereas the old legislation was somewhat “flawed”, Foreign Minister Anže Logar said in Brussels. The EU has so far adopted four …

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Slovenia sending its diplomats back to Kyiv this week

Slovenia plans to sent its diplomatic representatives back to Kyiv this week. “We are working to make the EU do the same. Ukraine needs diplomatic support,” Prime Minister Janez Janša announced on Twitter on Sunday evening, noting that the diplomats would return to Kyiv on a voluntary basis. The Foreign Ministry later told the STA …

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Karmen Švegl from the RTV war zone for Delo: “A girl from Kyiv wrote to me: You can be happy to live in a country where the Prime Minister is willing to risk his life for the people of another country”

Karmen Švegl, a correspondent for RTV Slovenia from the war zone in Ukraine, spoke in an interview with the newspaper Delo on Sunday about the visit of Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša and two other European Prime Ministers, Polish Morawiecki and Czech Fialo, to besieged Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Švegl, with whom Janša …

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Golob’s Supporter, the Ljubljana Mayor Janković, Is Still Rejecting Calls for the Return of Putin’s Medal – However, He Does Want a Diplomatic Passport!

Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković recently attacked the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anže Logar, as the latter did not extend the validity of Janković’s diplomatic passport, even though mayors are not automatically entitled to one by law. This was a privilege that Janković acquired during the rule of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia party. Meanwhile, Janković …

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