Slovenia intends to take part in the Expo 2025 that will be hosted from 13 April and 13 October 2025 by Japan’s Osaka. If the country is to present itself with an independent pavilion, the cost of the project has been estimated at EUR 15 million. The government today authorised Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek to …
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The healthcare system has activated preparations for a possible crisis due to the Russian attack on Ukraine, including for emergencies that may occur due to cyber attacks or electricity shortages. Minister Janez Poklukar also announced that the system was ready to provide medical care to refugees from Ukraine. The government decided the refugees were eligible …
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Face masks will no longer be obligatory in schools and other educational institutions from Monday under the latest relaxation confirmed by the government. This applies to both teachers and students. Other restrictions remain in place for now, including the mask mandate for indoor public spaces. Slovenian health authorities will start issuing Covid certificates for those …
Foreign Minister Anže Logar called on the international community to respond with resolve and unity to Russia’s increasingly brutal aggression on Ukraine as he addressed an emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council on the state of human rights in Ukraine. He announced Slovenia’s support for the resolution to condemn Russian aggression on Ukraine …
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President Borut Pahor and US Ambassador to Slovenia Jamie L. Harpootlian met to exchange views on topical developments in Ukraine. They stressed the role of the international community’s great unity on, and unambiguous response to, Russia’s military attack on Ukraine. Pahor presented more in detail his view on the situation in the Western Balkans upon …
Following yesterday’s military attack by the Russian Federation on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, in which the Consulate of the Republic of Slovenia was destroyed, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs re-summoned Russian Ambassador Timur Eyvazov. State Secretary Gašper Dovžan handed over the diplomatic note of protest of the Republic of Slovenia to the Ambassador of …
The first shipment of 36,000 doses of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by US company Novavax has arrived in Slovenia and will be available at vaccination centres as of Thursday, according to the website of the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ). The Nuvaxovid vaccine is registered for those over 18 years old. It requires two …
Yesterday, on March 2, 2022, the Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for the Support and Integration of Migrants established a government call center, where experts from various fields will be available for explanations regarding Slovenia’s assistance to citizens of Ukraine. The call center will be open every day of the week …
The rally in support of Ukraine in two days was held in Ljubljana with senior government officials condemning Russia’s aggression and highlighting that Ukraine was fighting not just for itself but for freedom and democracy throughout Europe. The rally was organised by the Ljubljana-Kyiv Cultural Association, the Ukrainian diaspora and Ukraine’s embassy and featured speeches …
We wonder whether Prosecutor General Drago Šketa will soften at least a little and show a gesture of solidarity towards suffering Ukrainian women, children, orphans, the disabled, etc. trampled by Russian tanks, and will withdraw from the recently signed agreement with the Russian State Prosecutor’s Office in Moscow? Or will he stubbornly insist on it, …
The world has been fundamentally changed by Ukraine. This is true, although nearly all Western coverage has been scaredy-cat and daft. Russia expected to waltz into Ukraine. It didn‘t. Russian forces have failed in all their objectives. A thousand Russian soldiers die each day of the assault. In the four days prior to this writing, 4,000 have …
The Russian-owned Slovenia’s Sberbank subsidiary, which suspended its operations on Sunday due to sanctions against Russia, was bought by Slovenian NLB Bank on Tuesday. After two days of all of Sberbank’s branches being closed, all of the bank’s operations are once again working normally since Wednesday, the Governor of the Bank of Slovenia, Boštjan Vasle, …
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