Interview with Vladyslav Kovalchuk, Intermarium Support Group co-coordinator and political analyst, Master’s degree in Security Studies from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. What do you think is going to happen in Ukraine in the coming weeks, and do you think a Russian invasion as repeatedly announced in many Western media is feasible? As it is
The Prosecutor’s Office is going after the right-wing media outlets ahead of the April election, with the intention of intimidation and silencing. One of the targets of this attack is also the Demokracija magazine (Democracy). However, this is probably just the beginning. District State Prosecutor Alenka Jesenko has even decided to attack satire, which is
President and Vice-President of the Slovenian Democratic Youth (the youth wing of the Slovenian Democratic Party – SDS) talked with our media outlet about the problems that young people face today. They believe that young people should be more strongly encouraged to start a family, should be given higher scholarships, have more internships and practical
Slovenian athletes won seven medals at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, which puts the country second only to Norway in medals per capita. Overall, Slovenia ranks 15th among all countries on the Olympic medal table. Team Slovenia won two golds, three silvers and two bronze medals, four of which in ski jumping, two in snowboarding
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LPS or Last Pizza Slice, a band of five teenagers, will represent Slovenia at the 66th Eurovision song contest in Turin with the song ‘Disko’ (Disco) after winning the combined vote from the audience and judges on Saturday. LPS made it to the final of the national EMA contest as one of the four finalists
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On Friday, Prime Minister Janez Janša attended an informal meeting of the European Council in Brussels, where he and European leaders discussed the current situation in Ukraine and relations with Russia, as well as the aggravated security situation due to the accumulation of Russian forces in and around Ukraine. After the meeting, he said in
Slovenian company PharmaHemp has started building an EUR 11 million facility to produce and process hemp products in Komenda, north of Ljubljana, in what it says will bring together the broadest range of services in the field of hemp in Europe. The 3,320-square metre hemp factory will be “the most modern and technologically-advanced infrastructure for
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The sale of the York fund’s stake in the company Sava is a hot topic these days, which has raised some old, worn-out questions about the national interest and the allegedly harmful consequences of foreign investors owning shares in Slovenian companies. It began with the signing of an agreement to transfer a 43.2 percent stake
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The Social Democrats are facing a disastrous financial situation. This is pathological symptomatology that could also be observed in the former influential left-wing parties LDS and Zares, warns the editor-in-chief of Siol, Peter Jančič. Namely, the same pattern of financial impotence or over-indebtedness due to non-payment of election campaigns can be seen in all three
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We talked to publicist Andrej Aplenc, MSc, about the socio-political events in Slovenia, the European Union and the United States of America, and the related increasingly tense and explosive international events. As a man who survived the communist totalitarianism, experienced American democracy and the Slovenian transition, he describes himself as an “old democrat,” who actively
The largest conservative parties in Europe have just reached an agreement that may soon manifest itself in a political alliance in the European Parliament. But can this principled opposition go as far as the fundamental reform that the European institutions so desperately need, ask David Engels, a professor at the Free University of Brussels and
The new US Ambassador to Slovenia Jamie L. Harpootlian presented her credentials to President Borut Pahor after the US Embassy in Ljubljana was headed by the chargé d’affaires for more than a year. “My goal is to be a bridge to work every day to open avenues for working together and strengthening our partnership to
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