The answer to the question of how the former Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek, who was also the former president of the LDS party, tried to protect his then-Minister of the Interior, Mirko Bandelj, by coming to an agreement with the editor of Slovenske novice, Marjan Bauer, is no longer confidential. Namely, the director of the …
First, let us express our great astonishment that you understood the “case” of the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) completely one-sidedly and that you did not try to get a second opinion. You call yourself “Reporters Without Borders,” which means that you are also committed to professional standards of communication. Furthermore, we would like to kindly …
Urška Klakočar Zupančič, Judge of County Court in Ljubljana, has expressed political standpoints and even falsehoods on Facebook, which are diminishing the objectivity and the independence of the judicial powers in Slovenia. Because of that Dr. Vinko Gorenak has addressed certain questions regarding this to the president of the Supreme Court Damijan Florjančič and to …
Urška Klakočar Zupančič – Independent judge or a leftist political activist? Read More »
In addition to his regular salary at the faculty, in 2009, Jože P. Damijan also earned six thousand euros per month from the state budget, with a job for the Post and Electronic Communications Agency (Agencija za pošto in elektronske komunikacije – APEK). He was analysing the services offered by mobile network operators. In total, …
When the Social Democrats, led by Tanja Fajon, decided to collect signatures for the referendum, they were faced with a critical response within the party. Delo reports that the former Minister of Defence, Ljubica Jelušič, who knows the field of defence very well, was the first to criticise the decision of the SD leadership. Samo …
The MMC web portal or the RTV Slovenia has completely lost its compass in its campaign against the current government. It has not been properly informing people about the situation since the first day of the epidemic, even though that would be appropriate for the national television we all pay for. Instead of teaching people …
The media are not inciting disobedience and contributing to the spread of the virus? Read More »
Rapper Zlatan Čordić – Zlatko has lost his status as an independent cultural worker, and with it, some of the privileges that the status brings. In its formal letter, the Ministry of Culture explained its decision by writing that in the last year, Zlatko has devoted a significant part of his time to activities that …
“I consider it a great responsibility to go on missions and kill the locals,” the musician and left-wing activist Jadranka Juras said on RTV’s Zadnja beseda (“The Last Word”) show, adding, in a very left-wing manner, that the Army only serves the imperialistic goals and the war industry. Will she have to face legal consequences …
The online Gala ZIZ Awards ceremony took place on Saturday, at which the controversial artist Renato Volker also received an award. The reason for him being awarded was supposedly his “important contribution to the creation of the alternative performance scene in Maribor.” The organizers of the festival also noted that “Maribor’s alternative performance scene is …
In 2018 alone, a total of one billion euros was allocated for non-governmental organizations, of which the amount of 333 million euros was from the state budget, and around 125 million euros are allocated for the national television every year, of which around 100 million is paid directly by the Slovenian taxpayers. But of course, …
“The president’s speech was a clear interference of politics in sports, which surprised us a lot,” said the president of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), Aleksander Čeferin, in June 2019. According to the AP, Aleksander Čeferin criticized French President Emmanuel Macron, who said at the opening of the Women’s World Cup that the …
We have a new lobbyist in Slovenian politics, who, in his public speeches, likes to say that politics should not interfere in sports and vice versa, but as it turns out, the UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin says one thing but does another. It is also not clear how, while being a leader in such an …
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