“It is time for the two-legged disgrace – also known as the Minister of Culture, Asta Vrečko – who is responsible for this debacle, to resign,” former Prime Minister Janez Janša said of the Frankfurt Book Fair fiasco. Minister Vrečko poured a lot of taxpayers’ money into the event, which was ruined by the appearance …
The payment of the 8,346 euros of prize money that Svetlana Makarović gave up decades ago because she did not want to be on stage with Fr Marko Ivan Rupnik, who won the prize for his mosaic in the Pope’s Redemptoris Mater Chapel at the Vatican, is still causing quite a stir. Namely, the fact …
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The Association for the Promotion of Traditional Values (Društvo za promocijo tradicionalnih vrednot) was granted the status of a non-governmental organisation of public interest under the mandate of former Minister of Culture Vasko Simoniti. At that time, the cultural activists not only verbally but even physically insulted the Ministry, since this status was, of course, …
Despite all its limitations, the apparatchik mind, which the Minister of Culture Asta Vrečko brings to Slovenian culture with gusto, zeal and true Comintern fervour, also has its own, so to speak, social-activist realisation. Since this is a broader social phenomenon, which the conduct of Minister Asta Vrečko brings into Slovenian life, we will call …
“With independence, the proclamation of the state on June 26th, 1991, we moved away from totalitarianism, with it we broke it. Independence is not an extension of the NOB; it is not an extension of the 45-year-old party consensus that you went to Čebine to pay your respects to. These are two stories, there is …
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The extreme left wing of RTV journalists again put pressure on their colleagues yesterday. Among them was Tatjana Pirc, a member of the Strategic Council for the Prevention of Hate Speech, and Culture Minister Asta Vrečko came to help them “depoliticise”. “I am standing here unfortunately not because I do not know what is going …
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“The government’s argument that the Museum of Independence should be merged with the Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia for the purposes of “transparent and strategically outlined professional work,” is completely wrong and, in fact, a politically motivated argument which, objectively speaking, is directed against the understanding of the meaning of Slovenian independence and statehood,” …
“We strongly protest against the government’s decision to abolish the Museum of Slovenian Independence, which has been operating for more than a year and a half. In a challenging situation, when we are facing many problems, it is even more important to build a relationship with the country as a common value. We realised it …
The Ministry of Culture’s annual media tender has in the past been an unofficial funding source for the leftists, where their ideological friends in the government handed out financial support to keep them “working hard” throughout the year. When Simoniti was in charge of the Ministry and wanted to regulate this area – including so …
“Asta Vrečko posing happily next to one of the most despicable communist dictators of the 20th century. This is a common theme of Slovenia’s far-left government,” analyst Mitja Iršič recently tweeted, adding that this is what Members of the European Parliament who support the Slovenian left, and thus apparently also the former communist totalitarian system, …
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“If former Minister of Culture Dr Vasko Simoniti and the previous Government were being scrutinised for not holding a discussion about this, then now is the perfect opportunity to finally make this discussion a reality,” emphasised Dr Jože Dežman, Director of the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia, who also said he knows absolutely …
The Museum of Slovenian Independence, which was established by the previous government and has had a director with full powers since March, will no longer exist as an independent institution. The Minister of Culture, Asta Vrečko, has decided to merge it with the National Museum of Contemporary History into a new public institution, Television Slovenia …
