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Will Minister Asta Vrečko Face Jail Time For Paying The Award To Svetlana Makarovič?

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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Minister Of Culture Asta Vrečko Wants To Prohibit Associations That Are Not To Her Liking

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, …

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Minister Of Culture Vrečko Is Right – Slovenian Cultural Workers Really Do Work “Hard”

On a recent episode of the news show “24ur Zvečer”, the Minister of Culture, Dr Asta Vrečko, said that recent political developments in the field of culture are an attempt to tarnish the reputation of culture and art and that the cultural sector is not a decadent field, but a field where there is a …

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Under Previous Governments, Slovenian Culture Has Transformed into an Extension of Politics: Minister Simoniti is Returning Culture to Cultural Workers

At the interpellation, which began on Wednesday, the 24th of March 2021, Minister of Culture Vasko Simoniti had the opportunity to show his achievements in culture, despite the fact that this is one of the sectors that was most affected by the global crisis of the epidemic. Under Simoniti’s leadership, culture has received record budget …

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