Boštjan Lesjak has safely arrived in Kyiv to start serving as Slovenia’s chargé d’affaires ad interim to Ukraine. Upon arrival, he said that the city was empty with audible alarms and detonations in the distance, but that day-to-day life was running normally for those who remained in the capital. As of 9:00 a.m. monday, the …
The University of Maribor has enabled Ukrainian students who had to leave their country due to the war to enrol temporarily in its study programmes without tuition under a student exchange scheme. They can also apply for scholarships that will cover their living expenses for the first few months in Slovenia. The university said in …
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Prime Minister Janez Janša gave an interview today for the BBC World Service. Most of the interview was devoted to the visit of the Prime Ministers of Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Poland to Kyiv. The Slovenian Prime Minister began by saying that he and the Polish and Czech Prime Ministers had travelled through the …
On Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Janez Janša together with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Czech Prime Minister Peter Fialo met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in Kyiv. In a statement following the meeting, Prime Minister Janez Janša said that he decided to visit because he was aware of how Ukrainians …
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“I am going to bed. I hope to read in the morning that Kyiv is now Russian and that there will finally be no more victims,” Ciril Brajer wrote recently, who was a candidate in the 2018 local elections. He ran on the list of the Social Democrats party (Socialni demokrati – SD) in the …
Minister of the Interior Aleš Hojs attended the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting in Brussels. Following Sunday’s extraordinary meeting on the situation in Ukraine, the ministers continued their discussion on the response to the situation there, which requires constant and close monitoring and an immediate and decisive EU response. They supported the European Commission’s …
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“Milan Kučan’s thinking is the same as Putin’s. He wants to divide the blame for the war between Russia and Ukraine. Independent Slovenia was also never a preferred option for him,” reads Darnika Vrabič’s comment on Kučan’s recent statement about the war Ukraine, and Prime Minister Janez Janša added that “the Slovenian public finally understands …
Prime Minister Janez Janša addressed Ukrainian people. The speech was originally published on Channel24 (24 Канал). Dear fellow Ukrainians! Dear friends! As in the case of individual events in our lives, events in international politics can rarely be described as black or white. But the war that your country has been pushed into is an …
At the rally in support of Ukraine, organised by the Ljubljana-Kyiv Cultural Association, we heard many stories that touched our hearts. All those present were filled with a new wave of optimism because of the strength and the unity of the Ukrainian nation, which knows no borders, and because of its unity in the fight …
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 war should not be happening, and whatever led to it and gave Putin a reason to do what he is doing should not have happened either,” said Milan Kučan, a former leader of the League of Communists of Slovenia at Tuesday’s so-called peace rally, adding that he was really concerned about the fact that …
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If, in the light of Russian aggression against Ukraine, anyone wonders why Ukraine is so important to Russian President Vladimir Putin and why he wants to regain it under his influence, there is no doubt that some facts about Ukraine’s natural resources need to be known. For example, Ukraine is the first in Europe in …
