In 2021, the non-governmental organisation the Legal Network for the Protection of Democracy (Pravna mreža za varstvo demokracije) and the law firm Pirc Musar & Lemut, co-founded by none other than the current President of the Republic, filed a criminal complaint with the District State Prosecutor’s Office against Uroš Urbanija, the then-Director of the Government …
“The Acting Director-General or the new President of the Management Board of the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia, Zvezdan Martić, has literally made an epic managerial start,” said investigative journalist Bojan Požar, referring to the three recent changes in the position of acting head of the Multimedia Centre of RTV Slovenia. Martić did not stop …
We, ordinary people, go to work and arrange our annual leave by telling our employers when we plan on being away in December already. The private sector work process cannot afford to have a worker absent from work for two weeks and the employer finding out about it right before a big order, for example. …
The management of RTV Slovenia strongly protests against the unacceptable pressure and interference of the Minister of Culture, Asta Vrečko, in the operational management of the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS), wrote Uroš Urbanija, Acting Director of Television Slovenia, in a press release. “A minister who clearly does not understand basic democratic principles should …
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“I meet Milan Kučan at the entrance to a restaurant in Rateče. Because he is old, I hold the door for him. And he asks me: They haven’t locked you up yet? I look at him in surprise and ask if they haven’t locked him up yet, either. He says they have not. And I …
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In the middle of the week, the government appointed representatives of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Public Administration to help the journalists’ union resolve disagreements between journalists and the management of RTVS. As the representatives of the founder of the public institution, the government appointed the state secretary at the Ministry of …
The Director of the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia, Uroš Urbanija, responded to a letter from trade unionist Branimir Štrukelj, dated the 30th of August 2022. Urbanija wrote that it is unacceptable that a prominent politician of the Left party (Levica) was trying to violate the law by using his trade union to put public …
Uroš Urbanija, the former director of the Government Communication Office, was endorsed by the RTV Slovenija programme council for appointment as TV Slovenija director, the TV arm of the Slovenian public broadcaster. RTV Slovenija director general Andrej Grah Whatmough will decide on his appointment after interviewing him next week. By: P.T., STA
“The Slovenian media image is becoming a mirror image of the Russian, Putinist image, and this is scary,” said former Ukom director Uroš Urbanija. Even that minimal percentage of different media is too much for Putin and obviously too much for the political top of Golob’s Gibanje Svoboda party. In the show Kdo vam laže, Uroš …
“The Supreme Court has announced in advance that Masleša will win the lawsuit. This is an unprecedented scandal. Let it be known that the old communists still control the judiciary. And worst of all, this comes from a post published by the Supreme Court itself. And they are not even embarrassed by it,” journalist Igor …
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“When will the Constitutional Court finally make a decision on the recovered/vaccinated rule? If this decree had not been temporarily suspended, our hospitals would not be facing this difficult situation today. It is horrifying that the matter of the recovered/vaccinated rule has still not been resolved. At the very least, the Constitutional Court is at …
The ordeal in question lasted for more than a year, and even after all that time, the Government Communication Office and the Slovenian Press Agency, under the leadership of Boris Veselinovič, could not negotiate a new contract. With the new acting director of the agency, Igor Kadunc, the Government Communication Office managed to do that …
