“Silence of the mainstream media regarding the Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković and the pharmacist case says a lot about the situation in the Slovenian media space. This is not journalism, but rather doing political favours for corrupt politicians,” The Association of Journalists and Publicists (Združenje novinarjev in publicistov – ZNP) recently wrote. Namely, last week,
Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković recently attacked the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anže Logar, as the latter did not extend the validity of Janković’s diplomatic passport, even though mayors are not automatically entitled to one by law. This was a privilege that Janković acquired during the rule of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia party. Meanwhile, Janković
“Receiving decoration from an international criminal like Vladimir Putin, not only because of Ukraine but also because of his previous work for the KGB and at least 250 people he has on his conscience from the time he has been president, is a difficult moral issue,” historian Dr Stane Granda believes, who added that each
The District Court in Ljubljana acquitted the Mayor of the City of Ljubljana, Zoran Janković, and his two sons, Damjan and Jure, of charges of allegedly failing to fulfil obligations of a financial nature in connection with the sale of the Mercator company shares. Zoran Janković, the visible face of the transitional left and the
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One thing that we should not overlook in the scandal that has recently shaken up the Slovenian judiciary – namely, part of the allegations against Zoran Janković in the trial in the Stožice case became time-barred before the trial had even begun – is the family-prosecution-municipality background which was revealed by the web application of
On the day of the national holiday, when a protest took place in Ljubljana at the same time, many were upset by the poles placed in front of the Parliament. RTV journalist Boris Vasev even came up with the idea that they were intended to hang white traitors, and most critics were of a similar opinion