The Hussite flag was hoisted at Prague Castle on Friday June, 5th to mark
the 600th anniversary of the burning at stake of the Czech reformer priest
Jan Hus. The event was attended by President Miloš Zeman and the patriarch
A man has been arrested in Slovakia over the attempted murder and rape of an 18-year-old woman near a bus stop in Leeds in March. The 21-year-old Slovakian was held in Kosice in the east of the country and will he kept in custody while British authorities seeks his extradition.
STORY: Hunters from nine European countries gathered in Belarus for the 17th European deer calling championship. The contest was taking place at "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" national park southwest of the capital Minsk.
Moscow (June 1) – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Miroslav Lajčák met with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Monday evening (June 1).
The Russian television lies in a documentary about the invasion of
Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, President Miloš Zeman
said at a press conference at the end of his visit to South Bohemia on
NATO member Slovakia said it wants Russia to modernize its S-300 air defense systems and old Mi-17 military helicopters, news agency TASS reported Tuesday.
I've just come back from a couple of weeks in East-Central Europe, countries that were communist satellites of the old Soviet Union until a quarter of a century ago.
The Czech and Slovak governments have accused Russia of rewriting history after Russian state TV broadcast a documentary about the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. The programme, aired on 23 May, argued the invasion was aimed at preventing a military coup backed by the West.
A waitress who gave up her British-born baby changed her mind six months later when she saw newspaper photos of her son being deported to his native Slovakia.
