Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, used a hastily organised party event in Nitra on Monday to revive long-running ...

Around 50,000 people filled Bratislava’s Námestie slobody, joining tens of thousands elsewhere to mark 17 November and to ...

A modest concrete block with hundreds of bronze footprints stands on Freedom Square, marking the protests that helped bring down totalitarian rule.

Slovakia’s Russia-friendly MEP Ľuboš Blaha has marked 17 November — the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution — not with ...

In 1980s Bratislava, Tomáš Petřivý set a washbowl and soap at the Palace of Justice, a silent charge against the regime’s ...

Branislav Tvarožek, a wartime partisan nearing 100, was made to stand in heavy rain while dignitaries and tight security ...

A small village in the east of the country invites visitors to wander through restored marshes and learn about the importance ...

Dohovič took part in the anti-communist resistance. In 1944, he helped his father, a Greek Catholic priest, evade persecution ...

Ratings agency cites deepening deficits, heavy automotive exposure and weak external demand, but says eurozone membership and ongoing consolidation support stability.

What looked like a sudden uprising was the culmination of civic defiance, underground networks and a widening gap between the rulers and the ruled.

The then foreign minister and UN General Assembly president directly communicated with the sexual predator.  In 2016, he came ...

Slovakia commemorates the events of November ’89 each year largely on a symbolic level. Yet their real impact on living ...