Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, used a hastily organised party event in Nitra on Monday to revive long-running grievances against the opposition, the media and investigators examining the 2018 ...

Slovakia’s Russia-friendly MEP Ľuboš Blaha has marked 17 November — the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution — not with commemoration but with a video filmed in Russia attacking liberal democracy ...

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

In 1980s Bratislava, Tomáš Petřivý set a washbowl and soap at the Palace of Justice, a silent charge against the regime’s unclean courts. The system crushed him; he died at 30.

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

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

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

Dohovič took part in the anti-communist resistance. In 1944, he helped his father, a Greek Catholic priest, evade persecution by the NKVD and assisted him during his escape from Ukraine to Slovakia.

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 close to becoming the first Slovak to take the top United Nations post.

Slovakia commemorates the events of November ’89 each year largely on a symbolic level. Yet their real impact on living standards becomes clearest when comparing everyday life then and now.