Katarina Richterova

D-Day for every Slovak high school pupil: you walk into a classroom, up to a table with a dark green cloth and teachers sitting behind it. This is how Slovak pupils are…

It's taken a little time but Reality Television has reached Slovakia. In fact wherever you go on public transport, in offices and bars, everyone seems to be talking about…

At the end of November last year, a large part of Slovakia's biggest and best known National Park was damaged by a strong wind storm. The park attracts hundreds of…

On November 19th the beautiful High Tatra Mountains in Slovakia experienced their greatest natural disaster in the last 100 years. Wind-speeds of more than 170 km per hour…

Picture this situation. You are in a hurry to leave town for a business trip. You arrive at the train station just in time to buy a ticket. You could still make it if …

Slovakia has approximately 5 million inhabitants. There are another 2 million 000 Slovaks living outside the country. Many feared that this number would even increase…

There was great joy, cheers, mass singing, but also disappointment and tears over Slovakia's lost battle for bronze at the World Ice Hockey Championship in Prague last…

Last week Slovaks elected their next president. The winner Ivan Gasparovic beat his rival Vladimir Meciar by almost 20 percent. He has been in politics for more than 13…

Since 1998, the European Commission has been running a communication offensive to tell Slovak's what to expect when they're in the EU. But now that enlargement is just…

A dispute over an anti-discrimination law - or rather the lack of one - is keeping politicians busy in Slovakia. European Parliament officials have warned Slovakia and…