ITALIAN culture has been strongly represented historically in Slovakia, from ancient times on. However, time does not stand still, and apart from more classical genres and artworks, also the most contemporary streams and trends are imported.
US FILM studio The Weinstein Company finished filming on location in Slovakia for the second season of the television series Marco Polo in the Súľovské skaly mountains in Bytča district (Žilina Region) on September 9.
PSYCHIATRIST Renáta Papšová has apologised to former Supreme Court president Štefan Harabin for the statement connecting him to the deaths of two Supreme Court judges.
SLOVAK President Andrej Kiska held talks with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the Presidential Palace in Bratislava on September 10, the TASR newswire reported.
PRESIDENT Andrej Kiska received NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Bratislava September 10 to discuss the world's worsening security situation and the risks that citizens and states are facing, the TASR newswire reported.
THE ANNOUNCED expansion of the transport capacity of the Nord Stream gas pipeline is an anti-Ukrainian and anti-European project, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said after talks with his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico in Bratislava on September 10.
CULTURE Minister Marek Maďarič has cancelled the permit for exporting the bust of Pope Paul V which is believed to have been made by the famous Italian Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
AN EVENT organised by the Plea for Humanity group which included a call on the government to support refugees, along with a cultural event and a collection for refugees, will be held in Bratislava on September 12, a day when several foreign cities also held events to express solidarity with migrants.
