he New York Times broke tradition yesterday and published an article about Slovakia without a picture of a horse and cart: A history of Slovakia according to The New York Times Slovakia 2009 Slovakia 2011 The article in question starts with a nice reference to a recent ad for Zlaty Bazant which contains the line “Wanting [...]

Today’s SME reports “Ministry: Representatives of minorities supported amendment on the state language (http://www.sme.sk/c/4994369/ministerstvo-predstavitelia-mensin-podporili-novelu-o-statnom-jazyku.html).  We learn in the article that: Predstavitelia chorvátskej, rusínskej, nemeckej, bulharskej, poľskej a ruskej menšiny na dnešnom zasadnutí Rady vlády SR pre národnostné menšiny a etnické skupiny vyjadrili podporné stanovisko k prijatej novele zákona o štátnom jazyku. Which translates roughly as: [...]