Romea.cz
27.1.2021 8:57
Recently-elected Slovak MP Milan Mazurek, a member of the fascist LSNS party, is shown here verbally assaulting an Arab family including children on the street in Bratislava in June of 2015. (PHOTO: YouTube.com)
Milan Mazurek, Milan Uhrík and Ondrej Ďurica have left the board of the fascist party in Slovakia called
ĽSNS-Kotleba ( People s Party Our Slovakia-Kotleba because party chair Marián Kotleba has used the party s statutes to change the way in which it is directed so that it now follows the leader principle , stripping them of powers while enhancing his own. Marián Kotleba has cemented himself into the chairmanship of ĽSNS in such a way that nobody will ever remove him, even if he ends up behind bars, journalist Tomáš Kyseľ has reported.
Vaccinations against COVID-19 - how is the Romani community in the Czech Republic responding?
26.1.2021 10:04
The vaccine against COVID-19 developed by Pfizer-BioNTech. (PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons, U.S. Secretary of Defense)
Registration for vaccinations against COVID-19 in the Czech Republic began on Friday, 15 January for citizens 80 years of age or older and initially featured difficulties when the system was unable to keep up with the demand to register. According to data from the state team of what is being called the Smart Quarantine system, as of 13:00 on Monday, 18 January almost half of the senior citizens aged 80 and over who do not live in retirement homes had registered.
Romea.cz
25.1.2021 7:42
Annamárie Horváthová (#95). (PHOTO: Athletic Legion Club - Moldava nad Bodvou)
When she won a local race in Slovakia two years ago, a photograph of her on the medalists tribunal went viral. Compared to the girls who came in second and third place in their running shoes, 13-year-old Annamárie Horváthová was standing in first place after running in ballerina flats. It s talent, diligence and perseverance, trainer Norbert Pecze says when asked how to best describe the young athlete. She is growing up in the miserable conditions of a Romani settlement.
After that victory she received running shoes from a sponsor and the Athletics Club in Moldava nad Bodvou noticed her talent and took her in. She was also visited by the then-President of Slovakia, Andrej Kiska, who expressed recognition of her achievement and wished her a great deal of success in school, sports and life.
Romea.cz
24.1.2021 8:16
Věra Gondolánová
After a long and difficult illness, the singer Věra Gondolánová has passed away at the age of 66. Her nephew Filip Gondolán announced the news through the Facebook social network. She has passed away after a long illness. She was as I have always known her. beautiful, proud, brave and to my mind the most talented member of our entire family, he posted.
Ms Gondolánová was born in 1954; her family is from the Brutovce community in Slovakia. At the age of 15 she began performing with her siblings Antonín, Vojtěch, František and Jiří in a family band called The Gondolán Siblings (