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Dušan Matuska is — among many other things — a Bitcoin educator and consultant. The Slovak’s dream is to educate 100 million people about Bitcoin by 2030 through talks, podcasts, webinars, workshops and even a Bitcoin education center in a far-flung destination (plans are currently under wraps). 

Paris Olympics. She was given first aid and then carried off on a stretcher.Potocka, 21, was seen wearing an oxygen mask as she was taken away for medical attention.

Hungary’s foreign minister has accused the European Union’s executive commission of orchestrating a stoppage of some Russian oil supplies into the bloc through Ukraine and warned that the dispute could lead to an energy crisis

a government plan to overhaul the country’s public broadcasting services, a move that critics say would result in the government taking full control of the media. The coalition government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico agreed on the measure on April 24. Fico, who is recovering at home from multiple wounds he suffered in an assassination attempt on May 15, said that the changes are needed, because the services are politically biased and “in conflict with the Slovak government." Thousands have repeatedly rallied in the capital, Bratislava, in protest rallies organized by the major opposition Progressive Slovakia party and others against the plan, which has been widely criticized by local journalists, the opposition, international media organizations and the European Union.

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot multiple times and taken to hospital Wednesday, according to a post on his Facebook page and government statements that called the shooting an attempted assassination.

Peter Pellegrini won Slovakia's presidential election Saturday against pro-Western diplomat Ivan Korcok. Opposition-backed Korcok conceded defeat as nearly complete results showed he had received 47 percent of the vote against former prime minister Pellegrini's 53 percent.

(Reuters) — Slovakia wants to discuss buying a Patriot missile defence system from the United States as part of longer-term plans to defend its airspace, Defence Minister Robert Kalinak said.

here. EUROPEANS HAVE it pretty good. Their cities, especially in the western half of the continent, are in general splendid places to live.

By Jan Lopatka and David W. Cerny