#banska

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Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia (by Dusan)

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Banská Bystrica Czechoslovakia

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Population: 9,478

The submitter commented, “I think if you want to visit Slovakia and only have time for one place, it should be this :)”

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Laura Frlickova 🇸🇰

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Sequoia tree.

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Ilinden / Makedonium – A Monument Dedicated To The Fighters And Revolutionaries Who Participated In The Ilinden Uprising Of 1903

Revitalizing The Heritage Of Socialist Modernism: BACU’s Online Initiative To Protect Central And Eastern European Architecture

Preserving the monumental yet decaying structures of central and eastern Europe erected between 1955-91 is the mission of the online initiative, Socialist Modernism, created by the Bureau for Art and Urban Research (BACU). With an aim to revitalize this heritage, BACU believes in the significance of these elements which managed to defy some of the ideological requirements of their time, giving the urban space a distinct flavor characteristic of the socialist period.

Palace Of Weddings, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Built In 1987

One Of The Two Halls Of Parting, Memory Park (Kyiv/Kiev) Ukraine. Built 1968–1981

Eastern Gate Of Belgrade, Rudo Buildings, (Istočne Kapije) Belgrade, Serbia, Built In 1976, Architect: Vera Ćirković Engineer: Milutin Jerotijević

Museum Of The Slovak National Uprising, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, Built In 1969

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Tidal Events

Mária Ferenčuhová

Simply they’ve come out of the woods. The whole herd slowly setting out for the city, Their hooves knocking on the tarmac: cars pull over, they pour from the roads.

Roebuck and doe have headed to the houses, kneeling in front of gates, folding their bodies on lawns, pavements, roadway and crossroads. They bleat monotonously, yet turn their heads away, if someone wants to stroke them.

Every day the new and new kind lose their shyness. They approach us, look us in the eye, lead us to the sea.

Without fear together we stop to breathe.

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1 Kasım 2023 Slavia Banska Bystrica Beşiktaş Maçı

*Dukla Spor Salonu'nda saat 20:00'de başlayacak olan Kadınlar EuroCup Normal Sezon E Grubu dördüncü maçı. Zirvenin ortağı temsilcimiz için Slovakya'da galibiyet beklediğimiz mücadele. İyi sonucu alıp dönelim. Başarılar Kartal.

*FIBA YouTube kanalından naklen yayınlanacak olan maç.

*İlk çeyrek 26-8'le bizim lehimize. Çok net bir başlangıç yaptı temsilcimiz. Mesajı da vermiş olduk.

*İçeriye 45-17 sonucuyla gidiyoruz. Slovakya temsilcisi yine tek hanede kaldı. Beşiktaş erkenden kolayladı.

*Üçüncü periyodun bitimiyle durumu 66-32'ye taşıdık. Arayı büyütmeyi ve geri sayımı sürdürüyoruz.

*87-43 galip geldi Kara Kartal ve 3. galibiyetini aldı. Yine rahat bir periyot oyunu vardı. Güzel bir akşam geride kalıyor. Tebrik ederiz. Slavia Banska Bystrica'da Snezana Bogicevic 14, Natalia Martiskova 9 sayı bulabildi. Beşiktaş'ta ise Jovana Nogic 22 sayı ile oynadı. Yueru Li 14 sayı - 10 ribaund ile ikili çifte yaptı.

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Banska: I Skitter. It's one of my Awesome Porcupine Abilities

Mushi: I thought you were a squirrel.

Stan: ...She's a Possum.

Banska: Pretty sure I'm a Lagomorph

Mushi: Rat seems right to me.

Stan: *points at Syfon* what's that

Banska: Bat.

Mushi: Dat'sa Bat.

Stan: *pulls up a mirror, pointing it at Mushi* and what is she?

Banska: Galaxy Dragon.

Mushi: Squishy.

Stan: *Points the mirror at Banska* and what is she?

Mushi, not even looking: Hampter

Banska: *Stares intently for several seconds* That is... A girl!

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Banska Bystrica, Slovakia (by Werner Funk)

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Banská Bystrica Czechoslovakia

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Slovak PM discharged from hospital

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who is recovering from injuries sustained in an assassination attempt this month, has been discharged from hospital to undergo treatment at home, Bloomberg reports.

Fico needs “physical and long-term rehabilitation,” the hospital in the central Slovak city of Banska Bystrica said in a statement posted on Facebook on Friday. He was moved to his home in the capital Bratislava.

The 59-year-old Slovak leader was shot four times at close range by an intruder on May 15 after a government meeting in Handlova, northeast of Bratislava. Police arrested the 71-year-old suspect at the scene, with authorities deeming it politically motivated – the first such assassination attempt on a European leader in more than two decades.

Meanwhile, the shooting sent shockwaves across Europe and heightened tensions in one of the region’s most politically polarised countries. Fico’s allies accused the opposition and the media of inciting hostility against the Slovak prime minister. The opposition in turn warned the government not to use the attack to deflect criticism.

Despite its popularity in Slovakia, Fico’s administration faces criticism for rewriting the penal code to weaken anti-corruption tools and seeking to take control of the country’s public television and radio.

The attacker was taken into custody pending trial and also charged with attempted murder. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in prison or life imprisonment. Read more HERE

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A man has been charged with the attempted murder of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico after the politician was seriously hurt in a shooting attack.

The alleged assailant has not been formally named, but Slovak reports have widely identified him as a 71-year-old from the town of Levice.

Reports say he could face up to life in prison.

Mr Fico, 59, is in a serious but stable condition after being shot several times in what colleagues described as a politically motivated attack.

Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok told a news conference on Thursday that the suspect had acted alone and that he had previously taken part in anti-government protests.

"This is a lone wolf whose actions were accelerated after the presidential election since he was dissatisfied with its outcome," he said.

Peter Pellegrini, a populist and ally of Robert Fico, won April's vote.

Shot five times at close range

It was in broad daylight on Wednesday that Mr Fico, surrounded by a crowd of supporters, was shot at close range.

A gunman fired five times, hitting the prime minister in the stomach and arm.

The attack took Mr Fico's security detail completely by surprise. Footage showed several officers bundling the wounded PM into a car, before driving away at high speed, while the others detained the suspect.

Mr Fico was rushed to a nearby hospital in an air ambulance, with injuries described as life-threatening.

He was then transferred to another facility in Banska Bystrica, east of Handlova, where surgeons and trauma teams worked through the night to stabilise him.

On Thursday, the hospital director told a news conference that Mr Fico's condition was stable, but "truly very serious", and he had been moved to an intensive care unit.

Mr Pellegrini later said he had visited Mr Fico, who had been able to speak a few sentences.

"The situation is very critical and we have to give him a lot of energy and be positive," said Mr Pellegrini.

Local media reports describethe suspectas a writer and political activist.

A video being widely circulated on Slovak media purports to feature him.

In the footage, the man says he disagrees with government policy and its stance towards state media. The BBC has neither verified if the person in the video is the perpetrator who was detained at the scene, nor the circumstances under which it was filmed.

Politically motivated attack

Several Slovak politicians called the shooting an "attack on democracy".

On Thursday, Slovakia's outgoing President Zuzana Caputova appealed for calm and invited all party leaders to a meeting to discuss political tension.

Meanwhile, Slovak President-elect Peter Pellegrini called on all parties to suspend campaigning before European parliament elections scheduled for early June.

Mr Fico is a divisive figure at home for his calls to end military aid to Ukraine and sanctions on Russia.

The shooting came on the day parliament began discussing the government's proposal to abolish Slovakia's public broadcaster RTVS.

Thousands of Slovaks have protested against the proposed reform of the public broadcaster in recent weeks. However, a planned opposition-led demonstration was called off on Wednesday as news of the shooting emerged.

In his interview with the BBC, Deputy Prime Minister Taraba blamed "false narratives" by opposition parties in Slovakia for the shooting.

"Our prime minister several times mentioned in the past that he was afraid that this would happen," Mr Taraba said in another interview with the BBC's World Tonight programme.

And Interior Minister Mr Estok accused the media of contributing to the climate that led to the 59-year-old's shooting, telling a news conference: "Many of you were those who were sowing this hatred."

Pavol Strba, a foreign affairs correspondent for the Slovakian newspaper Dennik N, told the BBC News Channel that "the current governing coalition has painted targets on the heads of journalists, members of NGOs et cetera".

"I have some information that some of the newsrooms in Slovakia are being patrolled by police right now," he said.

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Banska Bystrica slowakia

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Banska Stiavnica

by Martin Babarik, Slovakia

Chromatic Photography Awards 2023