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Bratislava, January 21 (TASR) - The Slovak opposition is preparing a 'Maidan' coup and will attempt to initiate early elections in collaboration with foreign actors, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) averred at a joint press briefing with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Bratislava on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/21661070 Bratislava, January 21 (TASR) - Slovakia is also finding support from Hungary in its search for gas supply options from the southern direction via the TurkStream pipeline, Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) said following his meeting with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban in Bratislava on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/21660645 Bratislava, January 21 (TASR) - Spontaneous, friendly and content-rich, such was according to Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) his Tuesday meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Bratislava. https://etasr.sk/article/21660723 Bratislava, January 21 (TASR) - President Peter Pellegrini will visit the headquarters of the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) on Wednesday (January 22) in order to get acquainted with all the relevant information in connection with the report that was the subject of the debate in Parliament on Tuesday, TASR was told by the President Office's communications department on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/21660716 Bratislava, January 21 (TASR) - Independent MP Rudolf Huliak has rejected an offer to be a House vice-chair, TASR was told on Tuesday by Slovak National Party (SNS) leader Andrej Danko, who wanted to leave this post to him. https://etasr.sk/article/21660441 Bratislava, January 21 (TASR) - The accused student who carried out the knife-attack at the secondary grammar school in the town of Spisska Stara Ves last week had threatened his classmates via text message a few days before the attack, head of the Interior Ministry's Inspection Service Office (UIS) Branislav Zurian said on Tuesday following the meeting of the House defence and security committee, adding that the police assessed the student's actions as bullying, not a criminal offence. https://etasr.sk/article/21660906 Bratislava, January 21 (TASR) - The Zilina Reginal Prosecutor's Office dropped charges of aggravated violation of duties in the governance of entrusted property against ex-finance minister Jan Pociatek in the Lemikon case, due to shorter statutes of limitations introduced by last year's Penal Code amendment, Zilina Prosecutor's Office spokesperson Martin Kokles confirmed to TASR on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/21661073 Brussels, January 21 (TASR-correspondent) - Future negotiations between the European Commission (EC) and the new US administration must not go against the interests of European Union (EU) member states, Slovak Finance Minister Ladislav Kamenicky (Smer-SD) said on Tuesday in Brussels after meetings of eurozone and EU finance ministers. https://etasr.sk/article/21660998 Bratislava, January 21 (TASR) - The Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) has obtained serious information about long-term activities aimed at destabilising the Slovak Republic, SIS spokesperson Katarina Nemova told TASR on Tuesday, adding that it has provided it to the recipients by law and has given its consent to inform MPs orally to such an extent that the purpose of the criminal proceedings is not thwarted. https://etasr.sk/article/21660516 Bratislava, January 21 (TASR) - House Vice-chair Peter Ziga (Voice-SD), who is tasked with heading Parliament on a temporary basis, ended on Tuesday afternoon a special House session on the no-confidence motion in the government without Parliament even voting on the opposition's proposal, as the submitters took it back. https://etasr.sk/article/21660503 Bratislava, January 21 (TASR) - A commemorative concert is set to be held in Bratislava on Tuesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the Central Association of Jewish Religious Communities (UZZNO) in Slovakia told TASR on the same day, adding that eight candles will be symbolically lit during the concert. https://etasr.sk/article/21660872 Nova Bana, January 21 (TASR) - Pohronske Museum in Nova Bana (Banska Bystrica region) will hold a lecture on the events of the so-called Bloody Sunday of January 1945, when Nazi troops murdered 148 inhabitants of Ostry Grun and Klak villages and burned down both villages. https://etasr.sk/article/21661072 Notice: If you click on the link or copy it into the search window, the browser will display the full text of the message in the new e-TASR client zone. If you have any questions, please contact obchod@tasr.sk. am