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Charter 77 was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members and architects were Jiří Němec, Václav Benda, Ladislav Hejdánek, Václav Havel, Jan Patočka, Zdeněk Mlynář, Jiří Hájek, Martin Palouš, Pavel Kohout, and Ladislav Lis. Spreading the text of the document was considered a political crime by the Czechoslovak government. After the 1989 Velvet Revolution, many of the members of the initiative played important roles in Czech and Slovak politics.
MFK Dukla Banská Bystrica is a Slovak professional football club from the town of Banská Bystrica. The club plays at the SNP Stadium. After being relegated from the Slovak 2. liga in 2017, they had financial problems.
The Slovak National Party is an ultranationalist political party in Slovakia. The party characterizes itself as a nationalist party based on both social and European Christian values.
Slovak Information Service is an intelligence agency of the government of Slovakia. It was established on February 15, 1993, as a descendant of the Federálna bezpečnostná informačná služba.
The Slovak women's national under 18 ice hockey team is the national under-18 ice hockey team of Slovakia. The team represents Slovakia at the International Ice Hockey Federation's Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship.
Andrej Martin is a Slovak professional tennis player. He achieved his career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 93 in February 2020 and a doubles ranking of world No. 69 on 11 July 2016.
Ján Kobezda was a Slovak professional ice hockey player who played with HC Slovan Bratislava in the Slovak Extraliga.
Dukla Banská Bystrica is a Continental cycling team founded in 2004. It is based in Slovakia and it participates in UCI Continental Circuits races. Peter Sagan and Peter Velits were also part of the team.
Andrej Babiš is a Czech businessman and politician who served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 2017 to 2021. He previously served as the Minister of Finance and deputy prime minister from 2014 to 2017. Babiš has been the founding leader of the political party ANO 2011 since 2012.
Andrej Kiska is a Slovak politician, entrepreneur, writer and philanthropist who served as the fourth president of Slovakia from 2014 to 2019. He ran as an independent candidate in the 2014 presidential election in which he was elected to the presidency in the second round of voting over Prime Minister Robert Fico. Kiska declined to run for a second term in 2019. He has written two books about happiness, success, and his life.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Slovakia.
Peter Pellegrini is a Slovak politician who is serving as the sixth president of Slovakia since 2024. He previously served as prime minister of Slovakia from 2018 to 2020.
Andrej Danko is a Slovak politician who was the speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic from 2016 to 2020 and Chairman of the nationalist Slovak National Party since 2012.
Events in the year 2018 in Slovakia.
Ján Kuciak was a Slovak investigative journalist. Kuciak worked as a reporter for the news website Aktuality.sk and focused mainly on investigating tax fraud of several businessmen with connections to top-level Slovak politicians. He and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, were assassinated on 21 February 2018 in their home in Veľká Mača, Galanta District, Slovakia.
Danko is a surname. Literally it is a diminutive of Daniel in some Slavic languages. Notable people with this surname include:
Martina Lubyová was a Slovak economist and politician. She served as Slovakia's minister of education, science, research, and sport between 2017 and 2020. She was a member of the Slovak National Party.
Etela Božena Mačingová was a Slovak writer, an author of books for children and young adults.
Rozália Danková, also known as Sister Stela, was a Catholic nun, member of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and writer, known for documenting prosecution of Christians in communist Czechoslovakia.