Thirty years old. Victoria Marinova, a journalist. From Bulgaria. She was raped and brutally killed. Why? Authorities investigate the possibility of a crime connected to her reports since her latest professional research had been related to corruption cases. She was murdered in Bulgaria, in the northern town of Ruse on the Danube river. Her body was found in a […]
The Slovak president has chosen the deputy prime minister to form a new government when Prime Minister Robert Fico resigns. Slovakia has witnessed rising frustration over the government’s response to the murder of a journalist. Amid a political crisis that has already seen two government ministers step down, Slovak President Andrej Kiska on Thursday said […]
Thousands of people protested across Slovakia on Friday against their government’s handling of a journalist’s murder and to demand an end to high-level corruption, as talks between the country’s leaders failed to end a spiralling crisis. For the second Friday running, rallies in the capital Bratislava and other towns and cities piled pressure on Slovak […]
Slovak Culture Minister Marek Madaric resigned today after the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak. Madaric, who is a member of the Smer-Social Democracy Party, told Prime Minister Robert Fico that this is his personal decision. “As the culture minister, I am not able to cope with the fact that a journalist was killed during my […]
