Stories about Slovenia from October, 2007
The Balkans: The Language Issue
Balkan Baby writes about the “language issue” in the Balkans: “What language do we speak when we are in the countries that once made up Yugoslavia? In Slovenia and Macedonia...
Slovenia: Media Business
Sleeping With Pengovsky writes about recent developments in Slovenian media business.
Slovenia: Lipizzaner; MojVideo
The Glory of Carniola writes about Slovenian horses in American movies – and about a Slovenian video-sharing website, MojVideo.
Slovenia: the 15th Greenest Place in the World
Piran Cafe reports on Slovenia's ranking among the world's greenest places (#15), and Jennifer Dorroh writes about the beautiful nature of Šmarna Gora, a Ljubljana suburb.
Slovenia: Presidential Election
Quick links on Slovenia's presidential election: Sleeping With Pengovsky writes about what's wrong with the proposed electronic voting, explains why everyone should vote, and follows the results; Piran Cafe explains...
Slovenia: Lojze Podobnik
TOL's Romantic writes about Lojze Podobnik, a Slovenian author writing on the Romani culture and way of life.
Central & Eastern Europe: “Human Capital”
Edward Lucas writes about “a lack of brainpower” in Eastern and Central Europe.
Slovenia: Gorazd Čamernik's Death
Sleeping With Pengovsky reports on the recent killing of young man by a bouncer at one of Ljubljana's clubs and the government's response to the tragedy.
Slovenia: “Polhanje!”
Piran Café tries some polh, or the fat dormouse, “a species fairly common from Spain to western Russia. They look like small gray squirrels, but with big dark sexy eyes...
Slovenia: “S'LOVELY”
Slovenia is “S'LOVELY” – or is it? A discussion on “rebranding” the country took place at The Glory of Carniola.
