Every year Ljubljana comes to life when dancers, actors and other performerms take over the streets for 4 days. Shows are free and anyone can stop by and watch. I attended ballet dance show this year and it was very...
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Robovox arrived to Ljubljana to give people a voice. I heard that it will come to Ljubljana but still seeing a 8m high robot is quite impressive." RoboVox is a large (8m high) interactive public sound installation by...
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President Bush is making his last visit to Europe today, starting with an EU summit in Slovenia. Already the two powers have hammered out a warning to Iran."US President George W Bush is holding talks with EU leaders...
" A FOUR-year-old American girl shot herself in the chest after grabbing a gun from her grandmother's handbag while on a trip to the local supermarket.The girl was critically injured in the incident overnight, which happened when she grabbed the gun while sitting in a...
Ljubljana was bursting with life on Saturday 5 May when around 30.000 people participated traditional "Path around Ljubljana" march. The march along the route of the fortified boundary of occupied Ljubljana takes...
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Finally we see drops in apartment prices hopefully rents will go down too so I'll stop thinking about moving to New York to save some money."While the prices of one-bedroom flats continued to rise in Ljubljana in the...
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Though I like everything that can make my travels smoother and faster I think there are 2 bigger problems. First is security control which in my experience takes a lot longer than simple passport control and the...
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According to organizers there were around 35.000 people on a first all European union protest in Ljubljana. Aims of the protest was to bring the increasing differences in wages and profits, as well as the falling...
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"The Ljubljana City Museum is showcasing an exhibition of sculpted dresses by top Italian fashion designer Roberto Capucci. The highlight among some 40 robes on display are dresses that were featured at the Venice...
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Slovenia is taking over presidency of EU and we are all a bit curious and worried what this will bring to our day to day lives. Collaps of traffic system? Hordes of EU officials in our regular caffees? Or maybe this...
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After a big victory in second round of elections against Lojze Peterle, Danilo Türk is now officially our new president."Danilo Türk was sworn in as president at a ceremonial session of the National Assembly on 22 December, becoming the third head of state since Slovenia...
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HIV-1 virus is one of the most difficult targets for therapy because it hijacks the cells of our immune system and particularly because the virus mutates rapidly, making it drug resistant. Up to 20% of...
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"11.11.2007
By STA
Slovenian voters have overwhelmingly elected former senior UN
diplomat Danilo Tuerk the new president of Slovenia. Tuerk (55)
received more than two-thirds of the vote against seasoned campaigner
Lojze Peterle in the run-off for the...
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With its now traditional marathon, Ljubljana has joined other cities around the world where the 42-kilometre race is not only one of its main sporting events but also one of its major social occasions.
The 12th...
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"Conservative Faces Runoff in Slovenia
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — A conservative former prime minister won the most votes in Slovenia's tight presidential elections Sunday, but fell far short of the majority needed...
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