The narrow defeat of a populist-nationalist coalition, and in particular the advance of a party advocating Slovak-Hungarian collaboration, could open Slovakia to a better era, says Juliana Sokolova.
The presidential election in Slovakia, which reaches its decisive second round on 4 April 2009, finds people still asking themselves a question that has persisted since independence in January 1993:
The verb podiet'sa is not a word or a concept that somehow captures the spirit of the nation. It does not convey a unique Slovak characteristic. Yet its
