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From right, Defense Ministers of Poland Mariusz Blaszczak, of Slovakia Jaroslav Nad and of Czech Republic Jana Cernochova answer questions to media after signing an air policing treaty at an airshow in Malacky, Slovakia, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Poland and Czech Republic signed an agreement promising to protect Slovak airspace as Slovakia retires its old Soviet-mad MiG-29 jets at the end of this month. That protection is meant to last until Slovakia receives new F-16s from the United States, something expected in 2024. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Poles, Czechs vow to protect Slovak airspace as MiGs retired

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Istvan Szekeres, engineer of the Hungarian Oil and Gas Company (MOL) checks the receiving area of the Druzhba oil pipeline in the country's largest oil refinery in Szazhalombata, south of Budapest, Hungary, Jan. 9, 2007. Several countries in Europe dependent on Russian energy suffered another blow with confirmation Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, that oil shipments have stopped through a critical pipeline. Russian state pipeline operator Transneft said it halted shipments through the southern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline, which flows through Ukraine to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)

Russian oil shipments to central Europe expected to resume

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First lady Jill Biden gets a hug from Ukrainian refugee Yulie Kutocha, 7, as her mother Victorie Kutocha, watches at right, during a visit to a city-run refugee center in Kosice, Slovakia, Sunday, May 8, 2022. The center is a place for Ukrainian refugees to rest and prepare for onward travel. Biden will then travel to the Slovak border with Ukraine to meet with refugees. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Jill Biden to Ukrainian mom: Russia war ‘hard to understand’

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

Irpin Territorial Defence and Ukrainian Army soldiers hold flowers to be placed on the graves of comrades fallen during the Russian occupation, at the cemetery of Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Sunday, May 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Live updates l TASS: more than 1M Ukrainians taken to Russia

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

United States' Aaron Ness (42) leaves the ice as Slovakia players celebrate behind him after a men's quarterfinal hockey game at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Beijing. Slovakia won 3-2 in a shoot-out. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

U.S. upset by Slovakia, eliminated from Olympics with Canada

By Stephen Whyno - Associated Press

Slovakian Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok attends a news briefing following talks with his counterparts from Ukraine, Austria and Czech in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. (Valentyn Ogirenko/ Pool Photo via AP)

Slovakia OKs defense treaty with U.S. amid growing tensions in Eastern Europe

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE -Slovak President Zuzana Caputova wears a face mask to protect from Coronavirus at the President palace in Bratislava, on Nov. 9, 2021. Slovakia’s leaders have been proposing a national lockdown as hospitals across the European Union country are hitting their limits amid a record surge of coronavirus infections and the government is set to discuss a lockdown plan for all, the vaccinated and unvaccinated, on its session on Wednesday. “It’s an unpopular measure, but absolutely unavoidable,” President Zuzana Caputova said after visiting a major clinic in the capital on Tuesday. Caputova said what she could see in Bratislava University Hospital “was tragic, was horrible.” “Experts are clear,” she said. “It’s necessary to restrict people’s mobility, we need a lockdown.” (Martin Baumann/TASR via AP)

Slovakia proposes lockdown amid record infection surge

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Pope Francis waves to faithful holding Vatican flags as he arrives on his pope-mobile to celebrate a Byzantine rite Mass at Mestska sportova hala Square, in Presov, Slovakia, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. Pope Francis is on a four-day pilgrimage to Hungary and Slovakia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Pope visit a sign of inclusion for Slovakia’s excluded Roma

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis and Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova, right, attend a welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. Francis is on a four-day visit to Central Europe, in Hungary and Slovakia, in his first big international outing since undergoing intestinal surgery in July. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis in Slovakia to honor Holocaust dead on Day 2 of tour

By Nicole Winfield and Karel Janicek - Associated Press

Birds fly above the Roma settlement at the Lunik IX quarter of Slovakia's second largest city of Kosice, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. Pope Francis will make his visit to the impoverished Roma community in Slovakia one of the highlights of his pilgrimage to &quot;the heart of Europe.&quot; Francis will be the first pontiff to meet the most socially excluded minority group in that Central European country. (AP Photo/Peter Lazar)

Pope Francis to visit impoverished Roma quarter in Slovakia

By Karel Janicek - Associated Press

Slovakia eyes using Russia’s Sputnik V; waits for results

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Hungary to assist Slovakia in inspection of Russian vaccine

By JUSTIN SPIKE - Associated Press

Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine arrives at Kosice Airport, Slovakia, Monday March 1, 2021. Hard-hit Slovakia signed a deal to acquire 2 million dozes of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. The country's prime minister says Slovakia will get one million shots in next two months while another million will arrive in May and June. (Frantisek Ivan/TASR via AP)

Head of Slovakia party resigns over crisis around Sputnik V

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FILE - In this Monday March 1, 2021 file photo, Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic, right, and Health Minister Marek Krajci at Kosice Airport, Slovakia, as Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine arrives. Two parties in Slovakia’s ruling coalition called on the conservative prime minister to resign to open the way for a reconstruction of the government amid a political crisis triggered by a secret deal to buy Russia's coronavirus vaccine. (Frantisek Ivan/TASR via AP, File)

Allies call on Slovak leader to resign over Russian vaccine

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic, right, and Health Minister Marek Krajci at Kosice Airport, Slovakia, Monday March 1, 2021, as Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine arrives. Hard-hit Slovakia signed a deal to acquire 2 million dozes of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. The country's prime minister says Slovakia will get one million shots in next two months while another million will arrive in May and June. (Frantisek Ivan/TASR via AP)

Slovakia’s health minister resigns to end political crisis

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic, right, and Health Minister Marek Krajci at Kosice Airport, Slovakia, Monday March 1, 2021, as Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine arrives. Hard-hit Slovakia signed a deal to acquire 2 million dozes of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. The country's prime minister says Slovakia will get one million shots in next two months while another million will arrive in May and June. (Frantisek Ivan/TASR via AP)

Russian Sputnik V vaccine splits Slovakia ruling coalition

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine arrives at Kosice Airport, Slovakia, Monday March 1, 2021. Hard-hit Slovakia signed a deal to acquire 2 million dozes of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. The country's prime minister says Slovakia will get one million shots in next two months while another million will arrive in May and June. (Frantisek Ivan/TASR via AP)

Slovakia signs deal to acquire 2 million doses of Sputnik V

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

A teacher receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from a health worker during vaccination of pedagogical staff at the vaccination center in Kosice, Slovakia, on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. (Frantisek Ivan/TASR via AP)

Slovakia sees virus deaths soar, blames variant found in UK

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

Poland's President Andrzej Duda touches ellbows with the Czech President Milos Zeman to greet him for for a two-day summit with the presidents of Hungary and The Czech Republic marking 30 years of the Visegrad Group, an informal body of political and economic cooperation in the region, at the presidential residence in the Hel Peninsula, Poland, on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021.(Jakub Szymczuk / KPRP via AP )

Central Europe presidents mark 30 years of Visegrad Group

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The youngest nephew of Azime Ali Topchu, 48, a Bulgarian Roma woman, peers from behind a curtain in a village on the outskirts of Burgas, Bulgaria, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. Human rights activists and experts say local officials in several countries with significant Roma populations have used the pandemic to unlawfully target the minority group, which is Europe's largest and has faced centuries of severe discrimination. In Bulgaria, Roma communities were sprayed with disinfectant from crop dusters this spring as coronavirus cases surged in the country. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Some European officials use virus as a cover to target Roma

By MARIA CHENG and TEODORA BARZAKOVA - Associated Press