The SNG Maribor Ballet ensemble has made a major mark internationally over the past three decades, owing in great part to its artistic director, Romanian-born choreographer Edward Clug. Apart from his ensemble, Clug has been creating productions for the world's leading ballet companies.
The Sloveni
Economy Minister Matjaž Han has been elected new leader of the Social Democrats (SD) to succeed Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon, who stepped aside amid the turmoil over a scandal surrounding the purchase of a run-down Ljubljana building meant to house several court departments.
Han, 53, narrowly beat
Music is known to have beneficial effects on living organisms and a project in which a red wine was fermented and matured to the music of Piran-born composer Giuseppe Tartini has proved just that.
Tartini 330 - Sound Experience by Sara is a multi-year project involving the Koper-based winery Vinako
Slovenia has opened an embassy in the Philippines with the relevant decree by President Nataša Pirc Musar published in the Official Gazette on 12 April.
Slovenia opened a consulate general in Manila last year to facilitate procedures for the employment of Filipino workers in Slovenia. The Philippin
The University of Trieste has honoured Italian President Sergio Mattarella and former Slovenian President Borut Pahor with honorary doctorates for their reconciliation efforts and for standing up against the narrow-mindedness of nationalist egotism.
The university in the Italian city, located near
Victoria Harrison has been appointed the UK's next ambassador to Slovenia. As the country's first blind ambassador she will succeed Tiffany Sadler in August, the UK embassy in Ljubljana announced on 12 April.
Harrison will be the first ambassador to be accompanied by a guide dog, her two-year-old l
