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In April, the Slovak ambassador to Russia Ľubomír Rehák made short visits to the important Russian regional centres of Volgograd and Yekaterinburg.

During his visit to the northern metropolis on 12-14 March 2024, Ambassador Ľubomír Rehák laid flowers in the museum of the Pulkovo Observatory under the portrait of the famous astronomer Milan Rastislav Štefánik, who visited this observatory in December 1906 on his way to an expedition in Turkestan. The portrait of the multitalented Slovak and co-founder of Czechoslovakia was dedicated to the observatory by the former President of Slovakia, Rudolf Schuster.

Slovak Ambassador to Moscow Ľubomír Rehák visited Omsk on March 10, 2024. This city in the west of Siberia is connected with the history of the Czecho-Slovak legionnaires on their return to the free homeland through the Far East at the end of the First World War. 

Another meeting of the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Juraj Blanár, with the Russian Ambassador to Slovakia, Igor Bratchikov, took place today (21 December 2023).

On 13 November 2023, the Government of the Slovak Republic approved its manifesto.

On All Souls Day, November 2, 2023, Slovak Ambassador to Russia Ľubomír Rehák laid flowers at the Czechoslovak Legionnaires' Memorial in Chelyabinsk. The representative of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia in Moscow, Archimandrite Serafim (Shemiatovsky) and the secretary of the Chelyabinsk Eparchy Archpriest Igor Shestakov prayed the Lity - Orthodox memorial service for the deceased at the cenotaph.

On Monday (2 October 2023) the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic of the Slovak Republic (MFEA SR) summoned a representative of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Slovakia due to the statements made by the director of Russia's foreign intelligence service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, which were published during the pre-election moratorium on the eve of the parliamentary elections in Slovakia.

On September 15, a solemn Eucharistic service in the Moscow Catholic Cathedral was dedicated to the Feast of the Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows, who is also the Patron-Saint of Slovakia.

During the summer, the Slovak ambassador to Russia Ľubomír Rehák visited several places connected with the history of Czechoslovak legionnaires in Russia at the end of the First World War. The legions that were evacuated from the eastern front of the First World War to the newly formed Czechoslovakia along the Trans-Siberian railway were drawn into the Russian civil war on side of the legal government, which did not agree with the Bolsheviks coup. Their military successes and effective protection of the territory along the Trans-Siberian highway against Bolshevik attacks caused a negative perception of the legions, the so-called "White Czechs" by the public and extensive misinformation about them in Soviet and subsequently Russian historiography. Commemorating the fallen fighters for peace and freedom is an important historical memento even in today's times, when war is again taking place in Europe.

Concert. to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Slovak diplomacy – a gala event of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic took place in the Winter Riding Hall of Bratislava Castle on Thursday, 29 June 2023.

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