European Foundation for Slavic Script and Culture

Today, in many countries of the world, a spiritual holiday is celebrated - the Day of Friends.
Although all peoples at all times have revered friendship as the greatest social and moral value, they invariably considered "genuine friendship" to be extremely rare, and its flowering, as a rule, was attributed to the past, presenting it as an ideal overturned into the past.

“There are names like the sun! There are names -
Like music! Like an apple tree in bloom!
I'm talking about Pushkin: a poet,
Indeed, at any time!

A total of 40 books from the “Slovakia from above” series, published over two pandemic years, will be presented on May 7 at the air show in Piestany by the first Slovak cosmonaut Ivan Bella. As the aerial photographer and author of the book series idea Milan Paprchka informed, Bella will symbolically sprinkle the books with aviation fuel.

On May 29, 2022, the European Foundation of Slavonic Literature and Culture and the Foundation of Ukrainian Literature and Culture held a festive event "Peace to the Children!", dedicated to the International Children's Day. Its participants were children aged 6 to 12 with their parents.
International Children's Day is celebrated annually on June 1 in more than 30 countries and is one of the oldest international holidays.

On May 27, 2022, an exhibition of children's books was held at the European Foundation of Slavic Literature and Culture and in the Foundation of Ukrainian Literature and Culture, in the  Ukrainian Classroom in Bratislava, as well as an open lesson "Fiction for children: an easy way to raise a genius". To raise a smart child, it is enough to show the kids the multifaceted and colorful world of fiction, as well as instill a love of reading. The love of reading will expand the horizons of the child, develop his imagination and help determine his life goals.

Today, May 8, 2022, President Zuzana Chaputova marked the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II and Victory Day over fascism by laying wreaths at the cemeteries in Zvolen, where fallen Soviet and Romanian soldiers are buried.