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ISSN 1581-4866
Issue #44
October 29, 2002
weekly report

editorial
Before and After

did you know...
Reformation Day in Slovenia

weekly report
Few Domestic Buyers Interested in NLB

Slovenia's Profile Low among EU Citizens

Five Financial Memoranda Signed

Statisticians Meet in Ljubljana

MPs Conclude a Busy Session

Austria Lifts Defensive Iron Curtain off the Border

35th Chess Olympiad Declared Open

Krka Opens New R&D Centre

Slovenia Places 14th in Press Freedom Index

Conference Discusses Anti-Semitism in Balkans

Over 4,500 Dead Birds Seized by Customs

cover story
Enlargement on Track: Slovenia Big Step Closer to EU

interview
Chess Player Krivec: Coffee for Focus

Slovenia's partners
Continuously Confounded Countries

what makes the news
Nine Nominees Running for President

Bears Bound in Ljubljana Stock Exchange

Slovenj Gradec - Messenger of Peace

13th LIFFe - Traditional, Yet not Traditionalistic

what's in the press
The Secret of Male Chess Players

Ljubljanica Attracts Treasure Hunters

First Slovenian to Cross Greenland on Skis

Slovenians Can Take Care of Caves

letter from abroad
Signpost to Europe

what's going on

where to go

History

Austria Lifts Defensive Iron Curtain off the Border

Bleiburg, Oct. 23

The Austrian armed forces started removing the last piece of heavy artillery from the Austrian-Slovenian border. A cannon with a range of 28 kilometres was deployed at a hidden location on Haberberg mountain, near the Slovenian border, some time during the 1970s. The artillery on the mountain was said to have covered the entire Slovenian border with the Austrian Carinthia, thus setting up a military "Iron Curtain". As the information of the Austrian armed forces indicates, the nine-tonne cannon from the Cold War was removed because it has become old and obsolete. Moreover, the political situation in Europe has changed and the cannon will find its place in a military museum in Vienna.