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Director of the Slovak National Gallery Fired

.Slovakia s culture ministry introduced on Wednesday that it has sacked Alexandra Kusu00e1, the overall supervisor of the nation s National Picture (SNG), for several supervisory failures. The ministry also claimed that because Kusu00e1 is the child of Martin Kusu00fd, the architect in charge of restoring the SNG, she had a disagreement of rate of interests.
[The reality she belongs to Martin Kusu00fd] was actually understood prior to Alexandra Kusu00e1 was actually assigned director of the SNG [in 2010], the department pointed out in a claim. The present monitoring believes that, as a result of household hookups, Alexandra Kusu00e1 need to not have actually been assigned to this post.

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Kusu00e1 s dismissal adheres to the sacking of Matej Drliu010dka, who was actually the head of Slovakia s National Movie theater, on Tuesday.
Kusu00e1, however, informed ARTnews that the lifestyle administrative agency s explanations for axing her are actually cooked up. There are actually some quite unclear causes [for my sacking], most of them are produced, I put on t also bother to review all of them it makes me sick, she claimed. Our experts are recently rebuilded, recently open, [we have the] largest budget, we ve never ever possessed a lot of website visitors we are an extremely vivid institution. Possibly that s the issue!.
Kusu00e1 included, I was actually not amazed whatsoever that I was actually sacked given that I understood that the culture department s job and also our job is actually quite different, so it was only an issue of your time. This example is actually certainly not just happening in Slovakia. It s concerning non-compatibility in between the brand new society ministry and also just how our team work as well as really feel.
In Oct of in 2013, Robert Fico s democratic left-wing Smer-SSD party won legislative elections in Slovakia as well as created a coalition federal government with the center-left Hlas and also nationalist SNS events. Fico has actually considering that stopped Slovakian help to Ukraine however refuses being actually pro-Russia.
Martina u0160imkoviu010dovu00e1, a television presenter that has actually buffooned expatriates on social media sites and also openly slammed homosexuals, was assigned culture priest.
Drliu010dka stated he learned of his dismissal at home on Tuesday.
I resided in my tub early in the early morning, the buzzer sounded, and also there was a policeman from the HR department along with 2 major people, I presumed they were actually security guards, but I later learned they were from the lawful department, Drliu010dka told ARTnews. They provided my dismissal however I told all of them I wasn t going to take it, this is actually not exactly how it should occur, but they told me I was actually dismissed I said thank you and they desired me a good day.
He stated that he hasn t been actually offered a reason for his firing, neither has he been talked to through u0160imkoviu010dovu00e1 The culture department said in news release that the lifestyle pastor doesn t agree with what the theater carried out and also is actually incredibly stressed regarding how I am managing in this area, etc, and so on, he revealed.
When talked to if he could possess performed one thing to distress the culture ministry, Drliu010dka pointed out that in 2022 at a conference in Budapest he created an unacceptable comment that was making an effort to be hilarious, but wasn t hilarious. He mentioned it was applied for of context as well as sounded like I desired [specific] political leaders were lifeless.
A person reported him and also he ultimately submitted his resignation as the supervisor of the National Theater, but he was actually very soon reappointed. u0160imkoviu010dovu00e1 is actually once again utilizing this case as a main reason for my termination but I ve actually spent my fine for it.
Drliu010dka pointed out that as quickly as u0160imkoviu010dovu00e1 was designated our team recognized our team were actually entering a new lifestyle war. He claimed her 1st declaration was actually that anymore, the society will be actually Slovak and also Slovak just, no mixing.
It felt like a fascist declaration, Drliu010dka informed ARTnews. Our company possessed quite bold and take on programing in the drama department, however after every premier, our experts got a lot of detestation. It was apparent that I would drop. He claimed he has actually been targeted through internet giants.
Drliu010dka and also Kusu00e1 have actually been defiant in their terminations, resolving the media together outside the SNG on Wednesday.
Employees from their respective organizations have joined the 2 past supervisors in slamming Slovakia s nationalistic union authorities for contraining institutional independence.
The SNG released a statement on Wednesday. It claimed, The staff stands firmly behind Alexandra Kusu00e1, identifying the great initiative, opportunity, expertise, humankind, impressive concept, and at times, superhuman dedication she has invested in creating a national social establishment that definitely recognizes the actual definition as well as market value of the words nationwide, society, as well as institution.
Kusu00e1 informed ARTnews that Branislav Panis, the director of the Slovak National Museum, was actually probably next on the slicing panel. He s on holiday in Croatia presently, but Slovak regulation dictates that you can easily t be actually sacked while vacationing.