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European Court of Human Rights: Klein v. Slovakia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2007

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References

* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text appearing at the European Court of Human Rights website (visited January 25, 2007) <http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR>

1 This phrase is also the title of a folk song.

2 The noun “sokol” means falcon in the Slovak language.

3 The verb “trkať was used which is a slang and unofficial term for, inter alia, having sexual intercourse (The Dictionary of Slovak Slang by B. Hochel, HEVI 1993, p. 164).

4 The noun “trtko'’ means stupid or undecided person according to the Dictionary of Slovak Slang cited above (p. 164).

5 The so called “Lustration Act” was adopted in the former Czechoslovakia in 1991; it was aimed at preventing high-ranking representatives of the communist regime and collaborators of its secret police from holding certain public posts.

6 “-ko” may stand for the name of a person whose name ends with these letters but may also simply a slang noun for a person, possibly with negative connotation.

7 SKK 15,000 was at that time the equivalent of approximately 375 euros.

8 SKK 28,084is the equivalent of approximately 740 euros.