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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
* 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.