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Slovakia">Slovak police</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sedlice,_Pre%C5%A1ov_District" title="Sedlice, Prešov District">Sedlice</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia">Slovakia</a></b> (population 5.4 million) is a Central European country with a history of relatively low crime. While crime became more widespread after the <a href="/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989" title="Revolutions of 1989">Revolutions of 1989</a>, it remains low when compared to many other post-communist countries. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Slovakia" title="Law enforcement in Slovakia">Slovakia employs numerous law enforcement bodies</a> and secret services in fighting crime, yet according to numerous <a href="/wiki/Opinion_poll" title="Opinion poll">opinion polls</a> the Police together with the Secret Services are some of the least trusted institutions in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Crime_by_type">Crime by type</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_Slovakia&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Crime by type"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Murder">Murder</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_Slovakia&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Murder"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate" title="List of countries by intentional homicide rate">List of countries by intentional homicide rate</a></div> <p>In 2018, Slovakia had a murder rate of 1.37 per 100,000 population.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was a total of 57 murders in Slovakia in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-UNODC_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNODC-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Violence_and_theft">Violence and theft</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_Slovakia&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Violence and theft"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Apart from the occasional mafia shooting, <a href="/wiki/Gun_violence" title="Gun violence">gun violence</a> is rare in Slovakia. There are approximately 3,000 – 4,000 home <a href="/wiki/Burglaries" class="mw-redirect" title="Burglaries">burglaries</a> and 7,000 – 8,000 <a href="/wiki/Car_thefts" class="mw-redirect" title="Car thefts">car thefts</a> in Slovakia each year. Together, there are around 15,000 cases of violent criminal acts (damage to victim's life or health) in Slovakia each year. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Illegal_drug_trade_in_Slovakia">Illegal drug trade in Slovakia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_Slovakia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Illegal drug trade in Slovakia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Slovak Republic is a party to the 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1972 Protocol thereto, and the 1971 UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances. Not only the manufacture and selling of certain drugs is illegal but also their possession. Slovak law does not differentiate between hard drugs and soft drugs and sentences can in theory be as harsh as <a href="/wiki/Life_imprisonment_in_Slovakia" title="Life imprisonment in Slovakia">life imprisonment</a>. </p><p>Until the mid-1990s the drug situation in Slovakia remained somewhat stable; extensive small-scale illicit <a href="/wiki/Pervitin" class="mw-redirect" title="Pervitin">amphetamine</a> production, no <a href="/wiki/Opium_poppy" class="mw-redirect" title="Opium poppy">opium poppy</a> cultivation, only minimal <a href="/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)" title="Cannabis (drug)">cannabis</a> cultivation in private greenhouses and the country was already a key transit point for smuggling Asian <a href="/wiki/Heroin" title="Heroin">heroin</a> to Western Europe both via <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> and lying on the "Balkan route" from Turkey.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seizures of <a href="/wiki/Cocaine" title="Cocaine">cocaine</a> up to this point have been minimal and at this time Slovakia emerged as another crossroads for cocaine traffickers seeking new routes to Western Europe (<a href="/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade_in_Colombia" title="Illegal drug trade in Colombia">Colombian traffickers</a> have been smuggling cocaine through the neighboring <a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> since 1991). Because the banking sector in Slovakia was still in nascent stages at this time, drug <a href="/wiki/Money_laundering" title="Money laundering">money laundering</a> operations were limited. </p><p>In November 1995, an independent national drug service was created in Slovakia and the government established a new comprehensive anti-drug plan to target drug trafficking and use and made drug-related changes to the criminal code. The biggest seizures made by the <a href="/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Slovakia" title="Law enforcement in Slovakia">Slovak police</a> in 1995 were a 123.5 kilogram heroin seizure, and a 25 kilogram cocaine seizure. Implementation of chemical control regulations and legislation continues to create concern about the vulnerability of the country's well-developed chemical and pharmaceutical industry being partially used for the production of illegal drugs or precursor chemicals. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Organized_crime">Organized crime</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_Slovakia&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Organized crime"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Slovak_mafia" title="Slovak mafia">Slovak mafia</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Slovak_mafia" title="Slovak mafia">Slovak mafia</a> constitutes various <a href="/wiki/Organized_crime" title="Organized crime">organized crime</a> groups in Slovakia, controlled primarily by Slovak interests. The Slovak mafia does not have significant international presence and even in Slovakia, their activities are limited by boundaries set by the powerful <a href="/wiki/Russian_mafia" title="Russian mafia">Russian mafia</a> (including <a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_mafia" title="Ukrainian mafia">Ukrainian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chechen_mafia" title="Chechen mafia">Chechen mafia</a>) and various Balkan groups controlling much of the <a href="/wiki/Heroin" title="Heroin">heroin</a> trade.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Slovak mafia is especially active in security business, construction and ownership of restaurants and nightclubs.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">United States Department of Defense</a> "both indigenous and foreign organized crime groups are well established in Slovakia".<sup id="cite_ref-his.com_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-his.com-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under Slovak law, the creation or support of an organized crime group constitutes a crime. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Corruption">Corruption</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_Slovakia&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Corruption"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Slovakia" title="Corruption in Slovakia">Corruption in Slovakia</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Transparency_International" title="Transparency International">Transparency International</a>’s Global Corruption Barometer 2013 indicates that corruption remains a serious problem in Slovakia.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Crime_dynamics">Crime dynamics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_Slovakia&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Crime dynamics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the 1990s, there were 2,300 reported crimes per 100,000 citizens in Slovakia. In comparison with the neighboring countries - it was 3.200 in <a href="/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>, 3.400 in <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>, 4.100 in the <a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> and 6.100 in <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1989 to 1999, the number of crime perpetrators has slightly risen from over 35.000 in 1989 to almost 45.000 in 1999. The number of perpetrators not convicted remains stable at some 80 percent of total perpetrators. Also somewhat stable is the number of habitual offenders at approximately 10.000.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 2000s saw again a slight rise in the number of perpetrators and a steep rise in economic crime. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_Slovakia&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_political_scandals" class="mw-redirect" title="Slovak political scandals">Slovak political scandals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Slovakia" title="Human trafficking in Slovakia">Human trafficking in Slovakia</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_Slovakia&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mod.gov.sk/data/files/472.pdf">"Správa z výskumu verejnej mienky"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Mod.gov.sk</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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title="Celemantia">Celemantia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Slavs" title="Slavs">Medieval Slavic states</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/West_Slavs" title="West Slavs">West Slavs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samo%27s_Empire" title="Samo's Empire">Samo's Empire</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samo" title="Samo">Samo</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Nitra" title="Principality of Nitra">Principality of Nitra</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pribina" title="Pribina">Pribina</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Moravia" title="Great Moravia">Great Moravia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Mojm%C3%ADr" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Mojmír">House of Mojmír</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svatopluk_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Svatopluk I">Svatopluk the Great</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balaton_Principality" class="mw-redirect" title="Balaton Principality">Balaton Principality</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary" title="Kingdom of Hungary">Kingdom of Hungary</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Habsburg_monarchy" title="Habsburg monarchy">Habsburg monarchy</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Hungary" title="Principality of Hungary">Principality of Hungary</a> (895–1000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary_(1000%E2%80%931301)" title="Kingdom of Hungary (1000–1301)">High Medieval Kingdom of Hungary</a> (1000–1301)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_III_Cs%C3%A1k" title="Matthew III Csák">Matthew III Csák</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary_(1301%E2%80%931526)" title="Kingdom of Hungary (1301–1526)">Late Medieval Kingdom of Hungary</a> (1301–1526)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Moh%C3%A1cs" title="Battle of Mohács">Battle of Mohács</a> (1526)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Hungary" title="Ottoman Hungary">Ottoman Hungary</a> (1541–1699)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budin_Eyalet" title="Budin Eyalet">Province of Budin</a> (1541–1686)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality_of_Transylvania_(1570%E2%80%931711)" title="Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711)">Principality of Transylvania</a> (1570–1711)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austrian_Empire" title="Austrian Empire">Austrian Empire</a> (1804–1867)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Hungary" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Hungary">Kingdom of Hungary</a> (1526–1867)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary">Austro-Hungarian Empire</a> (1867–1918)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upper_Hungary" title="Upper Hungary">Upper Hungary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_Uprising_1848%E2%80%9349" class="mw-redirect" title="Slovak Uprising 1848–49">Slovak Uprising</a> (1848–1849) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_National_Council_(1848%E2%80%9349)" class="mw-redirect" title="Slovak National Council (1848–49)">Slovak National Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demands_of_the_Slovak_Nation" title="Demands of the Slovak Nation">Demands of the Slovak Nation</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Czechoslovakia" title="History of Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Czechoslovak_declaration_of_independence" title="Czechoslovak declaration of independence">Washington Declaration</a> (1918)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Czechoslovak_Republic" title="First Czechoslovak Republic">First Czechoslovak Republic</a> (1918–1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_Soviet_Republic" title="Slovak Soviet Republic">Slovak Soviet Republic</a> (1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Munich_Agreement" title="Munich Agreement">Munich Betrayal</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Czechoslovak_Republic" title="Second Czechoslovak Republic">Second Czechoslovak Republic</a> (1938–1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_Land_of_Slovakia" title="Autonomous Land of Slovakia">Autonomous Land of Slovakia</a> (1938–1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Occupation_of_Czechoslovakia_(1938%E2%80%931945)" title="Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)">Occupation of Czechoslovakia</a> (1938–1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czechoslovak_government-in-exile" title="Czechoslovak government-in-exile">Czechoslovak government-in-exile</a> (1939–1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_Republic_(1939%E2%80%931945)" title="Slovak Republic (1939–1945)">First Slovak Republic</a> (1939–1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_National_Uprising" title="Slovak National Uprising">Slovak National Uprising</a> (1944)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iron_Curtain" title="Iron Curtain">Iron Curtain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Czechoslovak_Republic" title="Third Czechoslovak Republic">Third Czechoslovak Republic</a> (1945–1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Czechoslovak_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état">Czechoslovak coup d'état</a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic" title="Czechoslovak Socialist Republic">Fourth Czechoslovak Republic</a> (1948–1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic" title="Czechoslovak Socialist Republic">Czechoslovak Socialist Republic</a> (1960–1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prague_Spring" title="Prague Spring">Prague Spring</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia">Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_Socialist_Republic_(1969%E2%80%931990)/Slovak_Republic_(1990%E2%80%931992)" class="mw-redirect" title="Slovak Socialist Republic (1969–1990)/Slovak Republic (1990–1992)">Slovak Socialist Republic</a> (1969–1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Velvet_Revolution" title="Velvet Revolution">Velvet Revolution</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czech_and_Slovak_Federative_Republic" title="Czech and Slovak Federative Republic">Czech and Slovak Federative Republic</a> (1990–1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_Socialist_Republic_(1969%E2%80%931990)/Slovak_Republic_(1990%E2%80%931992)" class="mw-redirect" title="Slovak Socialist Republic (1969–1990)/Slovak Republic (1990–1992)">Slovak Republic</a> (1990–1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Dissolution of Czechoslovakia">Velvet Divorce</a> 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style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_castles_in_Slovakia" title="List of castles in Slovakia">Castles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carpathian_Mountains" title="Carpathian Mountains">Carpathians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Slovakia" title="List of cities and towns in Slovakia">Cities and towns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_Slovakia" title="Districts of Slovakia">Districts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_Slovakia" title="List of islands of Slovakia">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_and_towns_in_Slovakia" title="List of municipalities and towns in Slovakia">Municipalities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_Slovakia" title="List of national parks of Slovakia">National parks</a></li> 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navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Albania" title="Crime in Albania">Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_Andorra&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crime in Andorra (page does not exist)">Andorra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Armenia" title="Crime in Armenia">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Austria" title="Crime in Austria">Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Azerbaijan" class="mw-redirect" title="Crime in Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_Belarus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crime in Belarus (page does not exist)">Belarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Belgium" title="Crime in Belgium">Belgium</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina (page does not exist)">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></li> 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href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_North_Macedonia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crime in North Macedonia (page does not exist)">North Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Norway" title="Crime in Norway">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Poland" title="Crime in Poland">Poland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Portugal" title="Crime in Portugal">Portugal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Romania" title="Crime in Romania">Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Russia" title="Crime in Russia">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Crime_in_San_Marino&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Crime in San Marino (page does not exist)">San Marino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Serbia" title="Crime in Serbia">Serbia</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Slovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Slovenia" title="Crime in Slovenia">Slovenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Spain" title="Crime in Spain">Spain</a></li> 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