The firm has supplied communications parts to Russia’s powerful security service, the FSB, from a Slovak village.

Slovakia has a significant Romany population ... 377 - Huns cross the Danube and establish short-lived Hunnic Empire in the region under Attila. 5th Century - Slavic peoples begin settling ...

Hungary and Slovakia have also found alternative ... The usually festive occasion was interrupted by the region’s self-proclaimed government announcing daily eight-hour power outages.

Slovakia has threatened to cut emergency electricity ... particularly the pro-Russian breakaway region of Transnistria, which has been left without a vital source of power in the middle of winter.