MANY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ruling coalition have criticized "anti-Slovak" journalists for "damaging the country's good reputation" at home and abroad. Yet government and parliamentary officials - with their verbal threats and concrete actions - have caused much more damage to Slovakia's international image.

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