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The current increase in religiously motivated radicalism is a serious social problem in various countries. Through our qualitative research, which was based on the knowledge and experience of experts recorded during the focus group interview, it was possible to identify the most frequent causes of religious radicalism in Slovakia today. The Slovak Republic, a small post-communist country in the region of Eastern Europe, served as an empirical example for research purposes. Following the research findings, a second research objective was set, namely to present the possibilities and contribution of citizen journalism that can play a key role in tracking, documenting and sharing cases of religious radicalism. The research presents the causes of religious radicalism and the optimal possibilities of citizen journalism, which would adequately respond to contemporary religious radicalism with the use of online media. The activities of "people's journalists" appear not only as a trigger for public debate that takes place on social media, blogs, and independent journalistic platforms but also as a necessary voice calling for accountability and transparency of solutions concerning religious radicalism, which is inherently complex and a multifactorial process, often leading to extremism. This study attempts to answer the question of why civic engagement using online media is important in this issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: The aim of the article is to uniquely summarize the findings of long-term research to point out that the instrumentalization of the history of post-war migration is influenced by the effort to recodify historical events in the interest of new political goals and the needs of political practice. In the article were used several methodological approaches. Long-term archival research findings were compared with monitoring of Slovak and Hungarian daily press after 1989. Based on the documents obtained, by comparing them and by generalizing the knowledge gained in previous periods, which has been presented in several works, the author tries to take a look at the instrumentalization of post-war national policy and migratory population movements in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. In particular, he looks at the migratory movements of the Slovak and Hungarian populations in the postwar period, e.g. the population exchange agreement between Czechoslovakia and Hungary, the forced displacement of Slovak Hungarians to Bohemia, and other segments of the post-war Czechoslovak anti-minority policy, which is referred to under the collective, albeit incorrect, term the Beneš Decrees in political and propaganda practice. It is this term that symbolises the influence of politics and propaganda in explaining historical events. Background: In the context of the issues raised, the study provides a brief characterisation of the post-war situation in Slovak-Hungarian relations, a look at Czechoslovak post-war legislation and the stabilisation of the borders at the Paris Conference of 1946. It highlights the differences in the strategies of Hungary and Czechoslovakia in relation to the confirmation of the borders after the WWII and the strategy of both states at the Paris Peace Conference. Furthermore, it discuss the process of establishing stable borders to the peace treaties adopted in the 20th century. He observes the assimilationist patterns of the unification of Slovakia's post-war ethnic structure and the interpretation of post-war national and resettlement policies as a process of instrumentalizing post-war history in political and propaganda practice. The paper pays special attention to the issue of post-war legislation, under which politics, journalism and public opinion classified all post-war measures against minorities, labelled the "Beneš Decrees". Conclusion: The author concludes that the instrumentalization of the history of post-war migrations is influenced by the desire to recodify historical events in the interest of new political aims and the needs of political practice. This endeavour makes abundant use of purposefully selected linguistic devices that are used to emotionally affect the recipient of the resulting product. These include both the demonization and glorification of historical actors, as well as the purposeful adjustment of historical facts to the contemporary political needs of political actors. This is closely related to the construction of commemorative mechanisms and schemes by which political propagandists seek to dominate public space in areas inhabited jointly by Hungarians and Slovaks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study focuses on the diversity of genre production of one of the public service broadcasters. Radio production of Radio Regina Západ consists of news, journalistic and non-genre journalistic genres. This issue is actual from the point of view of the real occurrence of radio journalistic genres in radio broadcasting and its theoretical definition. The main aim is to provide an insight into the work of the public service broadcaster and its regional work in the region of Western Slovakia through the analysis of weekly broadcasting. In this way we would like to point out the genre focus of this radio circuit of Radio and Television of Slovakia (RTVS). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]