On November 14, 2025, the civic association Memores and the Faculty of Law of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (UPJŠ) organized a professional seminar for teachers in Košice titled Prevention of manifestations of extremism in schools. The seminar was attended by the President of IVO Grigorij Mesežnikov with a contribution on the forms of extremism in Slovakia. Contributions were also made by Pavol Hric, Director of the Museum of Victims of Communism in Košice, Alžbeta Sniežko from the Department of History of the Faculty of Art of the UPJŠ, Darina Kmecová and Diana Repiščáková, both from the Faculty of Law of the UPJŠ. 

The speakers and discussants pointed out the importance of November 1989 as a key event in modern Slovak history, which led to the renewal of democracy and its subsequent development. They emphasized that democracy needs to be protected from efforts to weaken or even eliminate it.



Among the enemies of democracy, political extremism of various ideological patterns occupies a special place. Extremism in today's context is an anti-system phenomenon, it seeks to weaken the universal principles and values ​​on which the liberal-democratic system and democratic governance are based – equality of citizens, human rights, individual freedom, pluralism, solidarity, justice, rejection of violence, the rule of law – with all this, extremism is actually incompatible.

The participants of the event in the discussion focused on the need for high-quality education in the humanities, especially in history, and the effective operation of the rule of law institutes with the aim of preventing extremist manifestations.