His statement echoed Professor Silvo Devetak, a keynote speaker who is from Slovenia s University of Maribor.

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The Celtic player's club-mate Niall McGinn and Sunderland's George McCartney are both unavailable for the game in Maribor because of injury.

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Hibernian face the winners of the tie between Videoton of Hungary and Slovenia's NK Maribor in the Europa League third qualifying round.

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Videoton, Uefa Cup runners-up in 1985, qualified for Europe by finishing second in the Hungarian league, while Maribor are Slovenian Cup winners and boast former Rangers winger Bojan Djordjic in their squad.

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At the front of the crowd nearest the Maribor council offices on Monday, a mob - composed largely of men in their early 20s, some masked - hurled insults, flares, stones and fireworks.

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MARIBOR, Slovenia (AP) Lindsey Vonn beat rival Tina Maze on the Slovenian's home snow and in her best discipline Saturday, earning a surprising victory in a giant slalom and her second win in a week.

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Other politicians whom protesters in Maribor and elsewhere want to see out of office are Janez Jansa, on trial for corruption in an arms scandal while he was prime minister from 2004 to 2008, and the mayor of the capital Ljubljana, Zoran Jankovic, who is also the main opposition leader.

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