On the occasion of the World Radio Day, UNESCO has issued its statement naming independent radio "a pillar for conflict prevention and peacebuilding". Slovakia is neighbouring Ukraine, a country in a war conflict. Slovak Parliament has passed an amendment scrapping license fees as part of public media Radio and Television Slovakia, RTVS, funding leaving it being fully financed from the state budget. The new law should come in power as of July. How to keep independence and thus peace through public media being financed from the state budget by law? And how important is public radio broadcast in a war conflict when public media in many countries serve as war propaganda tool?