This article focuses at powers of the Presidents of the Slovak Republic during the period from 1999 to 2019. Therefore, the aim is to compare how selected constitutional presidential powers were exercised after the fundamental constitutional changes in 1999. The most significant change was by introducing direct presidential elections, and adjusting the President´s constitutional status. The ways how the individual Presidents holding their office within this period, exercised their powers towards the Parliament, government, and the judiciary do form the basic research questions here. Hence, whether a personal background of individual Presidents and political reality of seats distribution in the Parliament predetermined their exercise of these powers, or if there were some other rules present when they exercised their office. The findings presented in this research reflect 20 years of continuous exercise of Presidential office in the conditions of the Slovak Republic. This ultimately leads to the conclusion that the function itself, as well as its constitutional definition, has affected the exercise of Presidential powers more ultimately than the personal background of these directly elected Presidents at the beginning of their terms of office. The very first President, Mr. Michal Kováč, got into a major conflict with then Prime Minister, Vladimír Mečiar, even during the first year after taking the office. This conflict lasted nearly for five-years and altogether with the inability of the MPs to elect his successor led to the necessity of amending the Constitution. Presidents Rudolf Schuster, Ivan Gašparovič and Andrej Kiska gradually took their office, but only the second mentioned had managed to defend his position in an electoral competition. At present, the office of President is held by Zuzana Čaputová, who has been in the office since June 2019 - as the very first woman in this position in history of Slovakia.

In this text, the author, in the recent past acting as an extraordinary and empowered ambassador of the Slovak Republic in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, presents his view on the current mechanism -Kazakhstan's economic and political example -the interaction between the countries of Central Asia, Russia and China in the political, security, economic area with an overlap in the overall geopolitical configuration in the region. It points out and notes the growing influence (economic, cultural, educational ... political and military-security) of China on the individual countries of the region. At the same time, Central Asia as a widening geographical unit.The author also emphasizes the implications of the transition from a one-pole world to a real multipolarity with a robust participation by China and the gradual waning of Russia's role in the Central Asian region.