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Bulgaria: Remembrance versus ignorance

Communism and its long shadows Bulgaria embarked on the path to transition towards democracy on 10 November 1989 when the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party relieved Todor Zhivkov of his duties as a Secretary General of the Party and as a Head of State. After almost half a century of authoritarianism, the political and economic system in the country changed rapidly and drastically, at least at first glance. However, behind the democratic exterior

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Россия: Поколение транзита

«Поколение транзита». Любовь Борусяк, Алексей Левинсон, Василий Жарков, Денис Волков, Сергей Лукашевский, Полина Филиппова. Обсуждение в Сахаровском Центре на 3 сентября 2015 г. Talk at Sakharov Center in Moscow on the Transition Generation in Russia Klick here for an English and German summary of the talk Сергей Лукашевский: Общая тема нашего разговора – попытка очертить рамки подхода к проблеме, которую можно было бы назвать «поколением транзита». Конечно, когда это произносится на условном Западе, имеется в

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A Letter on Transition from Ukraine

Transition is never ending in Ukraine. Some people think that their parents’ generation was much more happier. Maybe we mentally are on a new level, but standards of our livings are still very far away from our expectation. We had some chances that we could pass as an elevator into the Future, but these features are not implemented, society is not ready yet. The Soviet system was a completely different paradigm in which the world

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Russia: A Generation in Transition – Talk

Talking about the Transition Generation Summary of a discussion at Sakharov Centre hold on September 3rd 2015 by Lubov Boruciak, Aleksey Levinson, Vassily Sharkov, Dennis Volkov, Sergey Lukashevsky and Polina Filipova. кликните здесь для полного русской версии и видео See Website Sakharov Center in English What is the concept of „transit“ – what did actually happen in Russia in the last 25, 3o years? That was the first focus of the talk, while the second

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Andrii Chernousov: “I thought it could change the way of decision making”

“When I saw a ballet on TV in August of 1991 I thought that something went wrong. Because in that period of the day actually there were news or whatever else but not a ballet! And than these four guys came on stage and started speaking that there was a kind of rebellion or some sort of revolution and changing power. And I saw that we are on a refresh of a new era! So things will change.

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Stanislav Kuvaldin: “It was the time when many roles seized to exist”

“I think that I began to think profoundly about the 90s was several years ago. I feel that I don’t have nothing that was garanteed for sure in the 90s. As I remember in the time of the 90s I remember them rather negatively. But the reality around me was something…well it was the best period for all of us. But now I fell I missed the feeling of carnival. That was the time about. It

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Aleksandra: “Now our vote was counting”

“I was still young when it was 1989 and after. But I remember that earlier it was not right to say what you really thought. So you had to support things that you were not sure of or you pretended to support a statement you really disagreed. And then you had the chance to say what you really wanted to say and to think of your own, to vote in real elections. And your vote

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Marta Sykut: “The change was more natural”

At a conference in Thessaloniki in October 2015, we asked participants from Eastern and South-eastern Europe about their “Transition Moment”. Could they tell us a little story of a moment, when they realised that something was changing fundamentally in the early 90s.

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