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2010

07. 06. 2010 – Swedish MP and embassy representative pay a visit to the Institute and the Archive
12. 05. 2010 – The Council of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes relieves Jiří Pernes of the post of director and appoints Zdeněk Hazdra
01. 03. 2010 – Ntsiki Sandi, former member of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, visits the Institute and Archive
28. 02. 2010 – Discussion with Advocate Ntsiki Sandi, member of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
28. 02. 2010 – Statement by participants of the international conference “Crimes of the Communist Regimes”
24. 02. 2010 – International conference “Crimes of the Communist Regimes”
18. 01. 2010 – Presentation of the working group on the Platform of European Memory and Conscience in Brussels

2009

14. 12. 2009 – Agreement signed with an additional Ukrainian partner
08. 12. 2009 – Institute Director Žáček becomes founding member of the International Learned Committee of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory
07. 12. 2009 – Results of the Activities of the Institute for the Study of Totalitiarian Regimes and the Security Services Archive
16. 11. 2009 – The Institute Awards Champions of Democracy and Freedom – Conferral ceremony of the Václav Benda Award
15. 11. 2009 – “Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police” Exhibition Opens at Harvard University
09. 11. 2009 – Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes publicizes lists of staff servicemen of SNB Directorate I and II
06. 11. 2009 – Invitation to a press conference
05. 11. 2009 – “Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police” Exhibition Tour Continues with Opening at Harvard University
04. 11. 2009 – Institute activities related to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia
03. 11. 2009 – On the Cold War Front - Czechoslovakia 1948–1956
27. 10. 2009 – Institute Director Receives Two Honorary Awards this Fall
27. 10. 2009 – Exhibition: “We Did Not Give Up, or Stories of the 20th Century”
23. 10. 2009 – Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police - Exhibition Tour Continues in Europe and the United States
14. 10. 2009 – Institute Director Pavel Žáček Proposes Establishment of a Platform of European Memory and Conscience at European Parliament Conference
08. 10. 2009 – 20 Years After Conference Concludes
07. 10. 2009 – 20 Years After Conference Continues
06. 10. 2009 – 20 Years After Conference Has Commenced
05. 10. 2009 – Conference on the Anniversary of the Fall of the Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia Begins Tomorrow
11. 09. 2009 – 23 August - The European Day of Remembrance for victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, Members of the working group for the Platform of European Memory and Conscience commemorated the 70th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
09. 09. 2009 – Agreement Signed with Germany's BStU
24. 08. 2009 – August 23 – European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of All Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes: 70th Anniversary of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
21. 08. 2009 – Unique Videos From 1969 Released
20. 08. 2009 – Opening of the Exhibition “Brno in August 1969”
20. 08. 2009 – Exhibition of Photographs from the Workshop of the Czechoslovak Communist Secret Police Launches U.S. Tour
10. 07. 2009 – The Security Services Archive Launches its Digital Archive Project
17. 04. 2009 – Conference on Resistance and Opposition Against Communist Regimes Concluded
16. 04. 2009 – The Institute and Archive Directors Have Signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania
16. 04. 2009 – Highlights of the Conference's First Day
15. 04. 2009 – Conference on Resistance and Opposition Against Communist Regimes Inaugurated
09. 04. 2009 – International Conference “Resistance and Opposition against the Communist Regime in Czechoslovakia and Central Europe”
07. 04. 2009 – Premiere of the exhibition “Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police” and launch of the eponymous book
18. 03. 2009 – Third step towards European platform of memory and conscience – a Czech Presidency initiative
13. 03. 2009 – Hearing in the European Parliament on the Crimes of Communism
24. 02. 2009 – Opening of the Exhibition “On the Cold War Front”
03. 02. 2009 – Activities during the period of the Czech presidency of the Council of the EU

2008

22. 12. 2008 – The Institute will Cooperate with Partners in the Ukraine
03. 11. 2008 – Celebrations to mark the opening of the Ján Langoš library
26. 10. 2008 – The Institute and Archive Signed a Cooperation Agreement with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
20. 06. 2008 – 1968 Web Site Launch

Media Coverage

In English

2010

“Secret Police Photos Evoke the Iron Curtain Era” (Archival Outlook: Newsletter of the Society of American Archivists, Jan/Feb 2010)

2009

Citizen spies, spied-on citizens. An exhibit of Czech secret-police photos from the Communist era, at Harvard through Dec. 21, shows Big Brother as unintentional artist (Harvard University Gazette, news.harvard.edu/gazette, 03-16 December 2009)
Lists of 13,500 StB employees posted online (Prague Daily Monitor, 18 December 2009)
Institute director Pavel Žáček: petition against me “like voice from the past” (www.radio.cz, 20 November 2009)
Institute continues to delve into dark past (The Prague Post, November 11, 2009)
Anti-communist demonstration violently suppressed twenty years ago in Prague, just three weeks before Velvet Revolution (www.radio.cz, 27 October 2009)
Twenty years after: central and eastern Europe coping with communist legacy (www.radio.cz, 13 October 2009)
Communism Still Threat for Czech Republic - ODS Leader Topolanek (ČeskéNoviny.cz, 6 October 2009)
When Prague Spied on Its Own (Roll Call, Washington, DC, 14 September 2009, www.rollcall.com)
Expert: Czech, Soviet secret police were strongly interconnected (Prague Daily Monitor, 29 May 2009, praguemonitor.com)
Coffee-table book with a difference collects photographs taken surreptitiously by communist-era secret police (www.radio.cz, 28 May 2009)
'Object' of my affection (The Prague Post, 27 May 2009, www.praguepost.com)
Czech historians publishing war-time files (Prague Daily Monitor, 5 May 2009, praguemonitor.com)
Atlantic Eye: Ilya Rips, a Latvian anti-communist hero (www.upi.com, 27 April 2009)
Soviet invasion´s victims finally have stories told (Czech Business Weekly, 23 April 2009)
Communists used to jail youths (Aktuálně.cz, 17 April 2009)
Topolánek: Totalitarianism study institute is outstanding step (Prague Daily Monitor, 16 April 2009)
Should an EU body be created to deal with Europe’s Communist and Nazi past? (www.radio.cz, 24 March 2009)
Soviet invasion up close (Prague Daily Monitor, 23 March 2009, praguemonitor.com)
Czech EU presidency for totalitarianism research single platform (Prague Daily Monitor, 19 March 2009, praguemonitor.com)
The everyday occupation (The Prague Post, 19 March 2009, www.praguepost.com)
Around Town: Polish martyr lives on (The Prague Post, 19 February 2009, www.praguepost.com)
Prague street renamed in honour of Polish “human torch“ against Soviet invasion (www.radio.cz, 13 February 2009 )
Palach's "wake-up call" of 40 years ago remembered (Aktuálně.cz, 13 January 2009)

2008

Czechs, US institutes agree on exchange of Holocaust documents (praguemonitor.com, 27 October 2008)
Archives full of explosive revelations (Prague Daily Monitor,22 October 2008)
Communist era executions displayed online (Aktuálně.cz, 11 September 2008)
Small but effective: communist secret police dissected (Interview with the Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes Pavel Žáček on the theme State Security (Státní bezpečnost, popularly know as StB) for Aktuálně.cz, 7 August 2008)
Welcome to the Heart of Europe 5/2008, pages 4 – 7: The Czechs no longer fear their own past" says Pavel Zacek, Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (www.theo.cz)

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