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News

• 24 October 2005
  Round Table and Launch of new CDRSEE publication "Disclosing Hidden History: Lustration in the Western Balkans" in Belgrade
  Programme
  Photos
  Press clippings
  • Article "Na lustraciju svi zaboravili" published in "Glas Javnosti", November 9th 2005 (PDF file, 478 Kb)
  • Article "Mentalna higijena - Novi predlog o lustraciji krije staru ideologiju", published in Magazin, November 5th 2005 (jpg file, 265 Kb)
  • Article "Izbaciti iz politike one koji su 90-ih kršili ljudska prava", published in Jutarnji list, October 25th 2005 (jpg file, 191 Kb)
  • Article "Balkanski špijuni i dalje među nama", published in "Vreme", October 27th 2005 (PDF file, 366 Kb)
  • Article "Znam, dakle ćutim", published in "Dnevnik", October 26th 2005 (PDF file, 324 Kb)
  • Article "Balkan bez lustracije", published in "Borba", October 25th 2005 (PDF file, 165 Kb)
  • Article "Vesna Pešić: Tajne službe kontrolišu političare", published in "Blic", October 25th 2005 (PDF file, 141 Kb)
  • Article "Nespremnost vlasti na suočavanje sa prošlošću", published in "Danas", October 25th 2005 (PDF file, 227 Kb)
  • Article "Vesna Pešić: DB nas i dalje kontroliše", published in "Kurir", October 25th 2005 (PDF file, 89 Kb)
  • Article "Balkan bez lustracije", published in "Kurir", October 25th 2005 (PDF file, 98 Kb)
  • Article "Istraživanje: na Balkanu nije bilo lustracije", published in "Pregled", October 25th 2005 (PDF file, 185 Kb)
  • Article "Zaverenici dave Srbiju", published in "Dnevnik", October 25th 2005 (PDF file, 86 Kb)
    
    
• 6 July 2005 - The CDRSEE has published  the "Dossier: Conclusions and Recommendations" on  www.lustration.net, which is the final publication of 18 months of research on the issue of Lustration in the Western Balkans. The dossier compiles the findings of the cross border research which involved more than 150 experts from the Western Balkans. It includes debates about how democracy and the rule of law could benefit from a lustration process and what form this process could take.
  Download the Press release here (pdf file, 106 kb)
  
  
• 19.05.2005 - Recommendation Workshop Thessaloniki 26-29 May 2005
  Programme
  List of Participants
  Photos
  
  
• 25.04.2005 - BBC Radio show on Lustration - serbian langauge
  RealMedia file (1.6 Mb)
  MP3 file (6 Mb)
  
  
• 16.03.2005 Press release
  Publication of "Manual on Lustration, Public Access to Files of the Secret Services and Public Debates on the Past in the Western Balkans (pdf file, 76 kb)
  
  
• Press clippings Zagreb
  • "Zagreb domaćin međunarodnog skupa o lustraciji", HINA news agency, 18.02.2005 (jpg file, 70 Kb)
  • "Istoria kai simfiliosi", 22.02.2005 (jpg file, 88 Kb)
  • "Zagreb domaćin međunarodnog skupa o lustraciji", 18.02.2005, (jpg file, 54 Kb)
  • "Seminar o lustraciji", Vjesnik newspaper, 18.02.2005 (jpg file, 18 Kb)
  • "Lustracija - tema bez koje se ne može u budućnost", 20.2.2005 (jpg file, 44 Kb)
  • "Turek i Ostojić na seminaru", Večernji list 19.02.2005 (jpg file, 55 Kb)
  • "Lustracija - tema bez koje se ne može u budućnost", Vjesnisk 19.02.2005 (jpg file, 44 Kb)
  • "Zagreb domaćin medunarodnog skupa o lustraciji", Zex 20.02.2005 (jpg file, 55 Kb)
  • "Javne Rasprave - Puhovski: Lustracija u Hrvatskoi neizvediva" Večernji list 20.02.2005 (jpg file, 24 Kb)
    
    
• 02.03.2005 Seminar in Zagreb
  Lustration, Public Debates on the Past und the Rule of Law, Seminar in Zagreb, 17-20 February 2005
  • List of Participants
  • Photos
  • Press Release (pdf en)
    
    
• Press Clippings Tirana
  Panorama, 13 February 2005 (albanian, gif file, 441 Kb)
  Korrieri, 10 December 2004 (albanian, gif file, 677 Kb)
  Njerez, November 2004 (albanian, gif file, 121 Kb)
  Panorama, 17 October 2004 (albanian, gif file, 214 Kb)
  Korrieri, 17 October 2004 (albanian, gif file, 267 Kb)
  English translation of above press clippings (pdf file, 44 Kb)
  
  
• 21.12.2004 Press release
  Past and Present: Consequences for Democratisation
  Web-publication available free of charge (pdf file, 77 kb)
  
  
• 04.10.2004 Seminar in Tirana
  Lustration Legislation and Procedures - Seminar in Tirana, 15-17 October 2004 - Programme
  • List of Participants
  • Photos
  • Press Release (pdf en)
  • Press Release (pdf gr)
    
    
• Press Clippings  - Past and Present: Consequences for Democratisation, Seminar and Press Conference Belgrade 02 - 04 July 04
  • Press Conference
  • List of Participants
  • 09.07.2004 - PRESS RELEASE - Past and Present: Consequences for Democratisation, Seminar - Belgrade 02 - 04 July 04 (pdf file, 81 kb)
  • Balkan newspaper,
    July 5th 2004, page 2 (pdf file, English language, 9 kb)
  • Danas newspaper,
    July 5th, 2004, page 6 (pdf file, English language, 63 kb)
  • Kurir newspaper,
    July 5th, 2004, page 2 (pdf file, English language, 49 kb)
  • Politika Ekspres newspaper, July 5th, 2004, page 3 (pdf file, English language, 55 kb)
  • BBC interview with Žarko Puhovski,
    transcript (pdf file, English language, 69 kb)
    
    
• 09.07.2004 - Past and Present: Consequences for Democratisation, Seminar - Belgrade 02 - 04 July 04
  
  
• Press Conference in Belgrade on the occasion of the Seminar "Past and Present: Consequences for Democratisation", 3rd July 2004, Metropol hotel, Belgrade
  
  
• 31.03.2004 - PRESS RELEASE - Disclosing Hidden History: Lustration in the Western Balkans (pdf file, 131 kb)