There are a lot of think tanks in every democratic country. A very important think tank in Poland is Centre for Eastern Studies (Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich im. Marka Karpia). It’s an independent public research institution monitoring the events and analysing the socio-political and economic processes taking place in Russia, Germany, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states, the Visegrad Group states, the Balkan states and Turkey.

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Current topis of analysis are:

Local elections in Ukraine / Wybory samorządowe na Ukrainie

Apprehension of Hennadij Korban – faight against corruption or political enemies? / Zatrzymanie Hennadija Korbana – walka z korupcją czy przeciwnikami politycznymi?

Germany: conflict in the great coalition / Niemcy: konflikt w wielkiej koalicji

Moldova: Fall of government of Valeriu Streleta / Mołdawia: upadek rządu Valeriu Streleța

Secretary of State of the United States of America in Central Asia / Sekretarz stanu USA w Azji Centralnej

Parliamentary elections in the Turkey – return of the party AKP to power / Wybory parlamentarne w Turcji – powrót AKP do pełni władzy

Phobia towards Russia as a tool of the strategy of the Kremlin. Weapons of mass destruction / Rusofobia w strategii Kremla. Broń masowego rażenia

What do you think, which other think tanks are very important in East Central Europe?

Fot. Russian Council, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

On October, 24 they met in Warsaw (Museum of History of Polish Jews – Polin) at the 1st Meeting of Community Archives (www.archiwa.org).

Community archives exist also in different countries in the world. You can read about archives in Kanada, New Zeland, Italy, Germany, Great Britain and Poland here.

Photo: Warsaw University, Author: Nihil novi
Polish universities include research on community archives into study programmes and representatives of community archives are invited at universities, e.g. I was invited by a Polish professor of history to his seminar at the Warsaw University in May 2015. Beside that students chose to absolve their internships at community archives.

„Citizens decide” („Obywatele decydują”), „I love Poland” („Kocham Polskę”) and „We can do it” („Damy radę”) are new catchwords of political parties. It could not be antything wrong, but these slogans are slogans of ngo’s projects or other organizastions. Are there conscious actions or spin doctors’s inattention during electoral campaigns?

• New political party Modern Poland (Nowoczesna Polska) – the same name as non governmental organization The Modern Poland Foundation (Fundacja Nowoczesna Polska) – is a market liberal and social liberal party founded in 2015 by the economist Ryszard Petru. Many people thought that Modern Poland and The Modern Poland Foundation are the same organization. Current name: .Modern

• During electoral campaign Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) used a catchword „Citizens decide” („Obywatele decydują”). It is also project of Institute of Civil Affairs (Instytut Spraw Obywatelskich, Inspro). Project has conduct for three years.

• „We can do it” („Damy radę”) was other PiS’s catchwords. People know these slogan from fable „Bob the Builder” („Bob Budowniczy”). It is also a WWO’s song.

• Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska, PO) used a slogan „I love Poland” („Kocham Polskę”). It is also the name of campaign prepered by All-Polish Youth (Młodzież Wszechpolska). These organization has conduct their campaign for ten years.

The Polish longer version of this article you can find here: http://tajnikipolityki.pl/aaaaby-dobre-haslo-chetnie-przejme/.

Marta Gałązka, political scientist, researcher and project coordinator. Ph.D, student in political science at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, author of the site https://www.facebook.com/PartieWyboryPolityka.

Janicki deals with emotions of the visitors very instrumentally. He even makes them want to cry. Unfortunatelly he also seems to own the the whole equipment, documents and photos. He works now for the city library, so hopefully the things will be later taken over by the library.