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1 (XXXV) / 2019
Public Intellectuals. What is their place, role and responsibility today?

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This issue’s main theme examines the role of public intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe today. The public intellectual has always played a special role in this region and after the transformation in Central Europe, and ongoing changes in Eastern Europe, our authors attempt to understand the public intellectual today. Contributions focus on defining public intellectuals and delineating their influence in a very changed region. Contributors include Ukrainian philosopher Vakhtang Kebuladze, Slovak intellectual Samuel Abrahám, Hungarian historian Gergely Romsics and Polish writer Zofia Bluszcz. We also have interviews with Basil Kerski and Marci Shore.

In addition to the main theme, this issue looks at several other significant developments in the region and the world including:

- An examination of Russia’s role in the Middle East and Israeli-Russian relations

- A look at the legal aspects of Russia’s disinformation campaign in the West

- A discussion on political developments in Romania

- A debate on Georgia in the changing geopolitical environment

- The story of Mykola Golovan – a local Ukrainian artist in Lutsk

- An examination of Ukraine’s decentralization reforms

- An interview with Ivan Lishchyna, the Ukrainian deputy minister of justice

- A journey to Croatia’s olive oil producing region of Istria

- And much more.

Local governments are the foundation of democracy

By: Paweł Adamowicz

Mayor of Gdańsk and NEE supporter Paweł Adamowicz was stabbed while speaking at a public charity event and died from his wounds on January 14th 2019. We honour his memory in part by republishing this interview from 2016, in which he discusses the transition from communism to democracy and the significance of local governance. Interviewer: Iwona Reichardt

Funeral of the Mayor of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz

By: New Eastern Europe

NEE offers this brief post to inform readers about the funeral arrangements for, and chances to pay tribute to, the late Mayor of Gdańsk Paweł Adamowicz.

 

Yiddish-German: from Central Europe to the Holocaust and back?

By: Tomasz Kamusella

Before the Second World War, German enjoyed the status of a global language on par with English, French and Spanish. It is a little-known fact that the German language’s vast geographic presence was possible only thanks to German-Yiddish speaking Ashkenazi Jews. 

The perils of diplomacy: how a Christmas tree divided a nation

By: Radosveta Vassileva

Christmas may be known as the season of love and kindness, but Bulgaria will remember Christmas 2018 as the season of division. A seemingly benign gift from Russia shed light on historical wounds and party politics as well as the surprising impact social media could have on bilateral diplomacy. 

Ukraine’s prelude to Babyn Yar

By: Nikolas Kozloff

Tens of thousands of Jews were massacred at Babyn Yar in Kyiv in 1941. Still more historic crimes were committed against Jews in other outlying towns.  Director Boris Maftsir's recent film, The Road to Babi Yar, hardly shies away from historical controversy, asking how such atrocities could occur in the first place.

As Ukraine readies itself for Presidential Elections, time to read the dissertations of the candidates

By: Ararat L. Osipian

Ukraine’s former dictator Victor Yanukovych is famous for his numerous academic titles, including an advanced doctorate in economics, professorship, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences. All of these titles are considered undeserved. But the ousted “professor” is not the only scandal in Ukraine’s academia when it comes to political elites.

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