Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe

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The Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe (IDEE), a non-profit tax-exempt corporation, was established in 1985 to support the growing independent opposition movements in Eastern Europe seeking peaceful democratic change and an end to communism. IDEE provided financial and technical assistance and also published information and analysis in Eastern European languages in world affairs, democracy, and market economics. Through the journal Uncaptive Minds, IDEE established an English-language forum in the West for a broad range of East European opposition voices. IDEE's journal and programs facilitate contacts between Eastern and Western journalists, policy makers, human rights advocates, trade unionists, and democratic activists.

IDEE has helped democrats in the region to rebuild a free press, democratic political systems, and plural and open societies. Through its Eastern European Democracy and Publishing Program, IDEE has administered over $3 million in assistance to nearly 2,000 independent publications, civic organizations, human rights groups, and opposition movements in Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine.

In 1992, IDEE began its region-wide Centers for Pluralism Program. Centers have been established in Bucharest, Bratislava, Simferopol, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius, Warsaw, Split and Belgrade, with additional Centers planned for Belarus, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic. Each Center conducts its own civic, educational, and publishing programs, and supports a network of individuals and organizations dedicated to principles of democracy and pluralism. The coordinating hub of the Centers for Pluralism program is the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe--Warsaw. IDEE--Warsaw publishes the quarterly Centers for Pluralism Newsletter,which is distributed to over 2,000 individuals and groups and provides basic information on the activities and needs of democratic and independent organizations in the region, helping these organizations to communicate and to cooperate within and across borders.

Uncaptive Minds has a distribution of over 5,000 in Eastern Europe and the United States. It is a key resource for democrats in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to learn about other countries' transitions from communism. The journal's readership includes government officials, academics, journalists, newspaper editors, business people, NGO leaders, and private citizens. Its articles are regularly translated and republished in independent newspapers throughout the region and the United States.

Irena Lasota, President

IDEE
2000 P Street, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20036
Tel: (202) 466-7105
Fax: (202) 466-7140
E-mail: [email protected]

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Last updated: March 26 1996

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