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Tomasz Sawczuk is a Kultura Liberalna employee and a co-founder of the magazine’s Temat Tygodnia [Theme of the Week] section. He bears responsibility for the finances of the Kultura Liberalna Foundation and also contributes commentaries on current political events. A law graduate, Tomasz is presently writing his doctorate at the University of Warsaw’s Philosophy Institute. He is also a keyboard…

Wiktor Osiatyński is an author, lecturer, lawyer and social activist. Wiktor studied law and sociology at the University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences, completing his doctorate in sociology and then his post-doctorate in legal studies. In the early nineties, Wiktor was the director of Chicago University’s Centre for the Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe, before moving…

Jarosław Kuisz is the editor-in-chief of Kultura Liberalna, an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Law and Administration and an associate researcher at Paris’ National Centre for Scientific Research’s Institute for History of the Present-Day. Jarosław also lectures at the University of Warsaw’s Interdisciplinary College of Individual Humanist Studies and College of the Liberal Arts and a…

The sticking point The greatest weapon used by Putin’s Russia in its ideological offensive is the preservation of the traditional family in its supposedly age-old format. Asserting this societal model as an inviolable moral value, the Russian government presents itself as the last bastion between its citizenry and their corruption through what it brands as European societal perversions. Which concept…

Unfortunately, there were some difficulties with the audio recording of Sunday’s events. Subsequently, we only have a Slovakian-language recording of Us and Them and an English-language version of the second half of GLOBSEC at CEF, with an accompanying link to a full-length Slovakian recording. Happily, Theatre and Freedom was unaffected by these issues and you can view a full-length English-language…

A divided Europe What does the Ukrainian conflict mean for Central Europe? What can be considered to be ethical and meaningful stances vis-à-vis Russia? Which historical lessons are relevant to the present crisis? Should we look for guidance in the events of 1938 – aggression won’t stop of its own accord unless we take a stand – do we need…

Nick Buxton is a communications consultant who works for the Transnational Institute [TNI] and has been involved in global justice and environmental justice movements for over 20 years. He is the editor of TNI’s annual State of Power reports and the book Shifting Power – Critical Perspectives on Emerging Economies (2015). He co-edited The Secure and the Dispossesed: How the…

Ben Hayes is a Transnational Institute fellow who has worked for the civil liberties organisation Statewatch since 1996 and who specialises in national and international security policies. Ben also works as an independent researcher and consultant. He is a co-editor of The Secure and the Dispossesed: How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World and the author of…

Jo Ram is a co-founder of Community Reinvest, an organisation which works with the fossil fuel divestment movement to demystify finance and enable reinvestment of divested funds into a democratic and just energy system. She is also a member of the Red Pepper editorial collective, an activist with the Art Not Oil Coalition and an academic, who works at the…

Asad Rehman co-ordinates Friends of the Earth’s international climate work, is an inspiring spokesperson for climate justice in Naomi Klein’s recent film This Changes Everything and has long been actively involved in countless anti-racist and social justice struggles in London. Information valid as of winter 2015.

Iliya Valkov is a political journalist and a professor of crisis communications in the Journalism and Mass Communication Department of the University of Sofia. He has an MA in Sociology and a PhD in crisis communication. Iliya also collaborates with various printed and electronic media outlets in Bulgaria and is active as a political consultant and analyst. His interests include…