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Newsletter #57 - Summer 2016



LJUBO SIRC - HONEST, LOYAL, REBELLIOUS. A NEW PUBLICATION



A new Briefing Paper based on the Ljubo Sirc Lecture given by Dr Jože Dežman in the House of Lords is now available. Price: £10.

There is also an Appreciation of Dr Sirc by Alois Peterle MEP and first Prime Minister of post-communist Slovenia. In addition Keith Miles OBE has contributed an essay on: Dr Ljubo Sirc and Economics.

Dr Ljubo Sirc CBE
Dr Ljubo Sirc CBE

Our grateful thanks to the Lecture’s sponsors: Lord Vinson of Roddam Dene, Adam Smith Institute, John Chown, Civitas, Institute of Economic Affairs, Dr Cameron McPhail & Cento Veljanovski.


DR JOŽE DEŽMAN


Some notes on our Lecturer and author:

Dr Dežman was director of the Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia 2005-2010 and of the official Archive 2012-2013. Since 2005 he has led the Slovene Government’s Commission on Concealed Mass Graves. He is a Board member of the Gorenjski Museum in Kranj, where he curated an exhibition on Dr Sirc’s life and work.


Jože Dežman
LJože Dežman at home in Slovenia with lecture testimonial and House of Lords plate - thank you gifts from the CRCE


POST-COMMUNIST ECONOMIES


Articles in the summer issue include: The All-Russian National Front – for Russia: a new actor in the political and economic landscape by Silvana Malle; Ukraine conflict, economic-military power balances and economic sanctions by Christopher Mark Davis; and by Gregory Brock, Creative destruction on the Chechen frontier? www.tandf.co.uk/journals


THE RUSSIA LECTURE

Lisl Biggs-Davison met several friends and colleagues at this annual event at Chatham House.  “Russian Society and the Economic Turning Point” was the subject, delivered by Mikhail Dmitriev – a long-time friend,  now President of the New Economic Growth Consulting Group . He was Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade in Russia some years ago.




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