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Political Disinformation and Hate Speech on Facebook: the Attitude of Young Armenians Towards Modern Cyber Challenges
Published 2022-05-01“… This research explores political disinformation and hate speech on Facebook with particular stress on the attitude of the Armenian young population after Velvet revolution in Armenia. The empirical results find that cyber disinformation and hate speech in Armenia are mainly provoked and encouraged by two general components; political and social. …”
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A Concise History of the Greek Catholic Church in Slovakia Following the Fall of the Communist Regime Historical and Social Excursus in the Years 1989 - 2002
Published 2017-01-01“…The purpose of this paper is to present a concise historical and wider societal development of the Greek Catholic Church in Slovakia, or more precisely in Czechoslovakia, in the years 1989 - 2002. The Velvet revolution of 1989 triggered a collapse of the totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia, bringing positive changes for the Greek Catholic Church, too. 40 years of the Greek Catholic Church persecution in Slovakia had come to an end and the Church could finally seize the opportunity to fully rehabilitate and develop their activities in all spheres of life. …”
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Dealing with the Violent Past: Transitional Justice and Political Culture in Liberia and the Czech Republic in a Comparative Perspective
Published 2016-05-01“…The Czechoslovak communist regime’s record of violence and repressions, starting with the “show trials” of the 1950s, was followed by the persecution of dissidents and other groups. After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, national reconciliation, rather than radical decommunisation was at the order of the day. …”
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Whirlpool Slovakia: Leader in Whirlpool Worldwide Network
Published 2018-09-01“…The fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution, and many other similar events ultimately led to the breakup of the Soviet Union and the opening of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) from a planned economy, modeled after the former Soviet Union, to a free market economy. …”
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The Connection between Motulko, the writer, and a movement of Catholic Modernism in the context of literary critique
Published 2015-09-01“…Literary critics noticed his connection with them, but due to the nuances of the period, their commentaries were first considered too universal and then labelled as socially undesirable. After the Velvet Revolution in November 1989, they were often formulated only based on an explicitly specified analogy. …”
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La revolución de terciopelo y el movimiento intelectual checolovaco
Published 1997-01-01“…Kundera, Klima, Vaculík, Hrabal y Skvorecky, formaron parte del grupo de disidentes que hicieron posible el cambio</p><p>The revolution that took place in Czechoslovakia in 1989, is known as the «Velvet revolution» for the lack of violence involved to attain democracy. …”
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On the Threshold of Mystery: Tomáš Halík on Cultural Witness in an Age of Uncertainty and Change
Published 2023-03-01“…As an academic at Charles University (founded 1348) and a Catholic priest in the “Academic Parish of Prague”, Halík played an important role during and following the collapse of Marxism in Czechoslovakia in the “Velvet Revolution” of November—December 1989, even being mentioned as a possible successor to Czech President Václav Havel, while at the same time offering reflections on religious engagement with a complex and changing secular culture. …”
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Study of sermon literature
Published 2023-01-01“…Other fields of research – besides theology – started focusing on Slovak homiletic literature after the Velvet Revolution when religious genres started enjoying greater scholarly interest. …”
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Ambient Air Quality in the Czech Republic: Past and Present
Published 2020-02-01“…The review is arranged into three main parts: (1) the time period until the Velvet Revolution of 1989, (2) the transition period of the 1990s and (3) the modern period after 2000. …”
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An Unorthodox Euro-federalist: Miloš Zeman’s Changing Discourse on European Integration
Published 2023-10-01“…Together with his predecessors Václav Havel and Václav Klaus, Zeman symbolises the period of democratic transition and consolidation after the Velvet Revolution and, as prime minister from 1998–2002 and president from 2013–2023, he co-formulated Czech European politics. …”
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Język polityków czeskich jako przykład mieszania kodów językowych w oficjalnych sytuacjach komunikacyjnych
Published 2021-12-01“… The Language of Czech Politicians as an Example of Mixing Language Codes in Official Communication Situations The topic of this article is the language of politicians from two different cultural and linguistic circles that were active in politics after the Velvet Revolution (1989): Miloš Zeman and Karel Schwarzenberg. …”
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Rethinking the Non-resilience of Trade Unions in Armenia: How to Protect Social Rights and Freedoms of Workers?
Published 2022-05-01“… This article analyzes the non-resilience nature of the social partnership of labor relations in Armenia after the Velvet Revolution and the legitimate change of public authority in 2018. …”
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On the threshold of mystery: Tomáš Halík on cultural witness in an age of uncertainty and change
Published 2023“…As an academic at Charles University (founded 1348) and a Catholic priest in the “Academic Parish of Prague”, Halík played an important role during and following the collapse of Marxism in Czechoslovakia in the “Velvet Revolution” of November—December 1989, even being mentioned as a possible successor to Czech President Václav Havel, while at the same time offering reflections on religious engagement with a complex and changing secular culture. …”
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The anthropological construction of Czech identity: academic and popular discourses of identity in 20th century Bohemia
Published 2015“…<p>Through close textual analysis of 20<sup>th</sup> century Czech anthropological texts from the Revivalist and Socialist periods and contemporary social research conducted after the Velvet Revolution, I demonstrate certain prominent discourses of identity developed in early Bohemian anthropology and their continuities in present day popular discourses. …”
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Conceptualization of Change
Published 2023-11-01“…Filmed in Prague, with the integration of archive material that is mostly related to the 1989 Velvet Revolution, the essay unpacks the significatory complexity of change, mapping the diversity of meanings that have been allocated to this notion. …”
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European Union Policy in the South Caucasus after the Karabakh War of 2020
Published 2022-04-01“…The democratization of the local political regimes also failed, despite the proEuropean position of Georgia and the velvet revolution in Armenia. As a result of the Armenian-Azerbaijani war of 2020, Russian and Turkish troops entered the South Caucasus, and Russia, Turkey, and Iran started acting as peace mediators. …”
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The Influence of Armenian Elite Groups on Relations with Russia after the Power Transition
Published 2019-12-01“…The authors are convinced that it was not a revolution, though called a “velvet revolution”, but a change of the elite groups. The political system remains as it was, institutions have not been demolished or upgraded. …”
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Formation of Czech-Slovak Relations during the 25 years after the division of the federation
Published 2019-04-01“…Previous constitutional experience influenced the emerging state institutions and the new constitution of Czechoslovakia after the events of the velvet revolution of 1989. Systemic breakdown of social and political relations was carried out in a restless atmosphere, and led to the division of the country in a «soft» and legitimate way. …”
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Erinnerungskultur im Wandel? Tschechische Orte der Erinnerung an die antideutsche Nachkriegsgewalt
Published 2023-09-01“…It was only the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that paved the way for both academic discussion and public commemoration of those tragic events. …”
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Citizens local political participation in the Czech Republic: rural-urban comparison
Published 2007-01-01“…The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 in the former Czechoslovakia opened the way to the renewal of the democratic political system. …”
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