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One of the central questions of the transition from communist regime to democracy in Bulgaria was the question of what should be done with the archives of communist state security. In contrast to the countries of Central Europe, the initial energy was not sufficient to bring about their opening. In the 1990s this question disappeared from the political agenda. The demand for opening up the archives did not disappear completely; it was supported by non-governmental organizations and journalists. The public pressure, reinforced by the demands of the EU in the accession negotiations led at the end of 2006 to the adoption of a law decision on the use of archival materials, and in 2007 the Commission was established.

The Commission was quick to gain confidence by revealing the names of those who had worked for the State Security, beginning with the political elite of the transitional period, with influential social groups such as the media, churches and religious communities. Another important success of the Commission is that it has succeeded in gathering documents on the former structures of state security and bringing them together in a separate archive administered by the Commission.

The rich materials are processed and published in thematic documentary collections containing the facsimile of documents. Up to now (April 2018), 46 thematic collections have been issued, each of which can be defined as a collection of documents.

A kerület a XVI. században, a kálvinizmus Felső-Magyarországon való terjedésének köszönhetően jött létre, de nem alkotott szorosan egységes testületet, mert a püspöki hivatal felállításának évtizedekig útját állotta az egri püspökség fennállása. Csak az 1735-ös bodrogkeresztúri konvent után választottak püspököt. A négy egyházmegyéből (borsodi, abaúji, zempléni, ungvári) 1799-ben hetet szerveztek úgymint az abaújit, tornait, gömörit, felsőborsodít, alsóborsodit, alsózemplénit és ung-felsőzemplénit, melyek közül az utolsó kettévalasztatván, 1850-tõl nyolc egyházmegyéből állt a kerület. Az 1920-as trianoni békediktátum után öt egyházmegye (abaúji, gömör-tornai, felsőborsodi, alsóborsodi, alsózempléni) maradt Magyarországon, a többi a szlovenszkói tiszáninneni kerülethez került. A területi visszacsatolások következtében 1939-ben majdnem teljessé vált az egyházkerület a régi nyolc egyházmegyéjével. 1945-ben visszatértek az 1939 előtti rendszerhez. Az egyházkerület 1952-ben beolvadt a tiszántúliba, 1957-ben ismét önálló lett, de már az 1952-ben létrehozott egyházmegyékkel (hevesi, borsodi, abaúji, zempléni). Ma az egyházkerület az abaúji, borsod-gömöri, egervölgyi és zempléni egyházmegyékből áll.

It was after the Velvet Revolution in the year 1989 that possibilities arose for the creation of CU in Slovakia. The Slovak bishops endeavoured to form a Faculty of Pedagogy which would educate Catholic teachers. The charter of the Pedagogical Institute of St. Andrew in Ružomberok was signed on 29 June 1995, in Dolná Krupá, and the first director was prof. RNDr. Jozef Ďurček, CSc.

The Academic Council of the University of Trnava created a Catechetical-pedagogical Faculty of St. Andrew (KPF) in 1996, through the transformation of the Pedagogical Institute of St. Andrew. The KPF was incorporated into the University of Žilina in 1997. Its statute, with the right of Church audit, as is usual for theological faculties, was registered at the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic. The first deans of KPF were prof. RNDr. Jozef Ďurček, Csc. (1996-1998) and prof. RNDr. Pavol Kluvánek, CSc. (1999-2000).

Later, on the basis of KPF, CU came into existence. The Law of the National Council of the Slovak Republic from 10 May 2000, concerning the establishment of the Catholic University in Ružomberok (CU) (this is the official name), established the creation of CU from 1 April 2000, with two faculties: a Faculty of Pedagogy and a Faculty of Philosophy. The Faculty of Theology, with its seat in Košice, was established on 1 July 2003, and the fourth, the Faculty of Health, on 1 July 2005. Although Law 167/2000 created CU as a non-governmental university, with the Law of the National Council of the Slovak Republic about universities, CU became a public university with religious character from 1 April 2002. 

The Center for Contemporary Art was created by transformation from the original Soros Center for Contemporary Art Prague (SCSU Prague), which was founded in 1992. The Center was founded by the Foundation for Contemporary Art. During the ten years it was financially supported by George Soros, the Center created a large library of five exhibitions (three of which feature the Center on their site as pilot in their fields, namely the Orbis fictus (1996) - the first Czech exhibition (1997/8) and New Engagement (2002). Since 1997 the Center has organized 160 exhibitions of work by young artists, mainly in the Regional Hall and Galerie Jelení Gallery, and the Center also tries to provide foreign visits for artists. In 1994 it was one of the founding members of the Res Artis Residential Resident Center. As part of the ArtsLink project, Czech artists and curators were sent to internships to the United States. So far, the Center has awarded scholarships to about two hundred foreign artists in the Czech Republic. Since 1995 it has been able to send dozens of Czech artists abroad, mostly due to the Financial Trust for Mutual Understanding.

In 1997, the Center opened three studios on Jelení Street in Prague and from 1998 to 2002 rented Čimelice Chateau for exhibition purposes.