Government to cut back funding for Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes

Government austerity measures are set to hit the The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, an NGO tasked with understanding the Czech historical experiences of Nazism and Communism in particular. According to budget proposals by the government, by 2015, grants given to the Institute will decline by 17 million crowns, from 151.4 million to 134.7 million crowns. Under the plans, the reductions will kick in from next year, in which a 2.7 million crown decrease in funding is planned. The Institute was founded via a legal statute in 2007.

Author: Dominik Jůn