Tbilisi. IDFI publishes the article "Archives and Conspiracy Theories: An Example of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church" by Mochil Metodiev, a Researcher of the Institute for Studies of the Recent Past, Bulgaria. 

‘Understandably, the expectations from the opening of the communist secret services archives are high. The society hopes that the archives will provide long-awaited answers on the communist regime and its collapse and that this step will lead to greater transparency of institutions, it will restore justice, and pave the way for meritocratic development of the new elites. All those hopes are understandable and reasonable. At the same time, the opening of the archives brings a number of unforeseen challenges. The main challenge is the possible discrepancy between the information, revealed in the archives, and the public convictions, already established during the early years of the transition. How do the public and institutions react when the revelations from the archives not only do not confirm but even contradict the already established perceptions?’ - We read in the article. 

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Source: The webpage of the organization