COK hosts the 16th Free-Market Road Show
On Tuesday 20 May, COK hosted the annual Free-Market Road Show, for the sixteenth time, once more at Zagreb School of Economics and Management.
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COK commemorating 80th anniversary of Bleiburg massacre
On Thursday 15 May, at 7.00 pm, our board attended the Počasni Bleiburški Vod Commemorative Academy, as well as the 80th commemoration of Bleiburg in Bleiburg itself the following day.
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1945 in Zagreb: Liberation or Enslavement?
The continued use of the word “Liberation” (Oslobođenje) for what occurred in Zagreb eighty years ago, when Partisan forces took control of the city, is intellectually indefensible. Robin Harris describes why in his latest text.
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Remarks by Robin Harris at a Round Table on Croatian Missing Persons from the Homeland War hosted in London by the British Foreign Policy Group
Robin Harris, President of COK, was one of the four participants at a round table held in London on the Croatian Disappeared. Read the entire text, which discusses the role of the Western policy and the Programme of a Greater Serbia in the massacres that happened.
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Party Games at the Feast of St Blaise, Dubrovnik 1945.
The Feast of St Blaise in Croatia is primarily recognised as the feast-day of Dubrovnik’s patron saint. In 1945, it was seemingly allowed by the Communist Party, once the public events were out of the way, terror ensued.
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COK – Our History and our Plans
The Centre for the Renewal of Culture (COK) was founded in 2009. It is based in Zagreb, Croatia. As the name suggests, the assumption behind its activity is that it is a country’s culture, not just the parties and politicians who run public affairs, that ultimately matters. This culture needs […]
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2024!
The Croatian Centre for the Renewal of Culture (COK) wishes you a Happy and Blessed Christmas and a prosperous New Year in 2024! In memory of what was endured under Communist Yugoslavia, and acknowledgment of what is still experienced by Christians in many parts of the world, we include with […]
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The Myth of “Hitler’s Pope”
by Robin Harris After years of noisy public pressure, the archives relating to the reign of Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) were officially opened to researchers in March 2020. Since then, remarkably little has been heard of them. This is not surprising, because documentation of the most controversial period – […]
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STEPINAC’S FEAST DAY – excellent lecture from Robin Harris
In the Center for the Renewal of Culture (COK) Robin Harris has delivered a recorded lecture in Croatian language on the commemoration day of the blessed Alojzije Stepinac who by general agreement among Croatian Catholics should get his well-deserved canonization. You can view the lecture here. This is mainly […]
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The Freedom Variant – FMRS Zagreb 2022
If the last two years have taught us anything, it is that many people are thirsting for new ideas to handle crises and emerge from gridlock. We are proud to say that the FMRS® was ahead of the game in making an almost seamless transition to online events, discussing innovative […]
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