Author: Grigorij Mesežnikov | Journal of Democracy

Grigorij Mesežnikov is president and cofounder of the Institute for Public Affairs (IVO) in Slovakia. He is a regular contributor to Slovak and foreign media and served as key author of the report on Slovakia for Freedom House’s Nations in Transit series from 1998 to 2014.

July 2018, Volume 29, Issue 3

Explaining Eastern Europe: Slovakia’s Conflicting Camps

Grigorij Mesežnikov
Ol'ga Gyárfášová

The political turmoil following a journalist’s murder in Slovakia has revealed serious dangers to the country’s democratic institutions.