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At the beginning of the 1990s, to support the work of Federal Commissioners in accordance with the Law on Documents of the GDR State Security, five regional commissioners in each of the former states of East Germany were appointed. The Commissioner for Berlin has released a series of publications, advised citizens as well as the administration and has offered seminars on civic education.

The decision to establish the Research Institute and Archives for the History of the Hungarian Regime Change (RETÖRKI)  was made by the Hungarian Government in 2013 [Government Decree 83/2013 (III. 21.)]. In this decree, the Government specified the tasks of the Institute, which operates as a budgetary institution under the supervision of the Prime Minister’s Office. The aims of the Institute are to discover preludes to the change of regimes in h (1989-1990), present the social and political conditions of the socialist period, establish a chronology of the change of regimes, and examine the present the changes of regimes in the neighbouring countries. The Institute collects and preserves sources and private documents relevant to the changes of regimes.

The Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center was established in 2013 with the aim of promoting Hungarian photography. The Hungarian state purchased Robert Capa’s estate in 2008. The Capa Center is located in Budapest, Nagymező street 8 built by art collector and patron Lajos Ernst in 1912, and until the opening of the Capa Center, the building housed the Ernst Museum.