CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES, 10th Jubilee Publication of the CCC Center for Civil Communications entered the second decade of operation. Instead of publication that summarizes previous performance record, multitude of projects implemented and research analyses conducted, publications issued and changes encouraged and triggered with our committed work on greater transparency, accountability and responsibility on the part of state authorities, CCC’s team decided to celebrate this milestone differently. Namely, we asked several connoisseurs of affairs in each of our areas of operation, as distinguished and profiled experts, to make precise dissection of state-of-affairs from within, i.e. to present matters at this point in time in 2016. Areas covered by their analyses include: civil society, transparency, anticorruption, public spending and investigative journalism. Insights and analysis in said areas should serve us as ‘benchmarks’ or ‘baseline’ for further efforts and development in the years to come. In parallel with new challenges, the Center for Civil Communications will remain committed to building upon what has been achieved thus far: hundreds of measures were recommended with a view to improve situations in respective areas of operation; seventy research analyses were conducted and published; two hundred training sessions were organized and delivered for several thousand representatives of media, non-governmental organizations and public institutions; hundred publications were printed (research analyses, recommendations, policy briefs, manuals, etc.), etc. Throughout our years of operation, we directly monitored more than three thousand tender procedures; surveyed more than two thousand companies, thousands of citizens, civil society organizations and journalists; provided direct assistance to around six hundred microenterprises to...