After this time, as the NGOs government-oriented structure became unstable, cracks appeared in the movement. New, independent NGOs began to form, replacing the former government-oriented agencies. One source of division in the movement is the conflict in orientations among the organizations that have emerged from beneath the facade of official unanimity of opinion. Some are communitarians, some Westernizers, some believers in national socialism, some nationalists, some democrats. Last year saw periodic bursts of integration among certain NGOs, but it is still not clear which direction these processes will take.
Progress is slow and the government remains the only clear center of activity.
NGO activists look to the government as an interlocutor and opponent, but the Third Sector has not formed into an opposition to the government. The legal uncertainty that reigns in the republic, the sluggishness and apathy of civil structures and the internal divisiveness and apoliticism of most of the Third Sector have slowed the NGO sector's institutionalization as a democratic segment of society. The public continues to view the NGO sector as unimportant and not useful as a source of assistance or model of grassroots civil initiative. The paucity of funding resources and the absence of economic and legal conditions conducive to philanthropy make NGOs directly dependent on international assistance programs. An understanding of NGOs' role as a vitally important ingredient of democracy comes to us from foreign countries in the form of sponsorship support, grants, study programs and so on.