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Institute of World Policy visited Mykolaiv

02:26 PM 12-2-2015

On February 11, the Institute of World Policy held a number of public events on security issues and European integration of Ukraine in Mykolaiv.At the invitation of the IWP, ten journalists from all over Ukraine arrived to Mykolaiv to participate together with their Mykolaiv colleagues in the workshop “How to Write Interesting Articles about the EU?”
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IWP invited Katerina Safarina, journalist of the Czech daily newspaper «Lidové noviny», to act as a moderator of the seminar.
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After the seminar, the journalists took part in the meeting of Strategic Discussion Club “The EU, NATO…What will Ensure Ukraine’s Security?”. Mykolaiv became the fourth Ukrainian regional center where the IWP organized such public discussion on security issues. Last year, meetings of the Strategic Discussion Club were held in Kharkiv, Kyiv and Odessa.
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At the invitation of the IWP, leading Ukrainian experts and diplomats of the EU member states had specially arrived to Mykolaiv to participate in the public debate on the strategic issues of Ukraine’s security. Among the speakers were: Ambassador of France to Ukraine Alain Remy, Deputy Head of Mission of the British Embassy in Ukraine Martin Day, Military Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Ukraine Mindaugas Kviklis, Counsellor at Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ukraine Richard Scarborough, Director of military programs at the Razumkov Center Mykola Sungurovskiy, Chair of the Board of the Center for Strategic Studies Pavlo Zhovnirenko.
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Alain Remy, Ambassador of France to Ukraine, and Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy
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Mindaugas Kviklis, Military Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Ukraine
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Martin Day, Deputy Head of Mission of the British Embassy in Ukraine
After the meeting of SDC the experts and diplomats of the EU member states were invited to talk with students of Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University.
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During the visit to Mykolaiv the IWP also organized a working lunch. The invited experts and diplomats used this opportunity to have informal conversations with local experts and public figures.
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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the IWP, at the regional TV channel TRK “NIS TV”.
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