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Institute of World Policy has presented the seventh annual ranking of “Top-10 Ukraine’s Promoters in the World 2014.”To certain extent, the rating of 2014, which is traditionally based on survey conducted among Ukrainian and foreign experts, is unique. Eight out of ten names present in this year’s top ten, have appeared there for the first time; only two have remained in the list since the last rating: Dalia Grybauskaite and Carl Bildt. The regular winners of our rating – the Klitschko brothers, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Victor Pinchuk, and Stefan Fule were not included into this year’s top ten, although the formal evaluation criteria remained unchanged:

• a continuous reference to Ukrainian subject area;

• promotion of Ukraine from the international platform, within the frames of international conferences, in foreign mass media, etc.,

• a continuous assistance for European integration of Ukraine.

However, due to the annexation of Crimea and Russia’s war against Ukraine at Donbas, another informal criterion has emerged: public assertion of Ukraine’s position on the international arena in the diplomatic, information and intellectual war initiated by Russia. This very criterion has become a decisive one in expert poll held traditionally in the form of assessment on a 1 to 10 point scale. According to the results of voting by 45 experts,the winner is the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, who, perhaps, has been declaring her position in a most clear and loud way.

The complete text of the publication is available here.

1 – Dalia Grybauskaite, the President of Lithuania, 275 points
2 – Carl Bildt, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden (2006-2014), member of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of World Policy, 255 points
3 – John McCain, the U.S. Senator, member of the Republican party, 216 points
4- Timothy Snyder, the Professor of History at Yale University, 165 points
5 – Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, 157 points
6 – Angela Merkel, the Federal Chancellor of Germany, 154 points
7 – George Soros, the founder of the Open Society Foundation, international philanthropist, 150 points
8 – Joseph Biden, Vice President of the US, 129 points
9 – Robert Menendez, the US Senator, member of the Democratic Partу, 123 points
10 – Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada, 107 points

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The results of the expert poll were presented by Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the IWP, Vadym Karasyov, expert of the ranking, and Sergiy Solodkyy, First Deputy Director of the IWP.
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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the IWP, and Sergiy Solodkyy, First Deputy Director of the IWP.
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Vadym Karasyov, expert of the ranking, political scientist
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Pavlo Zhovnirenko, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic Studies, and George Zakarashvili, Deputy Ambassador of Georgia to Ukraine
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Mykhailo Gonchar, President of the Centre for Global Studies “Strategy XXI”
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