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Institute of World Policy together with Prague Security Studies Institute for the second time held a roundtable aimed at contributing to a consolidation of security sector in Ukraine on 21 May.During the roundtable, participants discussed a broad range of issues related to strengthening transparency and accountability of the security sector during the information war and global experience of the local policing. The first discussion was held in December 2014.
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The experts agreed that human factor is crucial in ensuring the optimal functioning of security system. It concerns both the quality of human resources of law enforcement authorities and the permanent control over the actions of police officers from the local authorities.
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The round table was attended by leading Ukrainian and Czech security experts, including Jiří Schneider, Senior Fellow and Director of Special Projects at thePrague Security Studies Institute, Petr Pojman, Fellow of Prague Security Studies Institute, Dr. Oldrich Bures, Head of the Center for Security Studies, Michal Tosovšký, Director of the Policing Program of Open Society, and others.
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The debate was conducted under the so called «Chatham House rules.

Institute of World Policy in cooperation with the Slovak NGO «Euforion» has opened the International Exhibition of Political Cartoons in Kyiv on May 20, 2015.The main idea of the project is to present the political cartoon as a critical and independent genre by showing the works of premier European cartoonists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia, and the USA.

One of the most famous American cartoonists Daryl Cagle became a honor guest of the opening. Cagle is a founder of Cagle Cartoons, Inc, a political cartoon and column syndicate which distributes the work of newspaper editorial cartoonists and columnists from around the world to approximately 850 subscribing newspapers.

In Kyiv Daryl Cagle delivered three lectures on cartoon art and gave a professional workshop.
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President of Slovakia Andrej Kiska was among first visitors of the exhibition
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Lecture and workshop at the Kyiv National University of Taras Shevchenko
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Lecture at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture
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The project is conducted with the support of the International Visegrad Fund.

Institute of World Policy in partnership with Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine held the 2015 International Conference on Ukraine-EU relations on May 12.Conference Theme: Ukraine-EU: a Year after Signing of the Association Agreement

The conference, marking one-year anniversary of signing the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, brought together diplomats, politicians, researchers, public activists and journalists, engaged in the process of European integration of Ukraine.

The speakers on the second panel discussed introduction of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) between Ukraine and the EU.

The photos of the first panel discussion, dedicated to the political dimension of Ukraine-EU relations, can be found here.
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Natalia MYKOLSKA, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade – Ukraine’s Trade Representative
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Roman SHPEK, Chairman of the Independent Bankers Association of Ukraine, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the European Union (2000-2007)
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Simon SMITH, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Great Britain to Ukraine
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Taras KACHKA, Vice President for Strategic Development, American Chamber of Commerce, former member of the Ukrainian negotiating group to the EU, and Veronika MOVCHAN, Academic Director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting
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Mykhailo GONCHAR, President of the Center for Global Studies “Strategy XXI»
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Final remarks
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Viktor SHLINCHAK, Head of the Board, Institute of World Policy
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Roland KOVATS, Country Director in Ukraine, Pact
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The conference was organized within IWP’s “New European Policy: Filling the Awareness Gap” project supported by “Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms” (UNITER) project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Pact in Ukraine.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (ACC) provided informational support for the conference.

Institute of World Policy in partnership with Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine held the 2015 International Conference on Ukraine-EU relations on May 12.Conference Theme: Ukraine-EU: a Year after Signing of the Association Agreement

The conference, marking one-year anniversary of signing the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU, brought together diplomats, politicians, researchers, public activists and journalists, engaged in the process of European integration of Ukraine.

The speakers on the first panel gave an excellent analysis of a wide range of issues related to the political and security dimensions of Ukraine-EU cooperation.

The photos of the second panel discussion, dedicated to the economic dimension of Ukraine-EU relations, can be found here.

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Pavlo KLIMKIN, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
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Alyona GETMANCHUK, Director of the Institute of World Policy
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Jan TOMBINSKI, Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine
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Iryna HERASHCHENKO, Member of the Parliament, Chairman of the Committee on Issues of European Integration
At this year conference IWP introduced one innovation: the participantscould ask their questions not only after the speeches of speakers, but also before it.
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Vsevolod CHENTSOV, Director-General of the Directorate General for the European Union, MFA of Ukraine
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The participants were encouraged to comment on the speakers’ presentations and ask them questions in Twitter, using hashtag UAinEU. The tweets were shown on a big screen through TweetBeam program.
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Oleksandr SUSHKO, Co-chairman of the EU – Ukraine Civil Society Platform; research director at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation
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The conference was held within IWP’s “New European Policy: Filling the Awareness Gap” project supported by “Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms” (UNITER) project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Pact in Ukraine.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (ACC) provided informational support for the conference.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Ukrainian.

Institute of World Policy in partnership with CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Spain) organized two-day study visit of 27 European thought leaders – representatives of the best EU think tanks, editors, and leading journalists.The second day of the visit started with a public debate in the Ukrainian Media Crisis Center. The European experts briefly discussed media coverage of the Ukrainian events in their native countries, and named the factors affecting the position of EU governments regarding Ukrainian-Russian conflict.
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Marco Di Liddo, leading analyst at the Centre of International Studies (Italy), Gemma Poerzgen, famous German journalist, Tim Judah famous British journalist, Anton Bendarzsevszkij, director at the Hungarian Geopolitical Institute of Russia and Central Asia Studies, Corentin Brustlein, Head of the Deterrence and Proliferation program at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI).
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The European thought leaders learned about security situation in Ukraine directly from the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaichenko and his adviser Yevhen Marchuk.
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During the working lunch participants discussed the internal and security situation in Ukraine with the leading Ukrainian experts, including Oleksiy Melnyk, Co-director of Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes at Razumkov Centre, Dmytro Shulga, European Program Initiative Director at the International Renaissance Foundation.
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Mykhailo Honchar, President of the Centre for Global Studies “Strategy XXI”, told about energy security of Ukraine.
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Prof. Oleksiy Haran, Head of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’s Political Analysis School.
The participants got a unique opportunity to hear about the situation in Ukrainian regions directly from the experts and civil activists from Lviv, Dnipropetrovsk, Lugansk, Odesa, Donetsk and Kharkiv. The regional thought leaders came to Kyiv at the invitation of the IWP.
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The European experts met Viktoriya Bryndza, analyst at Promova (Lviv), political analyst Julia Bidenko (Kharkiv), journalist Denys Kazanskyy (Donetsk, Kyiv), political analyst Yuriy Raykhel (Dnipropetrovsk), civic activist Yevgeniya Zavaliy (Odessa) and Maria Zolkina, analyst at the Fund “Democratic Initiatives” (Lugansk, Kyiv).
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Meeting with Natalie Jaresko, Minister of Finance of Ukraine.
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Meeting with Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine.
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During working dinner our European delegation got acquainted with the activists of the civil initiative Reanimation Reform Package. Representatives of the initiative told the European experts about Ukrainian civil society efforts to reform Ukraine.
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Andriy Shevchenko, former MP of Ukraine, advocacy consultant at the Reanimation Reform Package
Daria Kaleniuk, Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, described the activities of Ukrainian civic society to expose corruption schemes and put corrupt officials behind bars.
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Lyubov Akulenko, Director of European Programs “Center UA”
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Photos from the first day of the working visit are available here

It was the second such visit, organized by the IWP. The first one took place in May, 2014.

The visit was supported by:

“Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms” (UNITER) project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Pact in Ukraine;

Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Ukraine;

“Initiative on the think tanks development in Ukraine”, operated by International Renaissance Foundation in partnership with the Think Tank Fund (TTF) and funded by the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine (SIDA).

Daria Gaidai, analyst at the Institute of World Policy, participated in the international panel discussion “Eastern Partnership Trends before Riga”, held in the premises of the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU in Brussels.During the event the results of “Important, Forgotten, or Irrelevant? Stakeholders´ Survey on Post-Vilnius Eastern Partnership” research project were presented. The project has been carried out by the Association for International Affairs in cooperation with the Institute of World Policy and seven other think-tanks, and an independent expert from Belarus. The study was supported by the International Visegrad Fund (IVF).
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IWP analyst Daria Gaidai summarised main trends and answers which the Ukrainian part of this survey provided.
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The project “Important, Forgotten, or Irrelevant? Stakeholders´ Survey on Post-Vilnius Eastern Partnership” focused on stances and visions of significant personalities from EaP partner countries and V4 member states towards the results and the further development of the EaP initiative. The acquired data can thus serve as an information basis for a subsequent analysis of the initiative’s functioning. By comparing different positions of the stakeholders from different Central and East European countries we can get a better understanding of the existing obstacles in mutual cooperation and communication processes. And last but not least we can learn more about the support for the initiative, its potential reform and strengthening of the more-for-more principle in the individual countries.
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Institute of World Policy in partnership with CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Spain) organized two-day study visit of 27 European thought leaders – representatives of the best EU think tanks, editors, and leading journalists.It was the second such visit, organized by the IWP. The first one took place in May, 2014.
«A year ago the IWP invited leading European analysts to Ukraine to give them first-hand information about situation in Ukraine, so they can help us to deliver the truth about Russian aggression. Our initiative received many positive feedbacks and attracted attention of the stakeholders both in Ukraine and EU member states. This time we have a big delegation of European thought leaders who came to Kyiv (from the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, and Hungary) to learn about the challenges that Ukraine faces today and dispel some myths, cultivated by Russian disinformation machine. Our primary goal is to create a powerful expert network in support of European and democratic Ukraine”, – Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy.
During the visit 27 European thought leaders met with the Ukrainian political leaders, members of parliament, leading Ukrainian political scientists and experts, regional leaders of public opinion from Donetsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, representatives of the civil society initiative Reanimation Reform Package, and others. Apart from it, the IWP organized a visit to the “museum of corruption” in the former residence of Viktor Yanukovych “Mezhyhirya”.

Participants of the visit: Anna Alonso Montes (editor-in-chief of Foreign Affairs, El Mundo), Luigi Ippolito (chief of the foreign desk, Corriere della Sera), Petr Kolář (civic activist, former Ambassador of Czech Republic to the USA, Russia), Lluís Bassets (Deputy Director, El País), Corentin Brustlein (research fellow, head of the Deterrence and Proliferation program, French Institute of International Relations), Boris Reitschuster (author of the political bestseller “Putins Demokratur, journalist), Steffen Dobbert (editor-in-chief, Zeit Online), Tim Judah (journalist, The Economist, New York Review of Books; author of several political bestsellers), Pietro Del Re (observer, La Republica), Kristof Bender (Deputy Chairman, European Stability Initiative), Anton Bendarzsevszkij (Director, Geopolitical Institute of Russia and Central Asia), Stefan Schocher (journalist, Foreign-Desk, Kurie), Kristi Raik (senior research fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs), .Emmanuel Grynszpan (correspondent, Le Parisien, Le Temps, La Presse), Frederic Pons (editor-in-chief, Valeurs Actuelles), Gilles Sengès (columnis, L’Opinion), André Eichhofer (journalist, Die Welt), Alexander Graef (fellow, University of St. Gallen, Institute of Political Science), Lucian Kim (journalist, Slate, Newsweek, Reuters, Die Zeit), Gemma Poerzgen (columnist, Frankfurter Rundschau, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung), Andreas Schwabe (CEE Research, Raiffeisen Bank International AG), András Deák (senior research fellow, Hungarian Institute of International Affairs), Nona Mikhelidze (senior researcher, Istituto Affari Internazionali), Carmen Claudín (senior research fellow, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs), and others

In the evening of April 19 the participants of the visit enjoyed their welcome drink and a meal in the company of the IWP team, partners and donors of the project.
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The study visit for the European thought leaders` began with a journey to the “museum of corruption” in “Mezhyhirya”. Famous Ukrainian journalist, author of TV Program on corruption “Schemes” Natalia Sidletska told EU experts and journalists about the major corruption schemes of the former president’s “family”.

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Then our European delegation met with the Head of the Presidential Administration Boris Lozhkin and his deputies Dmytro Shymkiv and Rostyslav Pavlenko.
During working lunch the participants of the visit discussed Ukraine’s internal situation with the Members of the Parliament Oleh Bereziuk, Pavlo Rizanenko, Ostap Semerak, Aliona Shkrum, and Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Lytvynenko.
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Meeting with Andriy Parubiy, First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
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Meeting with Refat Chubarov, Head of the Council of Representatives of the Crimean Tatar People, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine.
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Working dinner with Ukrainian opinion and decision leaders: Yevhen Bystrytsky, Executive Director of the International Renaissance Foundation, Oleksii Makeiev, Political Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Volodymyr Ogryzko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007-2009), Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta, First Deputy Minister of Culture of Ukraine (2014), Josef Zissels, Head, Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine.
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Photos from the second day of the working visit are available here.

The visit was supported by:

“Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms” (UNITER) project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Pact in Ukraine;

Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Ukraine;

“Initiative on the think tanks development in Ukraine”, operated by International Renaissance Foundation in partnership with the Think Tank Fund (TTF) and funded by the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine (SIDA).