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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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Institute of World Policy together with the “Caucasian House” held a round table: “Georgian Experience for Ukraine: Problems of Internally Displaced Persons and Tax Reform” on January 27, 2015 in Kyiv.The round table was organized within the project “Ukraine: Out of Crisis Through Dialogue”, implemented by the Caucasian House (Georgia) and Institute of World Policy with the support of the British Embassy in Ukraine.

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Giorgi Kanashvili, Executive Director of the Caucasian House, and Viktor Shlinchak, Head of the Board of the, Institute of World Policy
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Alla Cherednichenko, Head of the Department of citizenship, registration and work with the citizens from temporarily occupied territory of the Migration Service of Ukraine, and Julia Kharashvili, Chair of IDP Women Association Consent
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Oleksandra Dvoretskaya, coordinator of the project “Vostok SOS”, and Dmytro Pletchko, Associate Legal Officer of the UN Refugee Agency.
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Sergiy Solodkyy, First Deputy Director of the IWP, and Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the IWP
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Daria Gaidai, analyst of the IWP, and Illya Neshodovkiy, expert on tax reform of the civic initiative “Reanimation Reform Package

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Samson Uridia, Head of Foreign Relations Department of the Revenue Service of Georgia

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On January 26 the Institute of World Policy held a public discussion: “Ukraine-Russia: Conditions of Peaceful Coexistence”.Speakers:

Volodymyr Ohryzko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007-2009)

Georgij Kunadze, Deputy of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia (1991-1993), senior research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Science.

The even was organized within the project ” Ukraine: Out of Crisis Through Dialogue”, implemented by the Caucasian House (Georgia) and Institute of World Policy with the support of the British Embassy in Ukraine.
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Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the Institute of World Policy, participated in the European Neighbourhood Conference held in Berlin. The theme was ‘Towards a New European Neighbourhood Policy’.Organised by Bertelsmann Stiftung, the Conference aimed at discussing ways to reinforce the EU Neighbourhood Policy and at tackling the need to better respond to the aspirations of the EU and its neighbours given the new geopolitical realities.

Sessions were dedicated to the EU’s and the EU Neighbours’ expectations on the future of the ENP.

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Alyona Getmanchuk highlighted the main expectations that Ukraine has towards the EU and explained why the EaP has no strong support in Ukraine.

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“The EU must recognize that the Eastern Partnership has not adequately substituted for a membership perspective. The prospect of Ukraine’s membership in the EU could remove a very serious counterargument abused by the opponents of Ukraine’s pro-European course. Namely: “No one waits for us in the EU” and Ukrainians are perceived as slaves in EU member states.

That not a secret it was a serious question about the Eastern partnership’s added value for Ukraine from the very beginning. Ukraine agreed and even started negotiations on AA and visa liberalization before the EaP was launched. Ukraine was against package approach and was promoting the idea to put bilateral relations first. So in Ukraine’s case EaP played more the role of demotivator rather than a motivator since main achievements were reached on bilateral level.

Ukraine was right to some extent given the multispeed partnership we are witnessing today – for some countries EaP offers too much, for some its not enough. Its not hard to predict that the gap between associated countries willing to deepen their integration and not associated countries opposing it will increase.

What to do? Firstly, to increase bilateralism. Secondly, the EaP should address the real and the most burning issues – security and energy”.

Photos: Bertelsmann Stiftung.