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On September 21st, IWP held a panel discussion with Vytautas Landsbergis, MEP, former Speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament. The topic of the conversation was “Key Challenges in EU-Ukraine relations on the eve of parliamentary elections.”Professor Landsbergis underscored that Ukraine is a crucial country for implementing the idea of the united Europe. He stressed that Lithuania will support European orientation of Ukrainian people, “Lithuania will support Ukraine in its choice of European direction.”

At the same time, the member of European Parliament expressed his concern over the events associated with the case of Yulia Tymoshenko, which, in his opinion, indicates the selectivity of the Ukrainian judicial system and the lack of the rule of law. Professor Landsbergis avowed that the European Parliament is the institution that does not make such judgments such as “guilty or not guilty,” but its vital function is to be an opinion-maker especially on the issues of human rights. Professor Landsbergis stated that European criticism nevertheless was taken into account by the Ukrainian politicians and fostered some positive alterations in the case of Yulia Tymoshenko.

Among other problems that, according to Professor Landsbergis, prevail on the Ukrainian political scene and prevent the democratization process in the country are lack of visionaries and prevalence of revanchist moods within opposition that could hinder peaceful transition of power within the country.

Vytautas Landsbergis also touched upon issues of geopolitical processes that take place in the region and the role of the Russian Federation, which in his opinion still regards Ukraine as its “backyard” and executes power politics in the region.

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On September 12th 2012, Institute of World Policy and NATO Liaison Office in Ukraine with the support of Estonia, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, and Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces held an International Forum “Ukraine’s non-bloc policy in the European context.”It was carried out in the framework of the NATO-Ukraine Partnership Network for Civil Society Expertise Development under the patronage of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and with the support of Institute of World Policy. Top-experts from Austria, Great Britain, Estonia, Germany, Norway, Poland, United States of America, Hungary, Finland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden and other countries were involved in the discussions.

Kostintyn Gryshchenko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, addressed participants with the key-note speech.The opinion on non-bloc policy of Ukraine was also expressed by Oleksandr Medvedko, First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, LtGen Hryhoriy Sakovskyi, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Aleksandrovych, Director of the Department of International Security and Disarmament of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Oleksandr Chalyi, former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Leonid Kozhara, Deputy Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Markus Meckel, Senior Adviser, former Mininster for Foreign Affairs of Germany and Volodymyr Ohryzko, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine have also joined discussions.

Among Honorary Guests were Pertti Torstila, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Dr. Hans Widmer, former Member of the Parliament of Switzerland, Dr, Gerhard Jandl, Director for Security Policy of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Austria, Inger Buxton, Deputy Director of the Security Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden.

The vision of the future security of Ukraine was also shared by Roger Ingebrigsten, State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of Norway, Jiří Schneider, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and prof.Adam Rotfeld, Former Foreign Minister of Poland.

IWP held eighth GeorgianCinema Club, during the show was presented documentary movie ” Russian lessons” (Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Kinska, 2009)The film is dedicated to the tragic events of August 2008 when Russian troops occupied part of Georgia.

The documentary film “Russian lessons ” was first presented in St. Petersburg, end then demonstrated in Georgia, France and the United States.

The film shows all versions of the August conflict: Russian, Georgian, Ossetian as well as Vladimir Putin’s and Angela Merkel’s, and of Russian and Georgian military command.

This event is supported by the Embassy of Georgia in Ukraine.
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Leonid Litra, visiting research fellow of the
IWP, Sergii Solodkyi, Deputy Director of the IWP, Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the IWP, Tatiana Sylina, a columnist for the International Department of the newspaper “Dzerkalo Tyzhnya”, Vlolodymer Ogryzko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007-2009), Victor Shlinchak, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the IWP, Gela Dumbadze, the embassy of Georgia in Ukraine
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Yaropolk Tymkiv, an expert on public policy, program manager of the UNITER project, Natalia Sokolenko, community activist
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Sergii Solodkyi, Alyona Getmanchuk, Tatiana Sylina
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Victor Shlinchak, Gela Dumbadze
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Mykola Veresen, famous TV-presenter
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Natalia Sokolenko
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Tatiana Sylina and Volodymer Ogryzko
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Photo by Natalia Sahalata