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IWP has held DVC with the director of Levada-Center Lev Gudkow

Institute of World Policy has conducted videoconference with Lev Gudkov, the famous sociologist, director of the leading think tank in Russia “Levada-Center”.the The main topic of this discussion was post-Soviet political culture, mentality and social affairs. Experts have focused on their peculiarities and specifications in comparison to European and Soviet values and standards. Lev Gudkov is one of the most prominent international experts in such issues.
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This videoconference was organized within the framework of the project “How to get rid of post-Sovietness?” that is being implemented by IWP in partnership with Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Tbilisi, Georgia) and Institute for Development and Social Initiatives “Viitorul” (Chisinau, Moldova) with support of Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation (the project of German Marshall Fund of the US) and with technical assistance of the US Embassy to Russia.
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Videoconference with George Friedman in IWP

The Institute of World Policy will has held the videoconference with George Friedman, famous American scholar, author of several bestsellers and founder of the private geopolitical intelligence corporation “Stratfor”.The topic of the discussion was “Geopolitics in post-crisis world: is there place for Ukraine?”
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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the IWP, Oksana Pylyavets, analyst of the IWP

IWP launched the first “Euro exit poll”

Institute of World Policy gave a start to the first “Euro exit poll” on June 11, 2012. The survey, commissioned by IWP, is conducted by GfK company as a part of “Soft Power of Ukraine in the EU and beyond” project.Football fans from various European states, which stay in Kiev, Kharkov, Lviv and Donetsk will share their impressions of Ukraine in political and foreign policy context. With the help of this large-scale survey the level of awareness of European guests of Ukraine’s political situation in will be determined, as well as their attitudes towards its foreign policy priorities. “Euro exit polls” are conducted at the exits of the stadiums in the Ukrainian cities hosting the finals of the championship.

The results of the survey together with the expert comments will be presented in Kiev after the final of Euro 2012. The “Soft Power of Ukraine in the EU and beyond” project is implemented under Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER) program which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Pact Inc.

Videoconference with Melanne Verveer was hold in IWP

The Institute has presented a project “Global Virtual Forum of Women-Leaders”. Implemented with support of “Internews”.The presentation has include the videoconference with the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer.

Videoconference with Melanne Verveer was hold in IWP

The videoconference with the US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer was held at the Institute of World Policy. Below its transcript is provided.The presentation has include the videoconference with the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer.

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Nataliya Korolevska, leader of the party “Ukraine – Forward!”, Alyona Getmanchuk, Directorof the IWP, Iryna Berezhna, MP
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Alyona Getmanchuk
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Nataliya Korolevska
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Iryna Berezhna
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Nataliya Novak, Deputy of Kyiv city council
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Olena Suslova, Director of Information Consultancy Women’s Center
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Ostap Semerak, MP
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Nataliya Korolevska

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Videoconference with Zbigniew Brzezinski in IWP

The videoconference with Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, famous American scholar, CSIS counsellor, national security adviser to the U.S. President, took place at the Institute of World Policy on May 30th, 2012.During a videoconference Dr. Brzezinski presented his new book “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power” and discussed with the Ukrainian expert community the issues raised in the book.

“Ambassadorial Quartet” at the Institute of World Policy

On June 6th 2012 the Institute of World Policy hosted a Media club, featuring the four United States Ambassadors – Amb. Steven Pifer, William Green Miller, Roman Popaduik, – former U.S. Ambassadors to Ukraine, and Amb. Keith Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania, who currently is Senior Associate in New European Democracies Project at Center for Strategic and International Studies.{2}
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IWP launching a long-term project “How to get rid of Post-Sovietness?”

The new long-term large-scale project “How to get rid of Post-Sovietness?” has been launched in the Institute of World Policy. It is being implemented by IWP in partnership with the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Tbilisi, Georgia) and the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives “Viitorul” (Chisinau, Moldova) with support of the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation of the German Marshall Fund of the US. National expert teams from Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine will be working on this project.The first project event took place on May 31, 2012. It was an expert discussion (“brainstorming”) on the methodology of the project and indicators of post-Sovietness in politics and social affairs that would be measured within the framework of the project. Experts from three participating countries took part in it.
Ukraine was represented by the professor of the Department for Ukrainian Language of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Larysa Masenko; the deputy director of the Institute of Sociology (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) Eugen Golovacha; the director of the Center for Applied Political Studies “Penta” Volodymyr Fesenko; the head of the Department for Social Psychology (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) Olena Zlobina and the political observer of the newspaper Weekly Mirror Volodymyr Kravchenko. The head of Resource Center of the NATO Depository Library for Georgia Teimuraz Kancheli and the deputy director of the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives Leonid Litra as heads of their national expert teams contributed to the discussion.
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Alyona Getmanchuk, director, Institute of World Policy
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Leonid Litra, deputy director, Institute for Development and Social Initiatives
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Eugen Golovacha, deputy director, Institute of Sociology (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
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Oksana Pyliavets, analyst, Institute of World Policy
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Zhanna Bezpiatchuk, analyst, Institute of World Policy
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Olena Zlobina, head of the Department for Social Psychology (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
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Teimuraz Kancheli, head of Resource Center of the NATO Depository Library for Georgia

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