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The Institute of World Policy held the presentation of the “Street University” – the exhibition of cartoons “Ukraine as seen by neighboring countries”, created as a part of the project “Ukraine’s Soft Power: The tool for effective foreign policy” on September 24-25, 2011 at Kreshchatyk street.At the exhibition the experts of the IWP talked to the guests of the street exhibition, introducing the policy paper “Ukraine’s Soft Power: A tool for effective foreign policy”, in which the perceptions of the Ukraine in neighboring countries, Moldova, Belarus, Poland, Georgia, Russia and Romania, are studied.
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The main topics of the cartoons were the European integration of Ukraine, gas conflict, friendship and tensions in relations with neighbours, dynamic Ukrainian pop-culture.

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The exhibition was actively discussed by the guests of the event, so this social-political event appeared to be more interesting than any other cultural events that took place in the Kreshchatyk street that day.
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Andriy Klyuyev, first Vice-minister of Ukraine and Mikhail Brodskyy, representative of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on economic deregulation visited the exhibition
People’s reaction to the cartoons was different, but most of the visitors kept smiling when they recognized the popular stereotypes depicted by the cartoonists.
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Kateryna Zarembo, Deputy director of the Institute of World Policy and Roland Kovacz, UNITER director.

The event was held within the framework of the project: “Ukraine’s Soft Power: A tool for effective foreign policy”, which is implemented by the Institute of World Policy with the support of Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER) project funded by USAID and implemented by Pact in Ukraine.

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IWP team

Photo by Natalia Sagalata