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Institute of World Policy prepared the publication “Ukraine’s “Soft Power” in the European Union: Results of the 1st Euro Exit Poll”, based on the opinion poll.IWP decided to find out if the Euro 2012 was a successful project for Ukraine from the point of view of European integration. To this end, ISP ordered a sociological survey among EU citizens who visited Ukraine during the championship finals for the GfK Company. The survey was conducted in the four hosting cities of the Euro 2012 (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Lviv) on the exits from the stadiums.
The vast majority of respondents – 84, 64% – had never visited Ukraine before. Most of them (79.58%) do not have friends, relatives or business partners in Ukraine. That is why, for the vast majority of European fans Ukraine had really became a true incognito.
The results of the survey in English can be found here.
The IWP project “Ukraine’s Soft Power in the European Union” was supported by the “National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER)” project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Pact Ukraine.

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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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

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.

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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Photo by Natalia Sagalata