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Viktor Shlinchak, Head of the Institute of World Policy’s Supervisory Council, delivered a speech at the International conference “Parliamentary elections in Ukraine, will they become a step to Europe?”, which was held in Warsaw. The conference was organized by the Institute of Ukrainian policy, the Foundation ´Ukrainian politics´ and the Studium for East European Studies at Warsaw University.Viktor Shlinchak, Head of the Institute of World Policy’s Supervisory Council, delivered a speech at the International conference “Parliamentary elections in Ukraine, will they become a step to Europe?”, which was held in Warsaw. The conference was organized by the Institute of Ukrainian policy, the Foundation ´Ukrainian politics´ and the Studium for East European Studies at Warsaw University.

The conference was attended by Ukrainian politicians, such as People’s Deputies Andriy Shevchenko (BYUT-Batkivshchyna), Yulia Lyovochkyna (Party of Regions), Oleh Zarubinskiy (Lytvyn’s Bloc) and famous experts – Kost’ Bondarenko ( Head of the Executive Board of the Institute of Ukrainian Policy), Yenhen Kopat’ko (President of the «R&B Group»), Volodymyr Fesenko (Head of the Executive Board of the Center for Applied political Studies “Penta”), Oleksandr Chernenko (Head of the Ukrainian voters’ committee), and Serhiy Rakhmanin (deputy editor-in-chief of the “Mirror of the Week” Weekly).

In his speech Viktor Shlinchak emphasized “the separation lines between Ukrainian authorities and opposition has been slowly, as each party in power in Ukraine tends to be an authoritarian one.” “On the one hand – he continued, – ruling coalition can not boast with efficient reforms, while, on the other hand, opposition has not come up with more effective development programs. All they do is racing for power. Opposition frequently plays according to the agenda written by Yanukovych’s Administration.”

Head of the IWP’s Supervisory Board also stated that “although society does expect the new faces in power, it does not come up and does not support new leaders. Authorities, as well as opposition, are also not interested in new leaders. Electoral ratings of both power and opposition are not growing. The majority of voters does not accept either former or current parties in power. However, one should admit that there are no preconditions for renovation of political configuration in the Parliament. It’s a shame. Enlargement of political parties can lead to polarization of the party system of Ukraine, where the Party of Regions with its satellites will be the one polar, while BYUT with its satellites will be on the opposite one.”

Pavel Kowal, Member of the European Parliament, Head of the EU’s Delegation to Ukraine-EU Committee for Parliamentary Cooperation talks on Ukraine’s European integration prospects at the Media Club of the Instiute of World PolicyTranscript of the discussion is available in Russian only.
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Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the IWP and Pawel Kowal, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the EP Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee

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Andriy Zhygulin, “5 channel”, Victor Shlinchak, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the IWP, Serhii Tereshko, Administration of the President of Ukraine

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Pawel Kowal
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Vitaliy Portnikov
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Alyona Getmanchuk and Pawel Kowal
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Photo by Natalia Sagalata

Publication was prepared by the Institute of World Policy as a result of the First Ukraine – Russia – NATO Forum.The First Ukraine – Russia – NATO Forum “Cooperation with NATO: Benefits for Ukraine and Russia” was organized by the Institute of World Policy in partnership with Moscow Carnegie Center and co-supported by NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine and NATO Information Office in Russia. It brought together leading Ukrainian, Russian and European experts to discuss a new vision of the relations between Kyiv, Moscow and NATO.

The full text of the paper is here.

The videoconference Kyiv-Moscow “Elections-2012: implications for Russia and the region” was held at IWP on March 14, 2012.The speakers in Moscow were Irina Prokhorova, Editor-in-Chief of the “Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie” Magazine and co-founder of Mikhail Prokhorov Fund and Nikolay Petrov, Chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center Society and Regions Program and Alexey Malashenko, expert of the Moscow Carnegie Center.
The event is co-organized by the Institute of World Policy and Carnegie Moscow Center.