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YEPP SEMINAR
DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IN UKRAINE.
1991-2011:
RESULTS OF 20 YEARS.
09 SEPTEMBER 2011
Verhovna Rada of Ukraine
10.00-10.30Welcome speech of Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Parliament
10.30-12.00 Panel discussion: “Domestic Dimension: Democracy and Rule of Law”
(moderated by Vladislav Synyahovskyy, journalist, activist of civic movement “STOP Censorship”, representative of YEPP in European Youth Forum in 2001)
Nico Lange – Director of Kyiv office of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko – Chairman of “Our Ukraine” party's political council, former Chief of Security Service of Ukraine (2006-2010).
Victoria Sjumar – Director of the Institute of Mass Information, prominent Ukrainian journalist.
Ruslan Knyazevych – Member of Ukrainian Parliament (Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc), former member of The Central Election Commission of Ukraine (2004-2006).
12.00-12.30 Panel discussion: “Social Market Economy”
(moderated by Anna Derevyanko, Executive Director of the European Business Association):
Viktor Pynzenyk – Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine (1992-1993; 1996-1997) First Vice Prime Minister (1994-1995) Minister of Finance (2005-2006, 2007-2009), Honored Economist of Ukraine.
Natalia Korolevs’ka – Member of Ukrainian Parliament (Block of Yulia Tymoshenko), Chairwoman of Parliamentary Committee on issues of industrial and regulatory policy and entrepreneurship.
Yaroslav Zhalilo – Deputy Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, PhD on economic science, Honored Economist of Ukraine.
Igor Burakovsky – Director of Institute for Economic Research and Policy
Consulting, Professor of Economics at the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy".
Andriy Novak – Director of the Committee of Economists of Ukraine, PhD on economic science.
12.30-14.00 Coffee-break / Press Conference 14.00-15.00Lunch (buffet in the Parliament)
15.00-16.30 Panel discussion: “Regional and EU Dimension: Role of the EU in Democracy Development in Eastern Europe” (in English) (moderated by Ihor Zhovkva, Director of the Department for national projects,
State Agency of Ukraine for investment and national projects):
Maria Jurikova – Deputy Head of Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine.
Vasyl Filipchuk, – Head of EU relations department of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
Oleh Rybachuk – Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine on European Integration (Feb – Sept 2005), Chief of Staff to the President of Ukraine (2005-2006).
Iryna Solonenko – Head of the European Program of the International
Renaissance Foundation.
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