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Ukraine's Choice
Europe or Russia?
Date: Friday, December 10, 2004
Time: 9:00 AM — 4:00 PM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
 
About This Event

The Ukrainian Supreme Court has decided: the run-off election was falsified and on December 26, Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych will face each other again in a repeat of the second round of the Ukrainian presidential elections. Will the winner, whoever he may be, re-unite the country? Can Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" be an example to follow for other countries in the region? The outcome will likely determine Ukraine's destiny for years to come. Will Ukraine opt for integration with the West or with the Commonwealth of Independent States? On International Human Rights Day, please join the New Atlantic Initiative at the American Enterprise Institute and our partners, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Freedom House, the International Republican Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, for a conference that seeks to assess Ukraine's geopolitical orientation after the presidential elections.

 
Agenda
8:45 a.m.

Registration and continental breakfast

     
9:00 Welcome: Radek Sikorski, executive director, NAI
  Introduction: Paula Dobriansky, under secretary of state for global affairs
    Oleh Shamshur, deputy minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine
9:30  Ukraine's Economy: Converging with the European Union or with the Common Economic Space?
  Speakers: Valery Pyatnyskyi, first deputy minister of economy and European integration of Ukraine
    Pawel Wolowski, director for Ukraine, Center for Eastern Studies in Warsaw
    Larysa Denysenko, program director, Transparency International–Kyiv office
    Oleksandr Sushko, director, Center for Peace, Conversion, and Foreign Policy of Ukraine
  Moderator: Donald Jensen, director of communications, RFE/RL
10:45 Break   
11:00 Successes and Failures of Ukraine’s Civil Society
  Speakers: Roman Kupchinsky, former director, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Broadcasting Service
    Vyacheslav Briukhovetsky, National University of Kyiv–Mohyla Academy
    Adrian Karatnycky, counselor and senior scholar, Freedom House
    Inna Pidluska, president, Europe XXI Foundation
    Vladimir Kara-Murza, cofounder, Free Choice 2008 Committee of Russia
Paula Schriefer, director of programs, Freedom House
  Moderator: Nadia Diuk, director for Central Europe and Eurasia, NED
12:45 p.m. Luncheon  
  Keynote
  Speaker: Representative Sander M. Levin, cochair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus
2:00 Ukraine's Armed Forces: On the Way to Join NATO?
  Speakers:  James Sherr, UK Defense Academy
    Igor S. Kozii, head, general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces, department for Euro-Atlantic integration
Major General Nicholas Krawciw, U.S. Army, retired
  Moderator: Radek Sikorski, executive director, NAI; resident fellow, AEI
3:00 A Geopolitical Assessment
Speakers: Oleh Rybachuk, chief of staff for Viktor Yushchenko
  William Green Miller, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine 
Steven Pifer, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
  Moderator: Ron Asmus, German Marshall Fund 
4:00 Conference Adjournment
     
5:30 Reception  
  Reception held at the Freedom House Main Office Building, Second Floor, 1319 Eighteenth Street, N.W., Washington
  Welcome: Thomas Dine, president, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
  Speaker: Zbigniew Brzezinski, trustee and counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies
7:30

Reception and Adjournment

 
 
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