| 8:45 a.m. | Registration and continental breakfast |
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| 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 |
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| 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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