| Ukraine's Choice |
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| Europe or Russia? |
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Friday, December 10, 2004
9:00 AM
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Friday, December 10, 2004
4:00 PM
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| Location: |
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Directions to AEI |
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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. |
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| 8:45 a.m. |
Registration and continental breakfast |
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| 9:00 |
Welcome: |
Radek Sikorski, executive director, NAI |
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Introduction: |
Paula Dobriansky, under secretary of state for global affairs |
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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? |
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Speakers: |
Valery Pyatnyskyi, first deputy minister of economy and European integration of Ukraine |
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Pawel Wolowski, director for Ukraine, Center for Eastern Studies in Warsaw |
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Larysa Denysenko, program director, Transparency International–Kyiv office |
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Oleksandr Sushko, director, Center for Peace, Conversion, and Foreign Policy of Ukraine |
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Moderator: |
Donald Jensen, director of communications, RFE/RL |
| 10:45 |
Break |
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| 11:00 |
Successes and Failures of Ukraine’s Civil Society |
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Speakers: |
Roman Kupchinsky, former director, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Broadcasting Service |
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Vyacheslav Briukhovetsky, National University of Kyiv–Mohyla Academy |
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Adrian Karatnycky, counselor and senior scholar, Freedom House |
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Inna Pidluska, president, Europe XXI Foundation |
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Vladimir Kara-Murza, cofounder, Free Choice 2008 Committee of Russia |
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Paula Schriefer, director of programs, Freedom House |
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Moderator: |
Nadia Diuk, director for Central Europe and Eurasia, NED |
| 12:45 p.m. |
Luncheon |
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Keynote |
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Speaker: |
Representative Sander M. Levin, cochair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus |
| 2:00 |
Ukraine's Armed Forces: On the Way to Join NATO? |
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Speakers: |
James Sherr, UK Defense Academy |
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Igor S. Kozii, head, general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces, department for Euro-Atlantic integration |
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Major General Nicholas Krawciw, U.S. Army, retired |
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Moderator: |
Radek Sikorski, executive director, NAI; resident fellow, AEI |
| 3:00 |
A Geopolitical Assessment |
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Speakers: |
Oleh Rybachuk, chief of staff for Viktor Yushchenko |
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William Green Miller, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine |
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Steven Pifer, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine |
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Moderator: |
Ron Asmus, German Marshall Fund |
| 4:00 |
Conference Adjournment |
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| 5:30 |
Reception |
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Reception held at the Freedom House Main Office Building, Second Floor, 1319 Eighteenth Street, N.W., Washington |
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Welcome: |
Thomas Dine, president, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |
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Speaker: |
Zbigniew Brzezinski, trustee and counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies |
| 7:30 |
Reception and Adjournment | |
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| Available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. |
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More Information
Heather Dresser
1150 17th St. NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-5884
Fax: 202-862-7171
E-mail: HDresser@aei.org
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Media Inquiries
Veronique Rodman
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-4870
E-mail: VRodman@aei.org
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