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DAY ONE

KMUC CONFERENCE FRIDAY, November 23, 2012 Olena Zamostyan Gallery Conference Hall

5:00 PM CHAIR: Stanislava Tsarkova, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy

Remarks by: Serhiy Kvit, President of National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy

Greetings by: His Excellency Troy Lulashnyk, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine

Keynote address: Allan Rock, President University of Ottawa “PEACE, ORDER (THE RULE OF LAW) AND GOOD GOVERN- MENT, THE CANADIAN ROAD”

Speaker: Bohdan Vitvitsky, Attorney, USDJ, “RULE OF LAW, FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS AND HISTORY”

Following the presentations there will be a Reception in the Olena Zamostyan Gallery Conference Hall

Piano interlude by Ivan Zavarskii, third year Economic Theory student at National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Mr. Zavarskii will play well known composers works as well as his own compositions.

Paintings of the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, on the front cover, and of the Founders of Kyiv, Kyi, Shchek, Khoryv and their sister Lebed on the back cover are by Ivan Pylypenko, artist in residence at Atelier Pecherska Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine.

DAY TWO

KMUC CONFERENCE SATURDAY, November 24, 2012 Olena Zamostyan Gallery Conference Hall

9:00 AM CHAIR: Morning Olexiy Soshenko, Clifford Chance, Barristers & Solicitors, Kyiv Session Speakers: Ihor Bardyn, Director, Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program “NO SHORT CUT TO THE RULE OF LAW”

John Lucas, Oxford University “THE RULE OF LAW”

Hanne Severinsen, Danish Helsinki Committee, Former Council of Europe monitor of Ukraine “UKRAINE'S DIFFICULT ROAD TOWARDS RULE OF LAW”

Mykhailo Kirsenko, History Department, NaUKMA “THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF LEGAL TRADITIONS IN UKRAINE’S NATIONAL MEMORY”

Neil Boyd, Simon Fraser University “THE RULE OF LAW, THE CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND CONFI- DENCE IN THE LEGAL SYSTEM: LESSONS FROM CANADA”

Taras Kuzio, Johns Hopkins University “THE RULE OF LAW IN UKRAINE AND POST-SOVIET STATES: BETWEEN SOVIET CORRUPTION AND EUROPEAN PANACEA”

1:30 PM CHAIR: Afternoon Yuri Kushnir, Kushnir, Yakymyak & Partners, Attorneys at Law, Kyiv Session Speakers: Bohdan Havrylyshyn, Professor, civic activist, member Club of Rome "TO RULE OF LAW THROOGH TRANSFORMATION OF SOCI- ETY"

Zenon Zawada, independent journalist, Kyiv "THE NEED FOR MEDIA TO ADDRESS RULE OF LAW AT THE LOCAL LEVEL"

Yaroslav Kovalchuk, CUPP 2008 & 2009, University of Algarve “RULE OF LAW: UKRAINIAN DREAM OR ATTAINABLE GOAL?” Alona Shkrum, Pegasus Scholar of the Inner Temple, London, UK “FIXING A BROKEN LEGAL SYSTEM: ROAD TO AN INDEPEN- DENT JUDICIARY”

Maryna Rabynovich, University of Odesa “THE CONCEPT OF GOOD GOVERNANCE AND ITS APPLICA- TION IN UKRAINE”

Liliia Ibadova, Yaroslav the Wise “THE RULE OF LAW IN UKRAINE: PER ASPERA AD ASTRA”

Olha Dmytrenko, Jurist, European Court of Human Rights, Stras- bourg “RULE OF LAW IN UKRAINE: EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERIENCE”

White Paper Committee

Chair: Oleksandr Pankiv, EBRD, London, U.K.

The White Paper Committee will meet in January to distill the proceedings of the 4 MOD- EL UKRAINE CONFERENCES and prepare a White Paper of recommendation for good governance to the Government of Ukraine.

Proposed to date: Yaroslav Kovalchuk, Roman Tashlitsky, Elena Shyshkina, Nazar Fedorchuk, Vasyl Myroshnychenko, Kseniia Mukhina, Stanislava Tsarkova, Pavlo Shopin, Liliia Ibadova

Institutions listed next to the names of the Conference speakers are included for purposes of identification and are not intended to imply that the speaker represents that institution or its views.

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Ihor Bardyn is Director of the Can- Neil Boyd is a ada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program Professor in the (CUPP) an Internship program in the School of Crimi- Canadian Parliament for university nology at Simon students from Ukraine, the Ukraini- Fraser Univer- an Diasporas of Western Europe, Be- sity, educated larus, Georgia, Russia and Canada. in psychology at In 1990 he founded the CUPP Pro- the University gram by agreement with the Speaker of Western On- of the House of Commons John Fras- tario and in law er. A lawyer by profession he founded at Osgoode Hall his own firm, which allowed him to Law School. He devote time to projects of long-term is a previous Director of the School of value. Criminology and the author of seven He has been the author of several im- books and many academic articles. Pro- portant foundation documents, which led to the establishment fessor Boyd has been a member of the of academic, educational and community initiatives. Among Board of Directors of the International these was the Proposal and Agreement for the establishment Centre for Criminal Law Reform and of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, Criminal Justice Policy for most of the to the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at the University of Toronto. past 20 years. He is currently seconded to Thereafter he authored the International Agreement for the the Centre, at the University of British creation of the World Congress of Ukrainian Jurists, to the Columbia, for the 2012/2013 fall and three Associations of lawyers in Ukraine as well as to the indi- spring semesters. vidual Jurists Associations of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, He teaches law courses at Simon Fraser Brazil, France, Paraguay, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom, University, with a focus on issues related USA, and Canada and served as the WCUJ’s International to the rule of law and civil liberties. He is Chair in its formative years. a frequent media commentator on sub- He was the author of the Submissions to the Government of jects related to law and criminology, most Canada, to substantiate the historical and legal basis and notably violence and drug policy. His claims as well as to quantify the economic losses suffered by most recent book, A Thousand Dreams: Canadians who were interned during Canada’s first intern- Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the ment imposed by the Government of Sir Robert Borden. Fight for its Future, was co-authored He was the author of the Trust Agreement for the establish- with Senator Larry Campbell and Van- ment of the Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky Institute of East- couver journalist Lori Culbert. The book ern Christian Studies at St. Paul University in Ottawa, to the was short-listed for Canada’s Donner Rector and Council of Administration of St. Paul University. Prize, and was the winner of the George He served for nine years as Councilor on the Council of Admin- Ryga Award for social awareness in liter- istration of St. Paul University. ature. Recently he initiated the renaming of the Ukrainian Chair to the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies of the Univer- sity of Toronto. He has served a member of the Boards of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation (Kyiv),), Council for Canadian Unity (Ontario Di- rector), PLAST, Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation. Amnes- ty International (Country representative). Recently he was elected President of the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada. In 2012 he became the second community person, after John Yaremko, to be honoured with the ARBOR AWARD by the University of Toronto.

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Olga Dmytrenko Bohdan Hawrylyshyn was born has been working and grew in Ukraine. Master of Ap- as a lawyer in the plied Science and Engineering, Uni- European Court of versity of Toronto, Doctor of Eco- Human Rights nomics and Social Sciences, since 2003. In 2000 University of Geneva. He was pro- she obtained a Mas- fessor, then for 18 years Director of ter of Law degree International Management Insti- from Taras tute in Geneva (now IMD Laus- Shevchenko Na- anne). Founder of the European tional University Management Forum in Davos (now (Kyiv, Ukraine). World Economic Forum), member She also has a di- of the Club of Rome, fellow and ploma in European Community Law from member of the Board of the World Academy of Art and Sci- Université de Bourgogne (Dijon, France) ence. Acted as consultant to General Electric, IBM, Unilever, and a Master of Law in Human Rights de- Phillips, advisor to several countries. gree from Robert Schuman University Bohdan Hawrylyshyn has 5 honorary doctorates, gold medal (Strasbourg, France). from President of the Italian Republic, 2 medals from Presi- In 1998-2003 she worked as an MP assis- dents of Ukraine. From 1988 he works mainly in Ukraine, tant in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, a created International Management Institute which he chairs, legal assistant in the OSCE Election Ob- chaired International Centre for Political Studies, initiated servation Mission and a legal assistant the creation of a number of student organizations, acted as and a program manager in the American advisor to the first President of Ukraine, four successive Bar Association/Central and East Europe- chairmen of Parliament, three prime ministers. Now focuses an Legal Initiative (ABA/CEELI). on youth organizations through Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Char- She was Canada Ukraine Parliamentary itable Foundation. Program participant in 1998.

Liliia Ibadova graduated from Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy of Ukraine in 2012, Fac- ulty of Jurists for the Ministry of For- eign Affairs. She participated in the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program in 2010 and was an intern at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine at the Department of In- ternational Organizations in 2012. Liliia is the recipient of numerous scholarships including from the Pres- ident of Ukraine, the Swedish Institute and the Mayor of City Kharkiv. She has experience in a leading international law firm in Kyiv, and currently is involved in the Canada Mission 2012 Ukraine Parliamentary Election – the ob- servation mission of the Government of Canada, as the assistant legal analyst.

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Mykhailo Kirsenko graduated Yuri Kushnir from Taras Shevchenko National is a partner University of Kyiv. Completed with Kushnir, Graduate Studies at Taras Yakymyak & Shevchenko National University Partners law and earned Doctorate (PhD) from firm. His previ- the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute ous experience of Ukrainian Archeography, Acad- includes work emy of Sciences of Ukraine. Author as a legislative of numerous publications, co-au- assistant to a thor of Essays on the History of Member of Par- Ukraine’s Diplomacy in 2001. Re- liament of cently taught at Josef Tischner Eu- Ukraine, as an ropean University in Krakow, Po- associate of land. Currently lectures in Faculty Kyiv office of of History at National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. The Silecky Firm, PC, as well as an intern at the House of Commons, Ottawa and On- tario Legislative Assembly, Toronto, Cana- da. He also lectured on Banking law and Iaroslav Kovalchuk is a PhD Insurance law at National University of Scholar at the University of the Al- Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. garve (Portugal) through Erasmus Yuri holds an LL.M. degree from the Uni- Mundus Program for 2010-2013. versity of Virginia School of Law. He grad- He is working on the thesis in the uated from Lviv National University in sphere of political linguistics con- Ukraine, and obtained further legal train- centrating on the psycholinguistic ing and certification from Cambridge Uni- component of charismatic leaders’ versity and the Hague Academy of Inter- appeal. He has presented results of national Law. Yuri also completed his research at the international Ukrainian School of Political Studies. conferences in Poland, Sweden and Yuri specializes in banking & finance, in- Portugal. vestments regulation, tax consulting and Prior to getting Erasmus Mundus tax planning, insurance, and cross-border Scholarship, in 2009 Iaroslav graduated from National Uni- commercial transactions. His community versity of Ostroh academy with M.A. in English and Litera- activities included heading the CUPP ture. In 2009-2010 he worked as a lecturer at Ostroh acade- Alumni Association, co-chairing of EBA my, at the same time studying economics there. In 2010 he Legal Committee, membership in Ukraini- received Bachelor’s Degree in Finances. an Scout Organization “Plast”. In 2008 he initiated creation of Active Youth NGO and was elected its head. In 2009 he became a member of public ex- perts group at the Department of Civil Service in Rivne re- gion. In 2010 he worked as an interpreter of OSCE/ODIHR ob- servers’ mission during presidential elections in Ukraine. As a freelance journalist Iaroslav published a number of articles in the papers The Day (Ukraine), New Pathway (Can- ada), Svoboda (USA), Ukrainian News (Canada) etc. He was Canada Ukraine Parliamentary Program participant in 2008 and a coordinator of the Program in 2009.

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Taras Kuzio in 2010- Serhiy Kvit, a promi- 2012 wrote a Contem- nent commentator on porary History of educational issues, has Ukraine asa Senior been president of the Visiting Fellow at the NationalUniversity of Slavic Research Cen- Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ter, Hokkaido Univer- since 2007. From 2002- sity, Japan, and Senior 07 he was dean of the Visiting Fellow at the social studies faculty. Center for Transatlan- He founded the Kyiv- tic Relations, School of Mohyla School of Jour- Advanced Internation- nalism in 2001 and be- al Studies, John Hop- came president of kins University, Wash- theMedia Reform Cen- ington DC. Previously tre set up to initiate he has been a Visiting Professorat the Institute for open debate and promote more transparent media European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott and government. He served as chair of the Con- School of International Affairs, George Washington sortium on University Autonomy from 2005-10. Universityand Senior Research Fellow in the Centre Kvit haspublished several books and numerous for Russian and East European Studies at the Uni- articles. He has a PhD from the Ukrainian Free versity of Birmingham. Taras Kuzio has been a polit- University in Munich and also holds a doctorate ical consultant to the U.S., Canadian and Japanese in philology. He was the recipient of a Fulbright governments and legal and business consultant on le- scholarship toOhio University in the US, a Ken- gal and economic questions. He is the author and edi- nan Institute scholarship at the Woodrow Wilson tor of 14 books, including Open Ukraine. Changing InternationalCenter for Scholars in Washington Course towards a European Future Democratic Revo- DC and a DAAD scholarship at the University of lution in Ukraine (2011), From Kuchmagate to Or- Cologne. ange Revolution (2009), Theoreticaland Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism (2007) and Ukraine- Crimea-Russia: Triangle of Conflict (2007). He is the author of 5 think tank monographs, 25 book chapters, Mr J.R. Lucas spent most and 75 scholarly articles on post-communist and of his life in Oxford, where Ukrainian politics, nationalism and European secu- he was Fellow and Tutor in rity and has guest edited 6 special issues of Commu- philosophy at Merton Col- nist and Post-Communist Studies, Problems of Post- lege. Previously he had Communism, East European Politicsand Society, been Fellow and Second Nationalities Papers and Journal of Ukrainian Stud- Tutor at Corpus Christi ies. He has written hundreds of articles on contempo- College, Cambridge, and rary Ukrainian and post-communist politics, and for- had spent a year at Prince- eign policy for media publications. Taras Kuzio ton. He was President of received a BA in Economics from the University of the British Society for the Sussex, an MA in Soviet and Eastern European Stud- Philosophy of Science, and is a Fellow of the Brit- ies from the University of London and a Phd in Politi- ish Academy. He is the author of books and arti- cal Science from the University of Birmingham, Eng- cles listed in http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jrlucas/biblipg. land. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Yale html. University.

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H.E. Troy Lulashnyk has been ap- Oleksandr Pankiv is a pointed Canada’s Ambassador to Finance Associate with Ukraine in November 2011. Gradu- the Office of General ate of the University of Manitoba Counsel at the European with BA/Hons. and MA in political Bank for Reconstruction science, he worked at the Canadian and Development HQ in Nuclear Safety Commission as a Nu- London, United King- clear Non-Proliferation Officer -be dom, where he is respon- tween 1996 and 1998. In 1999 he sible for debt capital joined the Department of Foreign markets and derivative transactions of the Bank. Affairs and International Trade as a Prior to that Oleksandr Senior Policy Advisor with the Nuclear and Chemical has been working as an Disarmament Implementation Agency. In 2002 he be- Associate with the Banking & Finance Depart- came Director of the Global Partnership Program, an ini- ment of Clifford Chance law firm in Kyiv, tiative to prevent terrorist groups and countries of prolif- mainly specialising on cross-border lending, eration concern from accessing the Cold War legacy of project finance transactions as well as complex weapons and materials of mass destruction and related debt restructurings and regulatory advice to expertise in the former Soviet Union. Subsequently in the firm’s clients. Oleksandr is admitted to 2006 he became Director General of that bureau. In 2010 practice law in Ukraine and New York, United he was named Director General of the Major Programs States of America. Oleksandr has earned his Bureau with responsibility for Canada’s international LL.M. Degree from Boston University School policies and programs addressing weapons of mass de- of Law in 2010 and Master Degree in Law from struction threat reduction, international criminal activi- the University of Lviv in 2009. He was Cana- ty, and counter-terrorism; along with participation in re- da-Ukraine Parliamentary Program partici- lated international forum such as the Nuclear Security pant in 2008 and a coordinator of the Program Summit and the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Ter- in 2010. rorism.

Maryna Rabinovych is a student of Law and Econom- ics in the Faculty of Law of the University of Odesa and CUPP 2013 applicant. Mary- na is a volunteer with the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, Senior Fellow with Humanity in Action and a member of ELSA Legal Research Group for Children’s Rights. In the summerof 2012 Ms Rabinovych became a participant of EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine Internship Program. She is the author of more than ten theses and articles on European law, European integration of Ukraine, human rights protection and democ- racy. Along with studies and voluntary work, Maryna is one of the organizers of the Odesa local social project, aimed at social inclusion of physically challenged seniors.

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Allan Rock is President of the University of A l o n a Ottawa, one of Canada's leading research uni- S h k r u m versities. is a Pega- A 1971 graduate of the University's Faculty of sus Schol- Law, he practised for over two decades as a tri- ar of the al lawyer with the Faskens firm in Toronto. H o n o u r - He was inducted as a Fellow of the American able Soci- College of Trial Lawyers in 1988. He was elected by his peers as head of Ontario's Law Soci- ety of the ety in 1992. I n n e r In 1993, Allan Rock was elected to the Cana- T e m p l e . dian Parliament, and was re-elected in 1997 Currently and 2000. He spent ten years as a member she is pur- Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Cabinet, hold- suing an internship in the Inns of ing various senior portfolios: Minister of Jus- the Court, being a visiting pupil tice and Attorney General (1993-1997); Minister of Health (1997- in a number of top barristers' 2002) and Minister of Industry and Minister of Infrastructure Chambers in London and a visitor (2002-2003). scholar to the Supreme Court, He left Parliament in 2003 upon his appointment as Canadian Am- Court of Appeal, Old Bailey and bassador to the United Nations in New York, where he was deeply in- Southwark Crown Court in Lon- volved in humanitarian, peace-building and development efforts, par- ticularly in Africa, Haiti and Sri Lanka. don U.K. As President of the University of Ottawa since 2008, he has led one of She recently received an LL.M. Canada's largest and most research intensive universities. Its new degree from Cambridge Universi- and ambitious strategic plan is focused on achieving even greater re- ty (Trinity Hall), specializing in search intensity, as well as enhancing the quality of each student's ex- international law. Alona also perience. The pland includes a contin ued commitment to la Franco- holds her B.A. and a French Lan- phonie (uOttawa is the world's largest bilingual university), a greater guage Interpreter's Diploma from role internationally, and increased community and global engage- the Institute of International Re- ment by students, faculty and employees. lations of Taras Shevchenko Na- In June, 2012, the University of Ottawa's Board of Governors extend- tional University of Kyiv. Her pro- ed Allan Rock's mandate as President until June 30, 2016. fessional experience includes working as a lawyer in one of the top Ukrainian law firms and in the Bar association of lawyers of Hanne Severinsen received her MA in His- the city of Paris in France. tory and Political Sciences from the Univer- sity of Copenhagen, where she has lectured While in Cambridge University, from 1971. She was elected to the City Coun- she was an active member of the cil of Copenhagen in 1974 and served until Ukrainian Society, Graduate Law 1984. As a member of the UN Committee on Society and the Lawyers Without the Status of Women she was elected to the Borders Society. Alona has pub- Danish Parliament where she served as an lished a number of articles con- MP until 2007. Hanne was a Member of the cerning the practice of the Euro- Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of pean Court of Human Rights and Europe from 1991 to 2008. She was a rappor- execution of the decisions of the teur for Ukraine’s accession to the Council of ECHR in Ukraine. Europe in 1995 and until 2008 a rapporteur for Ukraine’s fulfilling of obligations and commitments to the Council of Europe. She served as an advisor to the Ukrainian Gov- ernment from 2008 to 2010. She has worked with the Danish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights since 2008.

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Olexiy Soshenko is a qualified Stanislava Tsar- Ukrainian attorney with over kova is an alumnus 15 years of experience in the of 2010 Canada- practice of law, working for in- Ukraine Parliamen- ternational law firms in Ukraine. tary Program and Currently Olexiy Soshenko is a was a Ukrainian co- counsel in the Clifford Chance ordinator in 2011. Kyiv office as head of its bank- After graduating ing and finance practice. Olex- from National Uni- iy's practice focuses on banking versity of “Kyiv-Mo- and finance, capital markets, hyla Academy” with secured transactions, including a diploma of a bach- restructuring and refinancing, elor of Economic the- representing both lending insti- ory, she pursues her second degree at Yuri tutions and borrowers in vari- Fedkovych National University of Chernivtsi ous types of financings. He earned his Master of Laws (expected graduation in 2013 with a diploma (LLM) from the University of Minnesota School of of Foreign Affairs analyst and translator). In Law in 1997. Olexiy graduated from Yaroslav the Wise 2012 Stanislava became Administrator for National Law Academy of Ukraine (Kharkiv) in Kyiv Model Ukraine Conference. At present 1996. In 1995 Olexiy participated in the Canada- she works as Administrative Assistant at Che- Ukraine Parliamentary Program and served his in- monics International Inc., US-based company, ternship in the offices ofDr.Chris Axworthy and John that implements Strengthening Tuberculosis Solomon, both Members of Parliament from Saskatche- (TB) Control in Ukraine (STbCU) Project un- wan. der USAID funding.

Bohdan Vitvitsky is a highly decorat- ed U.S. federal pros- ecutor. He has also written on law, philosophy and history, and he has taught or guest lectured at Columbia, Harvard, Pittsburgh, Ruters and other universities. In 1992 he was one of the organizers of the first international conference of Ukrainian lawyers in Kyiv and delivered a keynote address on the rule of law. Between 2007 and 2009, he served as a Resident Legal Advisor at the U.S. Em- bassy in Kyiv where he was involved in imple- menting a large anti-corruption project. He holds a Juris Doctor and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University in New York.

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Zenon Za- Hamlet William Shakespeare wada is an A m e r i c a n Act 1, Scene 4 j o u r n a l i s t Original Text Modern Text w r i t i n g about Ukrai- Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and HAMLET, HORATIO, and nian poli- MARCELLUS MARCELLUS enter. tics, busi- HAMLET HAMLET ness and The air bites shrewdly. It is very cold. The air is biting cold. society for HORATIO HORATIO more than It is a nipping and an eager air. Yes, it's definitely nippy. seven years. He is the HAMLET HAMLET former bu- What hour now? What time is it? reau editor HORATIO HORATIO for The Ukrainian Weekly, the world's I think it lacks of twelve. A little before twelve, I think. oldest English-language publication on Ukraine, and former chief editor of MARCELUS MARCELLUS No, it is struck. No, it's just after twelve; I heard the Kyiv Post. Besides Western pub- the clock strike. lications, his writings have also been published in leading Ukrainian pub- HORATIO HORATIO lications, such as Ukrayinska Pravda Indeed? I heard it not. It then draws Really? I didn't hear it. So it's and Ukrayinskiy Tyzhden (The near the season nearly the time when the ghost Where the spririt held his wont to likes to appear. Ukrainian Week). walk. Before arriving in Ukraine, Zawada A flourish of trumpets and two Trumpets play offstage and two served as a business reporter for the pieces of ordenance goes off cannons are fired. Winston-Salem Journal in North Car- What does this mean, my lord? What does that mean, sir? olina. He covered the famous class- HAMLET HAMLET action lawsuit filed on behalf of half a The king doth wake tonight and The king is staying up all night million Florida smokers against the takes his rouse, drinking and dancing. As he guz- five leading U.S. cigarette producers. Keeps wassail and the swaggering zles down his German wine, the It resulted in the largest punitive upspring reels, musicians make a ruckus to damages verdict in American history And, as he drains his draughts of celebrate his draining another Rhenish down, cup. of $145 bililon, which was later over- The kettle-drum and trumpet thus turned. Instead, the plaintiffs re- bray out ceived compensation through a The triumph of his pledge, settlement. Zawada earned a bache- HORATIO HORATIO lor's of arts degree in international It is a custom? Is that a tradition? studies from American University in Washington, D.C. HAMLET HAMLET Zenon Zawada will discuss the need Ay, marry, is't. Yes, it is. But though I was born for media to address rule of law is- But to my mind, though I am native here and should consider that here tradition part of my own heri- sues at the local level and the first And to the manner born, it is a tage, I think it would be better steps necessary to remedy that prob- custom to ignore it than practice it. lem. That includes the launch of a More honored in the breach than the Other countries criticize us for news website that addresses prob- observance. our loud partying. lems faced by average Ukrainian citi- This heavy-headed revel east and west zens in a society where rule of law is Makes us traduced and taxed of lacking. other nations.

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