EUROPEAN THOUGHT LEADERS’ MEETING FOR A SUSTAINABLE DEMOCRATIC UKRAINE Kyiv, April 19-22, 2015 PROGRAM April 19, Sunday Arrival of the participants 20:00 – Welcome buffet Address: Hotel “Hilton” (30, Tarasa Shevchenka blvd) April 20, Monday 08:30 Meeting in the lobby 09:00 – 12:00 Optional: Visit to “Mezhyhirya”, Viktor Yanukovych`s former residence – a museum of corruption (Guide: Natalie Sedletska, author of the TV Program on corruption “Schemes”) Address: village Novi Petrivtzi 12:30–13:30 Meeting with a high-level representative of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine (TBC) 14:00 – 15:30 Working lunch with Ukrainian decision-makers: Oleh Bereziuk, Member of the Parliament, Chairperson of the deputy group of Political party “Samopomich” Oleksandr Lytvynenko, Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Pavlo Rizanenko, Member of the Parliament, Chairperson of the subcommittee on securities, stock market, activity of rating agencies and e-commerce of the Committee on Financial Policy and Banking, (Political Party “Petro Poroshenko Bloc”) Ostap Semerak, Member of the Parliament, First Deputy Chairperson of the Committee on European Integration (Political party “People’s Front”) Aliona Shkrum, Member of the Parliament, Chairperson of the subcommittee on state service and service in the bodies of local self-government of the Committee on State Building, Regional Policy and Local Self-Government (Political party “Batkivshchyna”) Address: Georgian Restaurant “Shoti”, 9 Mechnikova st. 16:00 – 17:00 Meeting with Andriy Parubiy, First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Former Secretary of National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Address: Sadova 3A, (office 416) 17:30 – 18:30 Refat Chubarov, Head of the Council of Representatives of the Crimean Tatar People, Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine Address: Institute of World Policy, 8, Shovkovychna Str. 19:00 Working dinner with Ukrainian opinion and decision leaders: Yevhen Bystrytsky, Executive Director, International Renaissance Foundation Oleksii Makeiev, Political Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Volodymyr Ogryzko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007-2009) Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta, First Deputy Minister of Culture of Ukraine (2014) Josef Zissels, Head, Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine (VAAD) Address: Restaurant “Charlotte”, 55, Turgenievskaya Str.
April 21, Tuesday 09:20 Meeting in the lobby 10:00–11:00 Discussion in Ukrainian Media Crisis Centre. Interview for mass-media Address: Ukrainian house, 2, Khreschatyk Str. 11:30–12:30 Meeting with Yevgen Marchuk, Advisor to the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Address: 35, Volodymyrska Str. 13:00–14:00 Working lunch with Ukrainian experts: Oleksiy Haran, Professor, Head, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy's Political Analysis School Mykhailo Honchar, President, Centre for Global Studies “Strategy XXI” Oleksiy Melnyk, Co-director, Foreign Relations and International Security Programmes, Razumkov Centre Dmytro Shulga, European Program Initiative Director, International Renaissance Foundation; representative of the “Ukraine in the World” group Address: Hotel Premier Palace, 5-7/29 T. Shevchenka Blvd., at Pushkinska Str. 14:05 – 15:00 Round table with the regional thought civic leaders Julia Bidenko, political expert (Kharkiv) Viktoriya Bryndza, sociologist (Lviv) Yuriy Raykhel, political expert (Dnipropetrovsk) Yevgeniya Zavaliy, political expert (Odesa) Maria Zolkina, political expert (Luhansk, Kyiv) Address: Hotel Premier Palace, 5-7/29 T. Shevchenka Blvd., at Pushkinska Str. 15:30 – 16:30 Meeting with Natalia Yaresko, Minister of Finance of Ukraine Address: Mezhyhirska, 11 17:00 – 18:00 Meeting with Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine
20:00 Working dinner with Ukrainian civic activists: Liubov Akulenko, Project Director of EU program, Centre UA; representative of “Stronger Together” civil society coalitions Daria Kaleniuk, Executive Director, Anticorruption Action Centr; representative of the Reanimation Reforms Package Vadim Miskyi, Coordinator of expert group, Reanimation Reforms Package Inna Pidluska, Deputy Executive Director, International Renaissance Foundation; representative of the “Ukraine in the World” group Andriy Shevchenko, representative of the Reanimation Reforms Package Vasyl Myroshnychenko, Co-founder, Ukrainian Media Crisis Center (TBC) Address: Ukrainian Restaurant “O`Panas” (Shevchenko park, Tereschenkovskaya Str., 10) April 22, Wednesday Departure