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IFES Faqs on Elections in Ukraine
Elections in Ukraine 2019 Presidential Election Frequently Asked Questions Europe and Eurasia International Foundation for Electoral Systems 2011 Crystal Drive | Floor 10 | Arlington, VA 22202 | www.IFES.org March 22, 2019 Frequently Asked Questions When is Election Day? ................................................................................................................................... 1 Why is this election important? .................................................................................................................... 1 What is the role of the president? ................................................................................................................ 1 What is the legal framework governing the elections? ................................................................................ 1 What is the electoral system? ....................................................................................................................... 2 Who are the candidates? .............................................................................................................................. 2 How are elections administered? ................................................................................................................. 3 Who can vote in these elections? ................................................................................................................. 4 How do citizens register to vote? ................................................................................................................ -
Jenny Lewis Feels Good. That Sounds Simple, but It's Been a Long Time
10/15/2015 Jenny Lewis Is Writing Songs Without Apology | Bitch Media MUSIC (/MUSIC) JENNY LEWIS (/TOPIC/JENNYLEWIS) by Hannah Steinkopf-Frank (/profile/hannah-steinkopf-frank) Published on August 25, 2015 at 10:48am Jenny Lewis feels good. That sounds simple, but it’s been a long time coming for the ‘90s child actor turned prolific musician. As a kid, Lewis starred in films like The Wizard and Troop Beverly Hills before pursing music. Her band Rilo Kiley was part of the wave of indie groups that defined the alternative music scene of the aughts. But in recent years, Lewis has faced a series of setbacks: the disbanding of Rilo Kiley, the death of her father, and chronic insomnia. https://bitchmedia.org/article/interview-jenny-lewis-music-and-voyager-feminism 1/9 10/15/2015 Jenny Lewis Is Writing Songs Without Apology | Bitch Media It was these experiences that provided the material for last year’s The Voyager (http://www.jennylewis.com/), her first solo release since 2008’s Acid Tongue. For Lewis, making The Voyager was freeing. Without the pressure of bandmates, she was able to have total control over her music, albeit with the occasional guidance of Beck and Ryan Adams. Lewis has also returned to her Hollywood roots and scored best-friend flick Very Good Girls and 2014 film Song One, which starred her friend Anne Hathaway. Lewis most recently wrote a song with boyfriend and collaborator Jonathan Rice for Meryl Streep’s rocker character, Ricki, in the new film Ricki and the Flash (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3623726/). -
PIR CENTER ПИР-ЦЕНТР Center for Policy Studies Центр Политических Исследований (Russia) России
Information Bulletin of PIR Center 2007 PIR CENTER ПИР-ЦЕНТР Center for Policy Studies Центр политических исследований (Russia) России www.pircenter.org/eng CONTENTS Vladimir ORLOV: PIR Center Publishes a Russian Journal on International Security 1 From Yaderny Kontrol to Security Index 3 The Year of Russia’s G8 Presidency 4 April Conference: G8 Global Security Agenda: Challenges and Interests. Towards the St. Petersburg Summit 6 PIR Center Summer School PIR Center staff and organizers of the conference “G8 Global 8 Security Agenda: Challenges and Interests. Towards the St. Petersburg Summit” from L to R: Anton Khlopkov, PIR Center Internship Program Nadezhda Medvedeva, Evgeny Maslin, Vadim Kozyulin, Tatyana 10 Nefedova, Sergey Ponamarev, Ekaterina Soroka, Anastasia Small Arms and Light Weapons Project Laguta, Nadezhda Logutova, Vladimir Orlov, Kristina Kravchenko, Pavel Mansurov, Anna Shuvalova, Konstantin Khachaturyan, 11 Oleg Kulakov, and Konstantin Sirikov. PIR Center Networking 12 Centre russe d'études politiques (CREP) Set Up in Geneva 13 iSi — A Comprehensive International Security Index 14 PIR Center Online 14 The Trialogue Club 15 PIR Center in the Media 16 PIRogue PIR Center Information Bulletin, Issue 5 Editor: Anton Khlopkov Managing editor: Anastasia Laguta Layout and design: Dimitry Polukeev On the cover from L to R and top to bottom: Marian Abisheva (Deputy Proofreading: Cristina Chuen and Warren Polensky Director on Research, Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies); The text of the PIRogue bulletin may only be reproduced Victor Kholstov (Deputy Head, Federal Agency on Industry of the or quoted with the appropriate reference. Contact PIR Center Russian Federation); Konstantin Kosachev (Chairman, International for permission to reproduce printed materials. -
The Rise and Fall of Russia's Soft Power
The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Soft Power Results of the Past Twenty Years Vera D. Ageeva Vera D. Ageeva, PhD in International Relations Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg, Russia Department of Political Science and International Relations Deputy Head of Department, Associate Professor Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris), France The Centre for International Studies (CERI) Doctoral Student ORCID: 0000-0002-5419-0968 SPIN RSCI: 3009-1828 E-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +7 (812) 644-59-11*61415 Address: 123 Griboedov Embankment, St. Petersburg 190008, Russia E-mail: [email protected] Address: 27 Rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris 75007, France DOI: 10.31278/1810-6374-2021-19-1-118-145 Abstract The article examines the evolution of Russia’s soft power strategy over the past twenty years. The author analyzes the goals the Russian leadership set when starting this work, and shows that those goals were not limited to improving the Russian image on the world stage. The following periodization of Russia’s soft power evolution is proposed: the rise (2000-2007/2008), institutionalization (2007/2008-2013/2014), and tightening (2013/2014- till present). The article explores how Russian soft power changed during these periods: what tools were used, what role formal and informal institutions played, and what ideas and values were used as a foreign policy 118 RUSSIA IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS The Rise and Fall of Russia’s Soft Power narrative. The analysis of the evolution of the Russian strategy allows us to correlate different stages of its development with Joseph Nye’s concept, as well as to show the intermediate and final results of its implementation. -
Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue Mp3, Flac, Wma
Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue mp3, flac, wma DOWNLOAD LINKS (Clickable) Genre: Rock / Folk, World, & Country Album: Acid Tongue Country: US Released: 2014 Style: Country, Indie Rock, Country Rock MP3 version RAR size: 1442 mb FLAC version RAR size: 1775 mb WMA version RAR size: 1121 mb Rating: 4.5 Votes: 705 Other Formats: MP1 RA MP2 VOC DTS AC3 APE Tracklist Hide Credits Black Sand A1 Bass – Jason LaderCello – Ana LenchantinDrums – Barbara GruskaPiano, Vibraphone, 2:54 Vocals – Jenny LewisViolin – Paz Lenchantin, Wes Precourt Pretty Bird A2 Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals – M. WardBass, Vocals – Jonathan Wilson*Drums – 3:47 Barbara GruskaVocals – Farmer Dave Scher, Jenny Lewis, Johnathan Rice The Next Messiah Acoustic Guitar, Vocals – Johnathan RiceBass – Davey FaragherDrums – Jason A3 BoeselElectric Guitar – Blake MillsVocals – Chris Robinson , Farmer Dave Sher*, Jenny 8:45 Lewis, Jonathan Wilson*, Vanesa Corbala, Zooey DeschanelVocals [Whisper] – Morgan NaglerVocals, Vocals [Whisper] – Benji Hughes Bad Man's World B4 Bass – Jason LaderCello – Ana LenchantinDrums – Barbara GruskaOrgan [Hammond B3] – 3:40 Farmer Dave Sher*Piano, Vocals – Jenny LewisViolin – Paz Lenchantin, Wes Precourt Acid Tongue B5 Acoustic Guitar, Vocals – Jenny LewisVocals – Chris Robinson , Farmer Dave Sher*, 3:50 Johnathan Rice, Jonathan Wilson* See Fernando Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Johnathan RiceBass – Davey FaragherDrums – Jason B6 3:34 BoeselSteel Guitar [Lap] – Farmer Dave ScherVocals – Jenny Lewis, Leslie Lewis , Vanesa Corbala Godspeed B7 Bass -
Become More Skillful Every Day. There Is No Limit to Perfection. Hagakure
STRATEGIES FOR BUSINESS IN MOSCOW Become more skillful every day. There is no limit to perfection. Hagakure A PROPOS Robbie Williams was wrong when he referred to a Russian Today, these crimson jackets can only been businessman as “a modern Rasputin” in his famous hit found in museums. Modern Russian businessmen “Party Like a Russian.” But he’s not the only one to think have stopped wearing clothes that were popular so. A lot of businessmen abroad are convinced that doing among their predecessors in the 90s. Along with business in Russia is dangerous because anarchy and their appearance, their attitudes have changed lawlessness reign here. This is in spite of the fact that Russia as well. These days, Russian businessmen want keeps climbing up in the Doing Business rating, which is more than to make a lot of money. According to published every year by the World Bank. In just one year, one representative from the All-Russian Non- Russia jumped from 35th to 31st place. And keep in mind Governmental Organization of Small and Medium- that back in 2012, Russia was in 120th place! Unfortunately, Sized Business Opora Russia, a modern entrepreneur old habits die hard. As Karl Marx once pointed out, is, first and foremost, someone who is open to new “a person’s mind is the strongest fortress.” information. They have a different perspective on the world. Moreover, an entrepreneur's reputation Actually, the times when the first thing a foreign plays a much bigger role than it used to. Honesty and businessman did after coming to Russia was hire a reliability are valued, and partners who have stood bodyguard are long gone. -
Opora Final Report on Observation at the 2019 Regular Presidential Elections in Ukraine
OPORA FINAL REPORT ON OBSERVATION AT THE 2019 REGULAR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN UKRAINE Kyiv― 2020 The publication was made possible due to support of American people pro- vided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Any opinions and statements expressed in this publication may not coin- cide with the official position of USAID and US Government. Authors Oleksandr Kliuzhev Oleksandr Neberykut Olha Kotsiuruba Robert Lorian Iurii Lisovskyi Grygorii Sorochan Endorsed by Olga Aivazovska Translation Svitlana Bregman Design by Viktoria Arkhypenko ISBN 978-617-7142-56-9 © OPORA, 2020 CONTENT ABOUT OPORA OBSERVATION 5 BACKGROUND INFORMATION OF THE REPORT 7 DETAILED SUMMARY 13 ELECTORAL SYSTEM AND ELECTORAL LAW 31 REGISTRATION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE POSITION OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE 35 CAMPAIGNING ACTIVITIES OF PARTIES AND CANDIDATES 39 Peculiarities of the early campaigning 40 Format of campaigning activities and early campaigning subjects 41 Campaigning activities of candidates within the electoral process 46 Campaigning activities of candidates during the preparation for the second round of voting 51 ADMINISTRATION OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN UKRAINE 55 CEC operations 56 Formation and activities of district election commissions 64 Establishing district election commissions 64 The first sessions of district election commissions 69 Rotation of the DEC membership 72 Formation of precinct election commissions 72 Launch of operations of precinct election commissions 78 Formation and organization of DEC operations -
Russian Advocacy Coalitions
Russian Advocacy Coalitions A study in Power Resources This study examines the advocacy coalitions in Russia. Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework, it looks at the power resource distribution amongst the coalitions, and how this distribution affects Russian foreign policy. The power resources examined are: Formal Legal Authority; Public Opinion; Information; Mobilizable Troops; and Financial Resources. In addition to this, the study used quantitative and qualitative methods to identify these resources. There are a couple of conclusions we may draw from this study. The method is useful in identifying power resources. It is not enough to use only the distribution of resources amongst coalitions in order to explain policy changes. It is found that the distribution of resources, coupled with coalition interaction, is enough to explain changes in Russian foreign policy. KEYWORDS: Advocacy Coalition Framework, Russia, Power Resources, Natural Gas WORDS: 24,368 Author: Robert Granlund Supervisor: Fredrik Bynander Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 PURPOSE .................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 RESEARCH QUESTIONS ............................................................................................................ 2 1.3 OUTLINE.................................................................................................................................. -
The Spectral Voice and 9/11
SILENCIO: THE SPECTRAL VOICE AND 9/11 Lloyd Isaac Vayo A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY August 2010 Committee: Ellen Berry, Advisor Eileen C. Cherry Chandler Graduate Faculty Representative Cynthia Baron Don McQuarie © 2010 Lloyd Isaac Vayo All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT Ellen Berry, Advisor “Silencio: The Spectral Voice and 9/11” intervenes in predominantly visual discourses of 9/11 to assert the essential nature of sound, particularly the recorded voices of the hijackers, to narratives of the event. The dissertation traces a personal journey through a selection of objects in an effort to seek a truth of the event. This truth challenges accepted narrativity, in which the U.S. is an innocent victim and the hijackers are pure evil, with extra-accepted narrativity, where the additional import of the hijacker’s voices expand and complicate existing accounts. In the first section, a trajectory is drawn from the visual to the aural, from the whole to the fragmentary, and from the professional to the amateur. The section starts with films focused on United Airlines Flight 93, The Flight That Fought Back, Flight 93, and United 93, continuing to a broader documentary about 9/11 and its context, National Geographic: Inside 9/11, and concluding with a look at two YouTube shorts portraying carjackings, “The Long Afternoon” and “Demon Ride.” Though the films and the documentary attempt to reattach the acousmatic hijacker voice to a visual referent as a means of stabilizing its meaning, that voice is not so easily fixed, and instead gains force with each iteration, exceeding the event and coming from the past to inhabit everyday scenarios like the carjackings. -
Wild Dogs Come to Campus Sible?” “Why Is This Nasty Trend El Ro D E O S T a F F W R I T Er Let Go of the Sled,” Said Stradley
El Rancho High School • Volume 56 • Issue 3• Friday, November 21, 2008 www.erusd.k12.ca.us/elrancho Ken Waldman, Poet or Musician? It Depends Bottled Drink him playing the fiddle. “I have Sale to Resume on being to I have been to over 160 Monday schools in thirty states. The big- gest challenge is making a sus- BY MA R I cr UZ CAST R O -SP E N cer tainable income,” said Waldman. EL ROD E O STAFF WR IT er The teachers as well as the presenter hoped the students took On Tuesday the sale of something from the presentation. bottled drinks was temporar- “I hope the presentation helped ily suspended due to three sepa- [the students] see Alaska as a real rate incidents in which bottles place by someone who has been were thrown into crowds. Fortu- there and lived there. [But also] nately, the students responsible get a better picture of what Alaska turned themselves in yesterday . is about rather than reading it from During the incident that a book,” said Sorenson. occurred on November 17th, “I hoped that everybody 2008 a female freshman was here would have gotten something hit with a bottled drink on the they wouldn’t normally through forehead requiring her a trip poetry. [For example] Oh I didn’t to the hospital for stitches. know you could write poems like “This type of behavior is that about Cheech and Chong [or] unprecedented at ERHS and is not about a plain crash,” said Waldman a reflection of the great students During the presentation that attend this school.”, said the Waldman did a couple of poetry Guidance Office in the memo and music workshops with the sent out Tuesday to the deans. -
Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 07/29/2019 12:26:21 PM
Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 07/29/2019 12:26:21 PM Enclosed please find informational materials that were forwarded to U.S. media outlets in connection with Wiley Rein’s Aveiro LP representation. Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 07/29/2019 12:26:21 PM Received by NSD/FARA Registration Unit 07/29/2019 12:26:21 PM NEWSLETTER V BATbKIBLUMHA ISSUE 18,18 February 2019 BATKIVSHCHYNA PARTY NEWS 1. Yulia Tymoshenko participates in Munich Security Conference 2. Yulia Tymoshenko: No compromise with the enemy on the issue of ending the war 3. Interview with DW in Munich: Yulia Tymoshenko: Ukraine heading for 'reset' of government 4. Yulia Tymoshenko, Anatoliy Hrytsenko, Andriy Sadovyi, and other candidates unite and sign a Memorandum on fair elections 5. Yulia Tymoshenko meets with representatives of anti-corruption civic organizations 6. Ukraine has lower quality of life than neighboring countries 7. Hromadske TV: Ukrainian lawmaker claims Poroshenko “makes deals" with Putin on a daily basis © yalta european strategy alta european strategy yalta european strategy Munich Security C O inference i Conference! I lOCr pean strategy yalta euroo*-'Mis’ ^ j ySiCherheilskonferenz Munich Seci © Confer© yalta european strategy $ ilta european Munchner S( Munich Secunty/-r-J Of? Conference! IIOU Munich Security ppg© luropean strategy Munchner Sichemeitskonlerenz Munich 2 ms© yalta strategy lertieitskonlerenz ® % yalta european strategy Munchnerson 1. YULIA TYMOSHENKO PARTICIPATES prospects for the economic development IN MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE of our country, and cooperation between On 15-16 February Batkivshchyna Party Ukraine and the IMF. Leader Yulia Tymoshenko together with Yulia Tymoshenko stressed “the need to Deputy Head of Batkivshchyna and continue cooperation with the IMF taking Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada into account the real situation in the Committee on Human Rights Hryhoriy economy and social sphere, so that the Nemyria participated in the Munich issues of the macro-financial stability and Security Conference. -
Public Opinion Survey of Residents of Ukraine
Public Opinion Survey of Residents of Ukraine December 13-27, 2018 Methodology • The survey was conducted by Rating Group Ukraine on behalf of the International Republican Institute’s Center for Insights in Survey Research. • The survey was conducted throughout Ukraine (except for the occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas) from December 13- 27, 2018, through face-to-face interviews at respondents’ homes. • The sample consisted of 2,400 permanent residents of Ukraine aged 18 and older and eligible to vote. It is representative of the general population by gender, age, region, and settlement size. The distribution of population by regions and settlements is based on statistical data of the Central Election Commission from the 2014 parliamentary elections, and the distribution of population by age and gender is based on data from the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine from January 1, 2018. • A multi-stage probability sampling method was used with the random route and “last birthday” methods for respondent selection. • Stage One: The territory of Ukraine was split into 25 administrative regions (24 regions of Ukraine and Kyiv). The survey was conducted throughout all regions of Ukraine, with the exception of the occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas. • Stage Two: The selection of settlements was based on towns and villages. Towns were grouped into subtypes according to their size: • Cities with populations of more than 1 million • Cities with populations of between 500,000-999,000 • Cities with populations of between 100,000-499,000 • Cities with populations of between 50,000-99,000 • Cities with populations of up to 50,000 • Villages Cities and villages were selected by the PPS method (probability proportional to size).