French Embassy in Ukraine French Institute in Ukraine Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance European Forum for Ukraine Center for Research on the Liberation Movement
12—13 December 2014 Conference “How to eradicate Lenin from Ukrainian minds?” 12 December Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 13 December Ukrainian Diplomatic Academy
Hall of the scientific council
14:00 — 14:30 OPENING 09:00 — 10:30 SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF DESOVIETISATION IN FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES Viacheslav Kyrylenko, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for humanitarian affairs — Minister for culture (part one) Alain Remy, French Ambassador in Ukraine Volodymyr Viatrovych, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance Moderator: Volodymyr Bugrov, vice-rector of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Galia Ackerman (France) Galia Ackerman, secretary general of the European Forum for Ukraine (France) Panelists: Alexander Vondra (Czech Republic) 14:30 — 16:30 HOW TO ELIMINATE THE TRAUMAS OF A TOTALITARIAN PAST: Krzystof Stanowski (Poland) CYNICISM, FEAR, LACK OF SELF CONFIDENCE Vytautas Landsbergis (Lithuania) Sarmite Elerte (Latvia) Moderator: Exchange about experiences in other former communist countries : how did lustration work? Was there a consensus about necessity for painful Oleksandr Zinchenko (Ukraine) reforms? How did teaching in schools and universities evolve? Was the work undertaken to revive national memory successful? Why was deso- vietisation in Russia a failure? Where does Ukraine stand now? Panelists:
Françoise Thom (France) 10:30 — 11:00 COFFEE BREAK Myroslav Popovych (Ukraine)
Josef Zissels (Ukraine) Danylo Lubkivskiy (Ukraine) 11:00 — 12:30 SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF DESOVIETISATION IN FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES (part two) One of the most disastrous consequences of the Soviet period is the total absence of civic responsibility and the cynicism bred by decades of state-fostered lies : suspicion of a great part of the population towards the concepts of common good, loyal service, social work, responsibility, Moderator: justice . How to defeat cynicism ? How to bring the citizens to accept the necessity of paying taxes, and of putting into practice social solidarity and democratic values. How to teach social responsibility right from the schoolroom? Galia Ackerman (France)
Panelists: 16:30 — 17:00 COFFEE BREAK Toomas Alatalu (Estonia)
Volodymyr Viatrovych (Ukraine) 17:00 — 19:00 HOW TO RID THE NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF HISTORICAL SOVIET MYTHS Thornike Gordadze (Georgia) Lev Gudkov (Russia) Moderator: Vakhtang Kipiani (Ukraine) 12:30 — 13:30 LUNCH Panelists: Stéphane Courtois (France) 13:30 — 15:30 HOW TO DEFEAT SOVIET INERTIA IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Vadym Skurativskiy (Ukraine) AND SOCIAL RELATIONS Yuri Shapoval (Ukraine) Igor Gyrych (Ukraine) Moderator: Igor Schupak (Ukraine) Michel Eltchaninoff (France) Kyrylo Galushko (Ukraine) Panelists: What is the Role of memorial work in the perception and teaching of the past. How to carry out a campaign against the myths of a “just society”. Mykola Kniazhytskiy (Ukraine) Why do many Ukrainians, particularly in the East, feel close to Russia which they erroneously associate with the USSR. It is not enough to Vira Nanivska (Ukraine) concentrate on the crimes of communism. It is imperative to teach right from the classroom the real situation of the “little man” in the USSR: absence of individual rights and freedom even to travel; crushing of the rural sector; absence of private property and freedom of enterprise; Vitaly Portnikov (Ukraine) ideological indoctrination; domination by the Russian people, described as the pillar of the Empire, and destruction of the self esteem of all other ethnic populations. By what means can Ukrainians resist Russian propaganda, especially in the Eastern part of Ukraine, aimed at Yuriy Ruban (Ukraine) describing the USSR as the legal extension of the Russian Empire and today’s post-communist Russia as the prolongation of the USSR ? Semen Gluzman (Ukraine)
Bureaucracy is self reproductive and this process can only be stopped through new laws. How to build a legislative basis to prevent corruption, election frauds, dependency of the judiciary etc? How to lustrate without getting rid of good managers en masse? Is it justified to start lustration without previously adopting new laws and without creating new mechanisms allowing for their effective implementation ? What role can civil society play in controlling the making of new laws and in the process of lustration ? 13 December Ukrainian Diplomatic Academy
Michel Eltchaninoff is a philosopher, editor in chief of the French monthly Philosophie Magazine. Influenced by the phenomenology tradition and Husserl’s work, he has recently published the essay “Dostoevsky, the novel of the body”. He has published numerous articles on the topic of Ukraine and the Russian opposition.
15:30 — 16:00 COFFEE BREAK Kyrylo Galushko is a Ukrainian historian (PhD) and ethnosociologist. He coordinates the “LIKBEZ. The Historical Front” educational project and serves as the Head of All-Ukrainian Humanities Society, associate professor at the Institute of Sociology, Psychology and Administration of the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University and senior staff scientist at the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He published numerous articles in history and the book “The Ukrainian Nationalism: a Briefing for Russians, or Who and Why Invented Ukraine”. 16:00 — 18:00 HOW ECONOMY CHANGES MINDSETS Semen Gluzman is a Ukrainian psychiatrist, human rights activist, ex-political dissident and Soviet political prisoner. He is Moderator: the President of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association and Director of the American-Ukrainian Bureau for Human Rights and сo-chairperson of the Babi Yar Committee. Gluzman was given the title of a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatry Natalia Popovych (Ukraine) Association, the title of an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the title of a Fellow of the German Psychiatrists and Neurologists Society. In November, 1971 Gluzman wrote a psychiatric report on General Petro Grygorenko who spoke against the human rights abuses in the Soviet Union, that Grygorenko was mentally sane and had been taken to mental Panelists: hospitals for political reasons. For this case Gluzman was forced to serve seven years in labor camp and three years in Siberian. George Logush (Ukraine) He was one of the co-founders of the of the First of December Initiative. Oksana Prodan (Ukraine) Thornike Gordadze is a Georgian – French binational politician and political scientist. He joined the government of Georgia in June 2010 when he was appointed Deputy Foreign Ministry in charge of the relations with the European Union. He served shortly Valerii Pekar (Ukraine) as Georgia’s State Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration in 2012. He is actually a professor of political sciences at the IHEDN. Pavlo Illiashenko (Ukraine) Lev Gudkov, born 1946 in Moscow, is a Russian sociologist, director of the analytical Levada Center and editor-in-chief of the journal The Russian Public Opinion Herald. Huge differences remain between East and West Ukraine. If many West Ukrainians live and work in Central and Western Europe, most East Ukrainians not only has never been abroad (not even to Kiev) but have never even left their region. The East’s economy is still dominated by Igor Gyrych is a Ukrainian historian (PhD) and journalist. He is the editor-in-chief of the “Monuments of Ukraine” journal, Head large businesses, often administered as in the Soviet era, with workers and employees often remaining entirely dependent on mine-owners and of the Department at the Grushevskyi Ukrainian Archaeography and Source Study Institute of the National Academy of Sciences factory bosses. Small and medium enterprises remain underdeveloped, especially in the Donbass. of Ukraine. Specializes in history of culture and political thought issues, and sourse studies.
What can be done to evolve? Facilitate exchanges between students of East and West; encourage workers to move by making them welcome Pavlo Illiashenko is a Ukrainian financial expert, senior economic strategist at AYA Capital company. He has been working in other cities; promote micro-credit for small businesses; train a new generation of entrepreneurs (from services to high technology). What at stock exchange since 2006. Also he is a member of Ukrainian Exchange Index Commitee. Gives open lectures and makes would be the role of these new generations in bringing about a change in mindsets and in the economic and social climate? What requirements workshops on macroeconomix, financial markets, economic history and making investment decisions psychology. should be met (fair elections, an independent judiciary, a free press) in order to “eradicate Lenin from Ukrainian minds” and build one’s own life oneself ? Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian Statesman, born 18 October 1932 in Kaunas, has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2004. He began his political career in 1988 as one of the founders of Sąjūdis, the Lithuanian pro-independence political movement and was the first head of state of Lithuania after the country declared its independence from the Soviet 18:00 — 18:30 CLOSING SESSION «QUO VADIS?» Union, and served as the Head of the Lithuanian Parliament Seimas. Professor Landsbergis is an intellectual who has been active in Lithuania’s political scene for more than two decades, and is a notable politician who helped contribute to the demise of the Soviet Union. Moderators: Vakhtang Kipiani is a Ukrainian journalist, historian and civic activist. He is the editor-in-chief of the “Historical Truth” Internet Volodymyr Viatrovitch (Ukraine) project and “Vladometr” (“Authorities assessment”) project, the anchorman of the “Historical Truth with Vakhtang Kipiani” TV Galia Ackerman (France) show at “ZIK” TV channel. He gives lectures at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla academy” and the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Mykola Kniazhytskiy is a Ukrainian journalist and media-manager. Member of Parliament, Head of the Culture and Spirituality Commitee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Founder of the “Espresso TV” channel. He was a member of the National Broadcasting Council of Ukraine, the President of the National Television Company of Ukraine. He directed the “Gazeta 24” newspaper and “Tonis” and “STB” TV channels.
Viacheslav Kyrylenko is a Ukrainian civic activist and politician, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Culture of Ukraine. He was a people’s deputy of Ukraine between the 3rd and 6th and of the 8th convocations. Also he was a member of the Galia Ackerman is a writer, historian, journalist and French-Russian translator, an expert of Russia and post-Soviet People’s Movement of Ukraine’s Central Leadership Presidium, the head of the “Our Ukraine”, “Our Ukraine” People’s Union” and world. She is the author of numerous books, including ‘Chernobyl, a look back on a disaster’ (2006) and ‘Femen’ (2013). She “Our Ukraine - People’s Self-Defence” parliamentary groups between 2006 and 2008, the Minister of Labour and Social Policy and is a co-founder and Secretary General of the European Forum for Ukraine. Vice Prime Minister betwen 2005 and 2006.
Toomas Alatalu, political scientist and Estonian politician. From 1992 to 2007 he was elected three times to the Estonian George Logush is a Ukrainian economist. President of the Kyiv School of Economics. He was a senator and pro-rector on Parliament and worked in its foreign relations committee. Between 1993 and 1999 he was a member of the Presidium of the strategics and development programme at the Ukrainian Catholic University, Chairman of the Board at the Lviv Business School Baltic Assembly. Between 2007 and 2012 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Internationa relations of the „Eurouniversity“ and a member of the Supervisory Board of the International Management Instiute (Kyiv). Also he held positions of assistant in Tallinn. dean and deputy dean, professor and director of the International Business Institute at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business (New York). Mr Logush has rich experience of business work: he was a CEO at RJ Reynolds Tobacco International Volodymyr Bugrov is a Ukrainian philosopher, pedagogue and university professor. He is currently the pro-rector on Ukraine and KPMG/Barents Group Ukraine and Kraft Foods. Later he was the Chairman of Board of “Kraft Foods Ukraine”. As a scientific and pedagogic work at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and acting head of the History of Philosophy consulting specialist he worked in the USA, Romania and Ukraine. Co-founder of the following social projects: “Crowning of the Department at Philosophical Faculty, Deputy Head of the Philosophical Methodological comission at the Ministry of Word”, “Karnavaliya” and “Gold Writers of Ukraine”. Education and Science of Ukraine, Head of the Methodological council at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Prof. Bugrov is Ph. D. and author of numerous scientific and methodological works. Danylo Lubkivskiy is a Ukrainian diplomat and civic activist. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Head of the National commission of Ukraine for UNESCO. He worked at the Minister of Foreign Affairs’ office and was the Foreign Ministry heads’ Stéphane Courtois, born 1947, is a French historian and university professor, a Director of research at the French assistant and advisor, was a member of the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations (New York). He took part in National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Professor at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies (ICES) in La Roche- activities in behalf of Ukraine within the UN Security Council and General Assembly, EU, NATO and European Council international sur-Yon, and Director of a collection specialized in the history of communist movements and regimes. He was particularly conferences and forums. involved in the project of the Black Book of Communism (1997), which he coordinated and prefaced. Vira Nanivska is a Ukrainian expert on public administration and reforming political institutions, director of her own Political Sarmīte Ēlerte, born in Riga (former Soviet Union) in 1957, is a Latvian politician and journalist, member of the Party school, Chairperson of the Supervisory Board at East European Territotial Service and Local Self-Government Collegium. Between Civic Union (PS), later known as the Party of Unity. She served as the Minister of Culture between 2010 and 2011. She is 2006 and 2009 she was the President of the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine. She now leading the opposition fraction in Riga’s municipal counsіl and is the chairperson of the international NGO “Baltic to directed the elaboration of the public economic education programmes at the Permanent Mission of the World Bank in Ukraine Black Sea Alliance”. and led the Lviv city institute and the International Centre for Policy Studies (ICPS).
Valerii Pekar is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and civic activist. Member of the Board at the UFI — The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (kmbs) and Lviv Business School (LvBS) of the Ukrainian Catholic University. Co-founded the “New Country” Civic Platform. He published over 250 articles on management, marketing, IT and futurology.
Myroslav Popovych is a Ukrainian philosopher, director of the Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, head of the Logic and Methodology of Science Department of the Institute of Philosophy. Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doktor Nauk (Doctor of Science), professor. He is an expert in culturology, logic and mеthodology of science and history of the Ukrainian culture. Prof. Popovych was the head of the first cell of the People’s Movement of Ukraine and is a member of the First of December Initiative. National Taras Shevchenko prize laureate in 2001, holder of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (2005) and Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (2005).
Natalia Popovych is the president of PRP Group consulting agency, co-founder and member of the Board at the Ukrainian Public Relations Association, co-chairperson of the first PR Commitee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine and founder of “Discover Ukraine” initiative. Graduated from Kyiv-Mohyla academy (MA in political science) and San Jose State University in California, USA (MA in journalism and mass communications). Guest lecturer at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (kmbs).
Vitaly Portnikov is a Ukrainian journalist. Editor-in-chief at the “TVi” TV channel. He worked at such periodicals as: “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” (Moscow), “Dzerkalo Tyzhnia” (Kyiv), “Den” (Kyiv), “Korrespondent” (Kyiv), “Gazeta Wyborcza” (Warsaw), “Gazeta 24” etc and hosted journalistic and analytical shows at “STB”, “ІCTV”, TVi” TV channels etc.
Oksana Prodan is a Ukrainian politician and civic activist. CEO at the Entrepreneur Protection Centre, head of the “Fortress” All-Ukrainian Small and Middle Business Association, Member of Parliament. She was the head of the Foreign-Economic Activity Council under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (CMU), head of the Entrepreneur Council under the CMU between 2008 and 2010 and the head of the Entrepreneur Protection Commitee under the Opposition Government between 2010 and 2011.
Yuriy Ruban is a Ukrainian politician and journalist, Chief of the Head Department for Humanitarian Policy of the Presidential Administration. President of the “Velyka Rodyna” (“Big Family”) Fund. He was the director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies between 2005 and 2010, out-of-staff counsellor of the President of Ukraine. In 2007 he was a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. Also he took part in the National Constitutional Counsil, worked at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine. He is currently member of the Organizing committee of the All-Ukrainian Intelligentsia Forum.
Vadym Skurativskiy is a Ukrainian art critic, historian and expert in literature. He is academic of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine, professor at Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv National University of Theatre, Film and TV, doctor of Arts, PhD in philology. A member of the First of December Initiative. Published numerous articles and books on the history of Ukrainian, Russian and Western literature, general history, philosophy of history, history of cinema and TV. Was the author-presenter of the documentary TV series “Fresh look on the history”, “Monologues. Hopes and Losses”, “See the sole”.
Yuriy Shapoval is a Ukrainian historian, Director of the “Encyclopaedic Publising House” State Scientific Agency, head of the Ethnopolitical Studies Department and director of Historial Political Science Centre at the I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Doctor of Science (Doktor nauk) in history, professor. He published numerous scientific works, tens of books and monographs, which cover the political history of Ukraine in 20th century and the history of communist totalitarianism. Igor Schupak is a Ukrainian historian, director of the “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies and “Memory of the Jewish People and Holocaust in Ukraine” Museum (Dnipropetrovsk). PhD in history and PhD of the University of Toronto.
Françoise Thom is a French historian and sovietologist, professor in contemporary history at the university Paris-Sorbonne and author of numerous books on the subject. She is the author in particular of a monumental biography of Beria (2013), published under the title “Beria, Kremlin’s Janus”.
Alexandr Vondra, a prominent Czech politician and former senator, signatory of the Charter 77 in 1987 and its spokesperson from January 1989 until 1990. A political prisoner for two months in 1989, he became one of the founding members of the Civic Forum during the Velvet Revolution which started in November of the same year. A foreign policy advisor to President Václav Havel, then Czech Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Vondra eventually served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs and Minister of Defence between 2006 and 2012. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Transatlantic Relations at CEVRO Institute in Prague.
Volodymyr Vyatrovych is a Ukrainian historian (PhD), publicist, and civic activist. Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance. Supervisor of studies at the Liberation Movement Electronic Archives project. As the Director of the Security Service of Ukraine Archives in 2008-2010, he opened the KGB archives to the public. Later he initiated the Digital Archive of KGB- documents. He gives lectures at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. A senior visiting scholar at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute between 2010 and 2011. Co-founder of The Lontsky Prison National Memorial Museum in Lviv, at the site of the previous KGB and Gestapo prison.
Oleksandr Zinchenko is a Ukrainian historian and journalist. Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance and editor of the “Historical Truth” Internet project. He worked as an editor and researcher at “07 Production” documentary studio at “Inter” TV channel. In 2011 he published a book “The Parrot Time” on the Ukrainian pages of the Katyn tragedy. The materials compiled by him became the backgrounds for the “Katyn: The Letters from Heaven” film by Oleksiy Bobrovnikov.
Josef Zissels is a Ukrainian civic activist, ex-dissident and ex-political prisoner of the USSR. Head of the Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities of Ukraine (VAAD), Executive Vice President of the Congress of National Communities of Ukraine. He has been a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki group since 1978 and was imprisoned for his political activity for 6 years in total. Український Інститут Національної Пам’яті
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