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How to Eradicate Lenin from Ukrainian Minds?” 12 December Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 13 December Ukrainian Diplomatic Academy 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
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