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[FOR DISTRIBUTION] Ukrainian Historical Encounters Series “Ukrainian Historical Encounters Series” Special Event “Ukraine at 30”: Prelude – Three Maidans and a War – A Glimpse Forward September 18 2021/New York NY Forum Venue: Ukrainian Institute of America [Second Floor – Conference Hall] 8:45 am – 9:20 am — Registration 9:20 am – 9:50 am — Forum Word of Welcome Host & Ukrainian Institute of America President Katherine Nalywajko Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations HE Serhii Kyslytsya 9:50 am – 10:55 am — Opening Highlight Session: Prelude to the Last Thirty Years (1984-1990) Chair: Herman Pirchner [President of the American Foreign Policy Council] Speakers: Orest Deychakiwsky [Policy Adviser/US Helsinki Commission 1981-2017] Josef Zissels [Ukrainian Helsinki Group Member 1978-1988; VAAD Co-President] 10:55 am – 11:00 am — Coffee Break 11:00 am – 12:30 pm — Panel Discussion I — The 1st Maidan – The Revolution on Granite/ Independence (1990-1992) Discussion Leader: Marianna Budjeryn [Research Associate/Belfer Center/Harvard University] Panelists: Valeriy Kuchynsky [DCM/Embassy of UA to the US 1992-93; Permanent Rep. of UA to the UN 2000-2006] Roman Popadiuk [Ambassador of the United States to Ukraine 1992-1993] Serhii Plokhii [Director of Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute] 12:30 pm – 1:15 pm - Lunch Break [Second Floor - Visitors’ Room] Exhibit on the First Floor - Coping with Conflict in the Donbas 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm — Panel Discussion II — The 2nd Maidan – The Orange Revolution (2004- 2005) Discussion Leader: Myroslava Gongadze [Chief/Ukrainian Service/Voice of America] Panelists: Borys Tarasyuk [Foreign Minister of Ukraine 1998-2000, 2005-2007] John Herbst [Ambassador of the United States to Ukraine 2003-2006] Adrian Karatnycky [President/Orange Circle 2005-2010] 2:45 pm – 2:50 pm — Coffee Break 2:50 pm – 4:25 pm —Panel Discussion III — The 3rd Maidan and a War – Revolution of Dignity & ATO (2013-2021) Discussion Leader: Glen Howard [President/Jamestown Foundation] Panelists: Andriy Parubiy [Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine 2015-2019] Kurt Volker [US Ambassador to NATO 2008-2009; US Special Envoy to Ukraine 2017-2019] Alexander Motyl [Professor of Political Science/Rutgers University] Special Discussant: Eugene Fishel [Division Chief/ U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research] 4:25 pm – 5:30 pm — Concluding Highlight Session: Looking Forward to Next Thirty Years Chair: Andriy Futey [President of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America] Featured Speakers: Victoria Nuland [United States Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs][TBC] Dmytro Kuleba [Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine] 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Forum Reception [Venue: Third Floor - Visitors’ Room] Featured Remarks: HE Oksana Markarova [Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States] .
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