PROPOSED WITNESSES TO APPEAR BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Study on "the progress of rights and
democracy over the past 10 years” in Ukraine
Monday 5 March 3:30-5:30 pm
"The progress of rights and democracy over the past 10 years and its implications for rule of law and the parliamentary elections in Ukraine."
Halyna Coynash, Kharkiv
Halyna Coynash, representative of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) in Kharkiv, Ukraine, one of the oldest, most active and respected Ukrainian human rights organizations, worked with many other human rights groups in Ukraine, including Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, writes for the journal Telekritika.
Alyona Hetmanchuk, Kyiv
Alyona Hetmanchuk, Director Institute of World Policy, is an experienced journalist, media and NGO manager and foreign policy analyst, awarded by the past President of Ukraine the designation Honoured Journalist of Ukraine.
Oleh Rybachuk, Kyiv
Oleh Rybachuk, Chairman and co-founder of the NGO “Centre UA”, former chief of staff to President Viktor Yushchenko and former Deputy Prime Minister in Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s government, former National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) director of international relations.
Wednesday, 7 March 2012, 3:30-5:30 PM
"The progress of rights and democracy over the past 10 years and its implication for Ukraine's integration into Euro-Atlantic structures.”
The following witnesses will present analysis of the above proposition from the perspective of:
Incarceration of Yulia Tymoshenko
Eugenia Tymoshenko, Kyiv
Eugenia Tymoshenko, daughter of Yulia Tymoshenko.
Yanukovych administration
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, Kyiv
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, past Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), former member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. Current Chairman of the Political Council of “Our Ukraine”, founder of the civic organization National Renewal.
Ukrainian opposition in parliament
Borys Tarasyuk, Kyiv
Borys Tarasyuk, Member of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada, Chairman Verkhovna Rada Committee on Euro-Atlantic Integration, founder Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
EU and Polish government
Marcin Swiecicki, Warsaw
Marcin Swiecicki, Member of Polish Parliament; former Minister for Foreign Economic Relations, Warsaw; past Director of EC/UNDP Blue Ribbon Analytical and Advisory Centre, Kyiv; former Coordinator of Economic and Environmental Activities at the OSCE, Vienna; former Mayor, City of Warsaw.
Russian government
James Sherr, London
James Sherr, Royal Society of International Affairs, Senior Fellow Russia and Eurasia Programme Chatham House, London, lecturer in International Relations at Lincoln College, Oxford, consultant to NATO and the EU on Ukraine.
Russian democratic movement
Andrei Piontkovsky, Moscow
Andrei Piontkovsky, political scientist, journalist, candidate of physical-mathematical sciences, senior researcher Institute of System Analysis Russian Academy of Sciences, member American Mathematical Association, member Russian United Democratic Party “Yabloko”, member Federal Council of Russia.
