Presentation of Chatham House Report ‘The Struggle for Ukraine’
Date and time:
Monday 4 December, 2017
19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Ukrainian Institute London
79 Holland Park
London
W11 3SW
Four years on from its Euromaidan revolution, Ukraine is fighting for survival as an independent and viable state. Chatham House, the leading think-tank in the UK has recently produced a multi-author report "The Struggle for Ukraine" which will be presented at the Ukrainian Institute London by Orysia Lutsevych, Manager, Chatham House Ukraine Forum, and James Nixey, Head, Chatham House Russia and Eurasia Programme.
The report covers six critical areas: geopolitics and security in the context of the conflict with Russia; European integration and the demands of the Association Agreement; economic reform; governance, democratization and the media; the role of civil society in reforms; and efforts to combat corruption.
See the summary and recommendations of the report here.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Janet Gunn
Janet Gunn has worked for many years as a research analyst in the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO), focusing on the Eastern union and the Soviet Union and its successor states. She served in various embassies, including Moscow and Kyiv. In Kyiv, she reported on political developments following the Orange Revolution. In 2007-8 she worked in the EU Border Assistance Mission to Ukraine and Moldova, based in Odesa. She has participated in many OSCE election observer missions in the region, including in 2004 and 2014.
Speaker
James Nixey
James Nixey is Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme. His principal expertise concerns the relationships between Russia and the other post-Soviet states. He has published papers and articles in books and journals and commented extensively in the national and global media. He has also organised hundreds of private expert roundtables on Russian and Eurasian affairs while at Chatham House. Publications include The Long Goodbye: Waning Russian Influence in The South Caucasus and Central Asia, 'Russia’s Geopolitical Compass: Losing Direction' in, Putin Again: Implications for Russia and the West, and 'The South Caucasus: Drama on Three Stages' in A Question of Leadership: America’s Role in a Changed World. He has experience in journalism (as a reporter in Moscow in the late 1990s) and the banking sector.
