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Daria Kaleniuk
Daria Kaleniuk ( uk, Дар'я Каленюк) is a Ukrainian civil society activist who is the executive director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center, based in Kyiv. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kaleniuk came to international media prominence when she asked British prime minister Boris Johnson at a press conference in Warsaw why some London-based Russian oligarchs had not been targeted with sanctions and why he did not support the establishment of a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Kaleniuk was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine and studied law at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University and has a Master of Financial Services Law from Chicago-Kent College of Law, supported by the Fulbright Foreign Student Program. She is a member of the Young Global Leaders. Youth movement Daria Kaleniuk started her civil society activity during student times in Kharkiv where she joined local branch of All-Ukrainian youth NGO “Foundation of Regional Initiatives”. She was coor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invasion, it was the eighth-most populous country in Europe, with a population of around 41 million people. It is also bordered by Belarus to the north; by Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; and by Romania and Moldova to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and largest city. Ukraine's state language is Ukrainian; Russian is also widely spoken, especially in the east and south. During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Yanukovych
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, after a long series of protests in support of closer ties with the European Union by diverse civil-society groups in response to his rejection of the Ukrainian-European Association Agreement. From 2006 to 2007 he was the prime minister of Ukraine; he also served in this post from November 2002 to January 2005, with a short interruption in December 2004. He currently lives in exile in Russia, where he has lived since his removal from office in 2014. Yanukovych served as the governor of Donetsk Oblast, a province in eastern Ukraine, from 1997 to 2002. He was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 21 November 2002 to 7 December 2004 and from 28 December 2004 to 5 January 2005, under President Leonid Kuchma. Yanukovych first ran for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanctions Against Russia
Sanctions, economic or international, that have been imposed on Russia include: * International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War (2014–) ** Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, US legislation (2017) ** International sanctions during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the United States, the European Union, and other countries introduced or significantly expanded sanctions to include Vladimir Putin and other government members, and cut off "selected Rus ... (2022) For sanctions that Russia has imposed on other countries: * (20th21st centuries) * (2014–) * Russia sanctions against Ukraine (2018–) {{Sia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casimir Pulaski Foundation
The Casimir Pulaski Foundation (''Fundacja im. Kazimierza Pułaskiego, FKP'') is an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan think tank based in Warsaw, Poland specializing in foreign policy and security research. The foundation is named after Casimir Pulaski. History Founded in 2004, the foundation concentrates in its research in two areas: transatlantic relations in the context of security policy and research in the post-Soviet sphere of influence. Foundation has been founded by Zbigniew Pisarski. Other points of interests include Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. In 2017 Pulaski Foundation was recognized by the UK Prospect (magazine) with a Think Tank Award 2017 for the Best EU International Affairs Think Tank. Programs and activities The Pulaski Foundation provides strategic analysis and solutions for government policy makers, the private sector and civil society. The Foundation also hosts the Warsaw Security Forum, an annual meeting held every autumn for lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olha Aivazovska
Olha Pavlivna Aivazovska ( uk, Ольга Павлівна Айвазовська; born 9 February 1981 in Zalishchyky Raion, Ternopil Oblast), is a Ukrainian civil society activist. As a member and chair of the board of the non-governmental organisation , she was and is primarily responsible for monitoring elections to ensure freedom and fairness. She also aided in negotiation on the Ukrainian side in the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine on the settlement of the military conflict in the Donbas from 2016 to 2018. Life Education Olha Aivazovska initially studied Ukrainian philology and anthropology, and journalism at the National Bohdan Khmelnytskyi University in Cherkasy. In 2016, she completed the Democracy and Human Rights Programme at the Centre for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, California, as part of a Draper Hills Summer Fellowship that she was selected for. From 2020 onwards she studied law at the Graduate Institute of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olena Halushka
Olena Mykhailivna Halushka (born 28 February 1989) is a Ukrainian politician and activist. She was a member of the Kyiv City Council, a co-founder of the International Center for Ukrainian Victory (ICUV), and Head of International Relations at Kyiv Anti-Corruption Action Centre. Halushka is a contributor to '' Ukrainska Pravda'', the Atlantic Council The Atlantic Council is an American think tank in the field of international affairs, favoring Atlanticism, founded in 1961. It manages sixteen regional centers and functional programs related to international security and global economic prosp ..., ''EUobserver'', ''The Washington Post'', and ''Foreign Policy''. Education In 2005–2009, Olena studied at the University of Lviv, at the Faculty of Economics. From 2012 to 2016, she was a graduate student at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Career January 2010–November 2011: Deputy Executive Director for Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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