Section: Ukrainian Institute, London (UK)
London’s top Ukrainian Business Event of the Year to take place this week
This Week in London – the 9th annual Ukrainian Investment Summit, taking place on December 9/10 at theRiverbank Plaza Hotel in London. The speaker line-up is now finalised! The final additions to the speaker panels include: Mohammad Zahoor, the Chairman of ISTIL Group and owner of the Kyiv Post newspaper, who will join the session of CASE STUDIES...
Ukraine’s forbidden Church marks 25 years of freedom
25 years ago I belonged to the single largest banned religious community in the world. The Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church was, until December 1989, the most sizeable officially banned religious organisation, persecuted by Soviet authorities for 43 years. The Church, somewhat miraculously, managed to survive “underground”, in the Gulags, in exile...
Andrew Wilson talks about his new book ‘Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West’
We are delighted to invite you to a talk on Thursday, November 13th, at 7.00PM at the Ukrainian Institute, London, 79, Holland Park, London, W11 3SW Andrew Wilson will discuss his latest book Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West, which was published on 14 October, as both paperback and e-book. You can read an extract here, or listen to a...
Ukraine’s newly elected Member of Parliament to talk at the Ukrainian Institute
We are delighted to invite you to a talk “From Revolution in the Streets, to Revolution in the Offices of Power” by Svitlana Zalishchuk, newly elected Ukrainian MP, which will take place on Tuesday, November 11th, 7.00PM, at the Ukrainian Institute, London. Ms Zalishchuk will talk on how the results of October’s parliamentary elections may...
Founder of London’s Ukrainian Business Centre elected to Ukraine’s parliament
Ruslan Demchak, the founder and owner of Ukrainian Business Centre in London has been elected to the Ukrainian Parliament in October’s election. Ruslan was elected as the member of Petro Poroshenko Bloc in the Vinnitsa region. Mr Demchak received 43,955 votes (51.68%), whilst his opponents Alexander Kachur from Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko...
BBC Panorama’s John Sweeney to hold a talk at the Ukrainian Institute
BBC Panorama reporter John Sweeney will hold a talk at the Ukrainian Institute on November 7, about his film, Putin’s Gamble, which set out the evidence that the Russian army tipped the balance in the war in Ukraine and that the BUK crew who shot down MH17 were from the Russian army. The title of the talk will be “What about the killings in...
War and Reforms in Ukraine: An Impossible Duo? – panel discussion
VoxUkraine and Ukrainian Institute in London present a panel discussion “War and Reforms in Ukraine: An Impossible Duo?” Thursday, 16 October 2014, 7.00PM at the Ukrainian Institute in London, 79 Holland Park, London W11 3SW The discussion will cover the latest political and economic developments in Ukraine with a focus on reform agenda and the...
Bishop Borys Gudziak to talk on the Hardship of Hybrid War and the Challenges of Authentic Peace in Ukraine Today
We are delighted to invite you to a talk: “The Hybrid War and the Challenges of Authentic Peace”– by Bishop Borys Gudziak, President of the Ukrainian Catholic University, which will take place on Monday, October 13th, 7.00PM at the Ukrainian Institute in London. Bishop Borys, a prominent public authority in Ukraine, will share his insight and...
Yevhen Hlibovytsky presents in London a new set of assumptions for what Ukraine is, and is not
On Monday, September 22, 2014 Yevhen Hlibovetsky made a presentation at the Ukrainian Institute in London with a title ‘Reintroducing Ukraine: a new set of assumptions for what Ukraine is, and is not.’ He talked about the evolution of values in Ukraine, changes in institutions and a new role for Ukraine in the region. He outlined recent...
British Library selects website of the Ukrainian Institute in London for archive preservation for future generations
The website of the Ukrainian Institute has been included in the UK Web Archive, an initiative of the British Library, with a purpose to give permanent online access to key UK websites for future generations. The Archive contains sites that reflect the rich diversity of lives and interests throughout the UK. As many UK websites are constantly...
