This event is organised by the Ukrainian Institute London.

DATE: Monday, 28 May 2018

TIME: 7pm 

VENUE: 79 Holland Park  W11 3 SW

Ukraine is at the crossroads: geopolitical, value-based and generational. Four after following the revolution of Kyiv’s Maidan, it boasts a list of achievements and a litany of failures. The discussion if the glass is half-full or half-empty, rages on. With just one year to go to the presidential elections, Ukraine stands up to new challenges: an attack on new anti-corruption institutions and its civil society, growing populism and a risk of flare-up of the conflict in the east of the country. Is the society ready fora rush to make the reforms outcomes irreeversible? Ow is Ukraine on a brink of a rollback?

Talk with Serhiy Leshchenko, Ukrainian MP and journalist.

This event is free but registration is required. Please click here to register.

The eventwill be moderated by Marina Pesenti, Director of Ukrainian Institute London.

Speaker’s bio:

Serhiy Leshchenko is a Kyiv-based journalist, blogger, and press freedom activist, elected in 2014 as Member of Ukrainian Parliament. He is currently Chairperson of the subcommittee on international cooperation and implementation of anti-corruption legislation of the Parliamentary Committee on Corruption Prevention and Counteraction.

He graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and holds a master’s degree in journalism. From 2000 until 2014 he worked for the “Ukrainska Pravda” edition, specialising in anti-corruption investigations and other political reporting. He has helped launching the «Stop Censorship!» movement in 2010 as well as the «Chesno» campaign that called for transparency in the Parliament.

In 2011, Poland’s Foundation of Reporters recognised Mr Leshchenko as the best journalist in countries of the Eastern Partnership. In 2013, Mr Leshchenko was awarded a Press Prize by the Norwegian Fritt Ord Foundation and the German ZEIT Foundation. In 2012, he was awarded a John Smith Fellowship, followed by the Draper-Hills Fellowship at Stanford University in 2013.

Serhii has also been Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy in 2013-2014. Mr Leshchenko was selected as one of Reporters Without Borders’ “100 Information Heroes-2014”. In 2014 he was honoured with the NDI’s Democracy Award.

He has also authored two books: “The American Saga of Pavlo Lazarenko”, focused on investigations conducted by U.S. law enforcement agencies on the former Ukrainian Prime Minister, and “Mezhygirya Syndrom of Viktor Yanukovych”, about corrupt activities of the previous Ukrainian regime.

He regularly writes to Ukrainian and western media and has recently exposed evidence of Paul Manafort’s, Doland Trump’s campaign manager, systematic corruption during his decade spent in Ukraine, to The New York Times. 

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