To solve several pressing problems in the anti-corruption sector in the summer of 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law of Ukraine «On amendments to some legislative acts of Ukraine on strengthening transparency in property relations to prevent corruption» which entered into force on 6 October 2015. The law provides for the opening of State property registers, as well as access to information on the owners of registered vehicles, real property and land parcels from the State land cadastre.

The law has been in operation for almost a year, over a while, information on the property of officials has become public, which has made it much easier to detect signs of corruption, illicit enrichment, or attempts by officials to conceal property.

However, several problems remain in the operation of the Unified State Register of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Land Cadastre, and the State Register of Real Property Rights. In particular, these databases contain incomplete information on assets, as a large part of the documents is still not advertised, and records on transport registered before 2012 are not entered. There are problems in finding information and identifying the persons who own the property.

The preparation and presentation of analytical reports in the Shadow Report format is part of the project embodied by the Agency for Legislative Initiatives, supported by the USAID Rada Program: Responsible Accountable Democratic Assembly, implemented by the East Europe Foundation.

Within the framework of the USPS publishing program, presentations of the translation of the book by the Polish scientist Marta Studenna-Skrukva “Ukrainian Donbas. The face of regional identity” took place. The translation was published with the support of the Agency for Legislative Initiatives and the International Renaissance Foundation.

In the field of scientific interests of the author from Poland are the regional identities of Eastern Europe, in particular the so-called border zone between Ukraine and Russia. The author is also interested in the concept of “Russian culture of Ukraine”.

The author focused on the scientific literature of her subject, extensive sociological material, journalists’ articles of the Ukrainian independence period, published documents, various narrative sources, Internet resources, and unpublished Ukrainian (including Donetsk) researchers.

Marta Studenna-Skrukwa’s book can be considered one of the first pieces of regional identity – the focus of her research is Donbas. The scientist has done a great job analyzing many sources and exploring various aspects of the region’s existence.

“Ukrainian Donbas. The face of regional identity “- an excellent example of multidisciplinary research that combines methods and approaches of different disciplines.

Copies of the book are available at the Agency for Legislative Initiatives Office upon prior request.

Since the Orange Revolution of 2005, fighting corruption has been high on the political agenda in Ukraine. But Transparency International’s (TI) recently published National Integrity System assessment (NIS) shows little progress in halting the tide of corruption.Published by TORO, TI’s partner in Ukraine, the NIS assessment is a comprehensive analysis of the country’s anti-corruption system in law as well as in practice. Ukraine scores 2.4 in the 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index, which indicates widespread perceptions of corruption.

NIS assessments evaluate the key institutions and actors of a country’s governance system in terms of their internal corruption risks and their contributions to fighting corruption in society at large. When all the components of the National Integrity System function properly, corruption remains in check. Where there are gaps and weaknesses, corruption is likely to thrive.

The report shows that overall Ukraine’s integrity system is weak. The main political parties show little political will to tackle corruption through legal reforms or by addressing citizens’ concerns. There are four main areas of concern:

• Lack of financial and human resources to fight corruption
• Limited legal framework
• Limited enforcement
• Poor interaction between institutions

The one bright spot is the Supreme Audit Institution, which outperformed all other institutions primarily because it has sufficient resources, a will to promote transparency and close relationships with similar organisations in other countries.

The report features a number of key recommendations, including stricter party financing rules and electoral reforms.

The Reform Support Network, the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, and the Civic Assembly of Ukraine consider it inadmissible to deny public access to the information on the functioning of the self-governance bodies and their officials, in particular shortly before the next local elections. We are deeply indignant about the frequent cases of physical violence against public figures which monitor the election campaign.

On 14 September 2010, in Kherson, during the report made by the City Mayor Volodymyr Saldo, some unknown individuals beat Dementiy Bilyi, Head of Kherson Office of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine and journalist of the Free Choice newspaper. Violating the legislative guarantees of the journalistic activities, first, the security did not want to let him (as well as other journalists and as number of opposition deputies) into the whole, the Mayor was reporting, and later some unknown individuals caused Mr Bilyi some injures after he tried to address the Mayor publicly in order to find out why the any access to the event was denied. As a result, the journalist has had hypertonic crisis and cerebral contusion.

The Reform Support Network, the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, and the Civic Assembly of Ukraine see in the actions of the unknown individuals the crimes that are subject to the Criminal Code of Ukraine, in particular, obstruction of the journalists work and causing bodily injury. In addition, the incident is yet another damage to the international image of Ukraine, in particular soon before Ukraine’s presidency in the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (May – November 2011).

We call on the public authorities of Ukraine to react to the situation and apply the relevant sanctions in accordance with the Ukrainian Constitution and laws. In particular, we call on the President of Ukraine, the Ombudsman, the Parliamentary Committee for Freedom of Speech and Information, as well as the Parliamentary Committee for Human Rights, National Minorities, and Interethnic Relations.

We call on the international community, in particular the Reporters Without Borders, to give international publicity to the described case, which goes in line with the reversal of democracy in Ukraine, as well as to mention this instance in the reports issued by monitoring organizations.

Finally, we call on the Mayor of Kherson Volodymyr Saldo to apologize publicly to Dementiy Bilyi for the incident that occurred at the event arranged by the city authorities and to organize another event for the public of the city in presence of everybody interested.

16.09.2010

Reform Support Network, Committee of Voters of Ukraine, Civic Assembly of Ukraine Statement

According to the fact that constitutional reform 2004 didn’t have a desirable result – formation of a well-balanced system of power – the idea of a new constitutional review became more and more popular among politicians and experts. This review is supposed to form more efficient authorities’ structure, clarify political responsibility of decisions makers and help to solve problems, which were not taken to account in 2004, particularly – reformation of the system of local power, administrative and territorial division and competence of the Constitutional Court.

Despite common understanding of defects of the Constitution in its current redaction, politicians and experts have different views upon the constitutional reform. Accordingly, there is no unity of views about the most optimal constitutional amendments mechanisms: some politicians and experts propose to review the Constitution in the order that is prescribed by it, while others support the idea of national referendum conducting.

So, the aim of the conference was to define with the help of different politicians, representatives of leading think tanks, scientists and international specialists which constitutional amendments mechanisms and limits correspond to the main current political problems, collective interests and provide consolidation of society.

The conference consisted of two plenary sessions:

• Constitutional reform: content and limits of constitutional transformations in the context of the interests of society, authority and opposition
• Constitutional amendments mechanisms: problems and solutions

Materials of the conference prepared by experts of the Agency for legislative initiatives

On 16-18 February 2007, Odessa hosted the Public Forum “Constitutional Reform: the View of the Civil Society”. The discussion was initiated and organised by the Agency for Legislative Initiates (Kyiv), the Council of Europe, and a number of expert institutions of Donetsk, Lutsk, Sumy, Zaporizhzhya, Luhansk, and Kherson. The Forum was also supported by Joint Programme of the Council of Europe and the European Commission “Support to Democratic Processes in Southern Caucuses and Ukraine”.

The Forum aimed to ensure a possibility to discuss the results and further priorities and prospects for the development of the constitutional reform in Ukraine, as well as to prepare recommendations of the next steps to be taken to secure effective functioning of public authorities and local self-governance bodies in Ukraine.

In particular, the following issues were discussed:

• Constitutional Reform in Ukraine: Assessment of Results;
• Prospects of Further Reform of the Public Authorities in Ukraine;
• New Format of Relations in the Parliament-President-Government Triangle:
• Constitutional Reform and Local Self-Governance.

The forum collected about 130 participants from 20 regions of Ukraine (90 participants and 35 media representatives):

1) NGO and think tank experts;
2) Members of local councils and political parties representatives;
3) Media;
4) Members of the Verkhovna Rada and other high level state authorities;
5) Representatives of the CoE Directorate General for Political Affairs and other international institutions.

Speakers

• Ihor KOHUT, Chairman of the Board, Agency for Legislative Initiatives;
• Oleksandr PROKOPENKO, Secretary of Odessa City Council;
• Mykola TYNDYUK, Deputy Head of the Odessa Regional Council;
• Plamen NIKOLOV, Adviser of the Directorate General of Political Affairs, Council of Europe;
• Vladyslav LUKYANOV, MP, Deputy Head of the Committee on State Building, Regional Policy and Local Governments;
• Thomas MARKERT, Deputy Secretary of the Venice Commission, Council of Europe;
• Anatoliy MATVIENKO, MP, First Deputy Head of the Committee on State Building, Regional Policy and Local Governments;
• Mykola KOZYUBRA, Member of the National Commission for Strengthening Democracy and Rule of Law, resigned judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Doctor of Sciences in Law, Professor;
• Sergyi HRYNOVETSKYI, Member of the Odessa Regional Council;
• Sergio BARTOLE, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Trieste, substitute member of the Venice Commission;
• Volodymyr FESENKO, Director of the Center of Applied Political Studies «Penta»;
• Denys KOVRYZHENKO, Expert, Agency for Legislative Initiatives;
• Michel GUEGAN, Vice-Chair of the Institutional Committee, Chamber of Local Authorities, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities;
• Volodymyr SHAPOVAL, Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, resigned judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Doctor of Sciences in Law, Professor;
• Anatoliy SELIVANOV, Representative of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Doctor of Sciences in Law, Professor;
• Yuriy KLUCHKOVSKYI, MP;
• Victor TYMOSCHUK, Head of the Centre for Political and Legal Reforms;
• Taras CHORNOVIL, MP;
• Oleksiy HARAN, Professor of the National University Kyiv Mohyla Academy, School for Political Analyses;
• Oleksandr STARYNETS, Head of the Secretariat of the Socialist party faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

Openning

At the Opening Ceremony, the Forum participants were welcomed by the organisers, representatives of Odesa authorities, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Council of Europe, and the Venice Commission. In his welcoming speech, Mr Ihor Kohut, Chairman of the Board of the Agency for Legislative Initiativesstressed how important it is to assess the results of the constitutional reform in Ukraine from the positions of the civil society, as well as emphasised the necessity of rational comprehension of the process whereby cooperation between different branches of power is formed and the new system of local self-governance is built in Ukraine. Mr Oleksandr Prokopenko, Secretary of Odesa City Council mentioned that the improvement of the local self-governance is the basis of democratic transformations, while its improper system generates social and political complications. Mr Mykola Tyndyuk, Deputy Chairman of Odesa City Council reminded that the people is the bearer of power in Ukraine, therefore the constitutional reform and definition of the legal framework of political responsibility shall be discussed not only by the politicians, but also the public in general; in this context, there is a need to pass the laws on the President of Ukraine, on the parliamentary opposition, as well as to amend the Cabinet of Ministers Act. Mr Plamen Nikolov, representative of the Directorate General for Political Affairs of the Council of Europe stressed the necessity of cooperation between public authorities and the civil society sector. Mr Vladyslav Lukiyanov,Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Public Authorities Development, Regional Policy, and Local Self-Governance pointed out that the main problem in the triangle of public authorities in Ukraine is not the issue of division of powers, but rather the correlation of rights and powers, which brings about the necessity to pass the laws on the status of a citizen and on central executive authorities, as well as make the necessary amendments to the Cabinet of Ministers Act. Mr Thomas Markert, Deputy Secretary of the Venice Commission recalled the history of cooperation between the Venice Commission and Ukraine and said that the democratic progress in the country were obvious; however, at the current moment there was a need to solve the problems of relations between public authorities and efficient division of powers.

Panel 1: “Constitutional Reform in Ukraine: Assessment of Results”

The main aim of the Plenary Session “Constitutional Reform in Ukraine: Assessment of Results” was to discuss the prospect of the constitutional reform in Ukraine, and to define the priorities of further transformations and steps to be made to ensure efficient functioning of public authorities and local self-governance in Ukraine.  The participants of the panel have agreed that the main aim of cooperation within the power triangle “the President – the Parliament – the Government” is unclear and unbalanced division of powers between the branches of powers. One of the preconditions for the solution of this problem is the local self-governance reform with due account of the subsidiarity principle.

MP Anatoliy Matvienko stressed that the main task of the constitutional reform is to ensure existence of responsible government system and stable society. Having analysed the history of the constitutional reform he noted that the calls for a new constitution threaten the lost of the achievements of the current one, therefore any further reforms shall aim to ensure the balance of powers and their division in order to eliminate the threat of war between the branches of power. In this context, one of the important mechanisms is the local self-governance reform which shall become the first step towards efficient and structured division of powers. Mr Matvienko also supported Bill No. 3207 (new No. 0900) and blamed those who frighten the President by the loss of powers due to its adoption.

Mr Mykola Kozyubra, Head of the State and Legal Sciences Department of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, said that different political forces had had different motives when they had been backing the constitutional reform. The main problem, however, was that the political elite was not striving to observe the constitutional provisions, “to live in accordance with the Constitution”. Therefore, it is not possible to say that the 1996 Constitution has exhausted itself, and therefore its further refer shall be aiming not at the redistribution of powers between the power centre, but rather decrease of the number of discretional powers, i.e. those that can be exercised by a certain authority on its own.

According to Mr Sergio Bartol, Professor of Constitutional Law of the University of Trieste and Deputy Chairman of the Venice Commission, the studies of the Ukrainian system of power performed by the Venice Commission have become a constant element of constitutional debates. The main conclusion proposed for discussion concerned the danger of direct implementation of the powers of public authorities envisaged by the constitutional reform. In the speaker’s opinion, the balance of power and prevention of its concentration in the hands of the executive powers can be achieved through distribution of power at two levels: vertical which envisages its division into legislative, executive, and judicial, and horizontal which includes the separation of powers between the state and the local self-governance.

Mr Serhiy Hrynevetskyi, Member of Odesa Oblast Council stressed the necessity to separate parliamentary and local elections in time, to abolish the system of proportional representations at elections to oblast and district councils, to introduce a bicameral parliament and election of the heads of oblasts and districts in order to improve the efficiency of the operation of local self-governance bodies.

Mr Volodymr Fesenko, Director of the Penta Centre for Applied Political Studies underlined that even though the discussion of the constitutional reform is focused on the issues of the constitutional law, the process of transformations is politico-legal. Having assessed positive and negative consequences of the constitutional amendments, as well as have outlined the present day problems, the speaker analysed the possible scenarios of further transformations which shall envisage a comprehensive character of amendments to the legislation, improvement of the operation procedure of the Constitutional Court, and termination of war between the main actors of the constitutional process.

Mr Denys Kovryzhenko, expert of the Agency for Legislative Initiatives analysed the consequences of the constitutional reform and outlined the further steps in the process of reform of the system of powers in Ukraine, which shall concern regulatory and institutional transformations.

Panel 2: “Prospects of Further Reform of the Public Authorities in Ukraine”

Participants of the Plenary Session “Prospects of Further Reform of Public Authorities in Ukraine” discussed the prospects and priorities of the constitutional reform in Ukraine. The participants defined the general vectors and specific steps to be made for the further reform of the constitutional system; in particular they include amendment of only those constitutional provisions that need to be objectively changed (the local self-governance reform, balancing of powers etc) on the basis of the sole reconciled concept; broader involvement of the public into the process of political decision-making; improvement of transparency of the operation of public authorities at all levels; adoption of laws that will bring the system of public authorities, their functions and powers closer to the democratic standards; further strengthening of the parliamentary oversight powers; implementation of the administrative reform; development of a reconciled concept of the administrative and territorial reform and local self-governance reform; and reform of law-enforcement authorities.

Mr Michel GUEGAN, Vice Chairman of the Institutional Committee of the Local Authorities Chamber of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe mentioned that the way of democratic development of the local self-governance shall envisage that the smallest local self-governance subject should realise their role. The main problem in Ukraine is lack of political will necessary for the development of local self-governance due to the fear of responsibility and personal interests of politicians.

Outlining further steps in the process of constitutional reform, Mr Volodymyr Shapoval, Representative of the President of Ukraine to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and a retired judge of the Constitutional Court stressed the necessity to separate the powers of local state administrations and local self-governance bodies, to define the powers of regional self-governance, to provide the local self-governance with its financial basis, to implement the administrative and territorial reform, as well as to set up efficient mechanisms for the conduct of local referenda. According to the speaker, there is a need for deep and systemic constitutional amendments, otherwise there will only be sporadic attempts to solve individual issues in which only certain people are interested in. However, adoption of the law on the President is not to the point, as the status of the head of state is defined by the Constitution, and therefore the regulation subject of the law on the President is unclear.

Mr Anatoliy Selivanov, Permanent Representative of the Verkhovna Rada in the Constitutional Court described the constitutional reform as the result of negotiations and a political compromise, since it was done not only for the government powers, but also for the transfer to a new election system, i.e. the changes had a common constitutional and legal nature. Further transformations shall concern the functioning of the local self-governance system, the judiciary, and the public prosecution system.

Defining the context of the constitutional reform, MP Yuriy Klyuchkovskyi stressed the necessity to interpret many new constitutional provisions that adversely affect the efficiency of the government system. By their nature, the powers of the President shall find themselves in the area of executive authorities. In Ukraine, however, this area is rather fragmented, since due to the functioning of the institution lf parliamentary majority, the positions of the parliament and the government actually coincide. In addition, he mentioned that adoption of Bill No. 0900 (3207-1) on the local self-governance reform is dangerous, as it does not meet the need of the Ukrainian society at all.

Mr Victor Tymoshchuk, Head of the Centre for Political and Legal Reforms said that the lack of balance in the system of public authorities is the main problem generated by the constitutional reform, having stressed that adoption of Bill No. 0900 (3207-1) will not be able to solve this problem, since it will make high quality and equal provision of public services to the people impossible. Regional self-governance can be established only if there is a strong basic level of local self-governance; therefore the local self-governance reform shall begin with this step.
According to Mr Oleksiy Hraniy, there is a need for target amendments to the Constitution, and not the radical review of its provisions.  Having analysed the recent sociological study of public opinion, the speaker defined the main problems of the constitutional amendments, like their unclearness, the haste with which they have been passed to meet the political circumstances of the day. This evidences lack of convergence pf visions of the model of the system of public authorities between the governing elite and the people.

Mr Oleksandr Starynets, Chief of Staff of the Socialist Party stressed that there is no point in discussing the revision of the Constitution, since the constitutional reform resulted from the agreement between practically all political forces; therefore, analysing the prospects of further transformations, one should talk about the bill currently considered by the Verkhovna Rada, and  not look into some hypothetical scenarios.

Round Table: “New Format of Relations in the Parliament-President-Government Triangle”

The following key issues have been discussed:

• New Model of Relations within this Triangle: its Strong and Weak Aspects;
• Ways to Further Reform of the Public Authorities;
• Reform of the Executive Branch: from Constitutional Amendments to the Administrative Reform.

Round Table: “Constitutional Reform and Local Self-Governance”

The participants of the round table discussed the following issues:

• Bill No. 0900 (3207-1): Assessment of its Relevance to the Current Challenges;
• Ways to Improve the Administrative and Territorial System;
• Role of Local Executive Authorities under the Conditions of the Local Self-governance Reform.

Address

On the results of the Public Forum “Constitutional Reform: View of the Civil Society”, its participants issued the Address to the President, the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers, Political Parties, and NGOs.

In their address, the participants have presented their generalised vision of the consequences of the constitutional reform in Ukraine and further steps towards the reformation of the system of public authorities and local self-governance. The Forum participants emphasised that implementation of the Ukrainian Constitution is complicated not only by the struggle between the President, the Parliament, and the Government, but also by the fact that the potential of the current Constitution in relation to the reform of public authorities still remains unused. The Forum participants consider that further steps towards to the reform of public authorities shall envisage not only constitutional amendments, but also adoption of a number of legislative act for the development of the constitutional provisions.

You can find also:

AGENDA of the Public Forum “CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: VIEW OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY”
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS of the PUBLIC FORUM “CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: VIEW OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY”
ANALYTICS, made by the experts of the Agency for Legislative Initiatives for the Public Forum “CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: VIEW OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY”
ADDRESS of the Public Forum participants to the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Political Parties and Non-Governmental Organisations

Regional partners:

Centre for Legislative Initiatives (Donetsk)
Centre for Political Analysis and Election Consulting (Lutsk)
Centre for Regional Policy Studies (Sumy)
Association for Support and Development of Local Self-Governance (Luhansk)
Southern-Ukrainian Agency for Social Technologies (Zaporizhzhya)

Ukraine joined the Council of Europe on 9 November 1995. The ten years that followed have been marked by fruitful cooperation which resulted, among other, in the opening of the Ukrainian School of Political Studies.

It is the thirteenth School of this type established by the CE Directorate General of Political Affairs in the CEE countries. The Ukrainian partner of the project is the Agency for Legislative Initiatives.

This School is an independent non-party project aiming at formation, education and support of the new generation of managers and politicians, NGO leaders and heads of trade unions, journalists and businessmen able to define and implement Ukraine’s European idea.

As one of its priority steps, the School intends to organize a broad campaign for the selection of 35 candidates that will become entitled to participate in three School sessions in Ukraine and one in Strasbourg (France). The eligible candidates will include young people up to 35 years old that have already achieved a visible success in journalism, business, public service, as well as civil, political or trade union activities. Trainers and lecturers of the School will include the leading Ukrainian and foreign public and political figures. The School participants will not only receive knowledge, but they will also be able to develop the skills necessary for a successful political carrier, participation in the decision-making processes and solution of social problems.

The need to establish the School has been spurred by the last November and December events in Ukraine, following which, since February 2005, Ukraine has witnessed a real staff revolution that has become probably one of the most broad-scale replacements of staff at all levels of government after the independence. Observing this process, however, one can hardly fail to notice the substantial deficit of properly qualified leaders able to demonstrate new democratic thinking. This calls forth urgent efforts to be made to train a new young generation of politicians that would introduce modern European standards into the political life of Ukraine.

More information on the School will be disseminated at the presentation to be organized at the beginning of December 2005. It will also be published on the web-site: parlament.org.ua. 

The Ukrainian School of Political Studies is an independent and non-party project of the Agency for Legislative Initiatives and the Council of Europe (Directorate General of Political Affairs) carried out in partnership with the Institute for Political Education.

The implementation of democratic political and economic reforms in Ukraine, integration of our country into the European society, adaptation of the European standards to the conditions and traditions of the Ukrainian society, establishment of the political rights and liberties, freedom of expression and information, rule of law and protection of human rights – these are the objectives faced by the new generation of politicians, civil servants, businessmen, managers, and journalists.

The Ukrainian School of Political Studies aims to ensure the maximum support to the formation of such new generation of managers and politicians, NGO leaders and heads of trade unions, journalists and businessmen that are able to form and implement Ukraine’s European idea. Today, Ukraine really needs professionals educated on the basis of the European democratic values.

The Ukrainian School of Political Studies sees its objective in the formation and education of new Ukrainian leaders, as well provision of intellectual and information support to the Ukrainian leader network and its value orientation, development of such leaders’ civil self-consciousness and understanding of the functioning mechanisms and principles of the democratic system.

The Ukrainian School of Political Studies intends to organize and conduct seminars, conferences, summer schools, strategic games and training visits for the purpose of civil and political education of the national and regional politicians, civil activists, scholars, civil servants, businessmen and journalists.

The Ukrainian School of Political Studies will involve participants from all regions of Ukraine representing different political views, various nationalities and religious beliefs.

The Ukrainian School of Political Studies will be directed by the Director and managed by the Executive Secretariat. The supervisory and advisory functions will be fulfilled by the Supervisory Board formed of the prominent Ukrainian and foreign civil and public figures and business leaders.

The School was opened on November 09, 2005 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Ukraine’s accession to the Council of Europe. Upon the selection of the School participants, in 2006 three 3-day seminars will be organized in Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions for 35 selected students, as well as one training visit to Strasbourg (France) for them to learn how the European institutions operate.

Short-Term Strategy:

• Creation of the School regional branch in Eastern Ukraine;
• Formation of the School Alumni Association;
• Creation of the network of school information partners; and

Supplement of the curriculum with the additional forms and types of activities (round tables, summer schools, conferences etc).

Long-Term Strategy:

Formation of the School Library and establishment of the Advanced Political Party Courses (for the system-based training of political party staff).