Schedule of press briefings in Ukraine crisis media center on Tuesday, March 18, 2014

12:00 Yuriy Lutsenko, Ukrainian politician, public figure, leader of Third Ukrainian Republic initiative

14:00 Activists of Automaidan: Kateryna Butko and Oleksandra Ryazantseva about abduction and the situation in the Crimea, the father of Oleksandra Yevhen Ryazantsev about troops in the Crimea

15:00 Yevhen Nyshchuk, Minister of Culture of Ukraine

16:00 Round Table “Decentralization as a way out of the crisis. Myerson & Milovanov initiative”. To be discussed:

  • Systemic crisis in Ukraine. Myerson & Milovanov initiative. Presentation.
  • Discussion of initiative and mechanisms to implement.
  • Regional decentralization and local government reform. Search for ways out of the crisis.

Participants of the Round Table:

Andriy Pavelko – MP of Ukraine;

Volodymyr Polochaninov – MP of Ukraine;

Gennadiy Zubko – MP of Ukraine;

Volodymyr Lupatsiy – Director of the National Institute for strategic studies “Sophia”;

Olexander Solontay – NGO “Power of people”, expert of the Institute of political education

Anatoliy Tkachuk – Director of the Civil Society Institute.

Participants via skype:

Tymofiy Mylovanov – Professor at University of Pittsburgh;

Roger Myerson – American economist, winner of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007 “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”.

Kate Darden – Professor at American University (Washington, USA)

Moderator: Victoria Podgorna, Director of the Center for Socio-Political Design

Myerson & Milovanov initiative: http://decentralizationinukraine.info/