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At the Open World Discussion Club that took place on June 5th in Kyiv and was initiated by Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation, Steven Pifer shared his impressions that "no one in Kyiv or Brussels has a plan B", in case if the Association Agreement is not signed in November of the current year during the Vilnius summit. According to Mr. Pifer, the plan B can be represented as a position of the European Union stating that "although the road is not completed yet, but the EU will be still happy to sign the Agreement provided that Ukraine shows the progress".

Mandatory personal financial openness of governmental officials plays an important role in the fight against corruption when there is an obligation to declare all of their assets, income, securities – said Chuck THOMPSON, Director of the International Municipal Lawyers Association (IMLA) during the Open World Discussion Club.

Supported by the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation, Lada Nakonechna, Ukrainian artist and R.E.P. group member has travelled to Latvia to participate in "Revisiting Footnotes" exhibition and symposium. As part of the event Lada Nakonechna presented her work “Earlier. Now. Further.” in the exhibition hall of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, and presented R.E.P. group activities to the symposium’s participants.

On June 5 at 6:30 p.m. the website www.openukraine.org launches webcast of the ‘Open World’ Discussion Club meeting with Steven PIFER, the U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ukraine (1998-2000). The event is initiated by the Arseniy Yatsenyuk ‘Open World’ Foundation.

On June 4 at 6:30 p.m. the website www.openukraine.org will launch webcast of the ‘Open World’ Discussion Club meeting with representatives of the International Municipal Lawyers Association – Chuck Thompson and Ben Griffith. The event is held at the initiative of the Arseniy Yatsenyuk ‘Open Ukraine’ Foundation.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk Foundation Open Ukraine initiates an informal meeting for youth as part of the Discussion Club “Open World”. On June 5, a Senior Fellow of Brookings Institution, Steven PIFER, will talk about what prospects are expected in Ukraine's foreign policy.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk Foundation Open Ukraine initiates an informal meeting for youth within the framework of the Discussion Club “Open World”. Representatives of the International Municipal Lawyers Association Chuck THOMPSON and Ben GRIFFITH will talk about the way corruption is fought in the U.S. on June 4, 2013.

On May 24 the meeting with Maksym KIDRUK, famous traveler and writer has taken place in ‘Chasopys’. The author of ‘BOT’, the first Ukrainian techno-thriller, told the audience why book commercialization is important, why there is no multimillion blockbusters so far in Ukraine similar to King’s, Bryan’s and Patterson’s and why it is important to search for new niches in contemporary Ukrainian literature.

The International Documentary Film Festival Visions du Réel was held From 19 to 26 April, 2013. With the support of Arseniy Yatsenyuk Foundation Victoria Leshchenko, program coordinator of the International Documentary Film Festival on Human Rights Docudays UA, made a trip to this top event in the field of cinema.

From 13 to 18 April 2013 in New York City took place another festival of Ukrainian and post-Soviet cinema KINOFEST NYC. With the support of Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation Ukrainian writer and screenwriter Kateryna Babkina represented Ukraine at the film shorts section at KINOFEST NYC, and personally presented the film Evil, which was filmed based on her script.