A SCIENTIST OF THE INSTITUTE TOOK PART IN THE IPS REGIONAL CONFERENCE
On the 5th of September, Dr. Mykola Riabchuk, a Principal Research Fellow at the Department of Political Culture and Ideology, delivered a keynote lecture at the opening ceremony of regional IPS conference – the summit of the Central and East European alumni of the International Parliamentary Scholarship Program of the German Bundestag. The site for the conference in two borderland cities – Suceava and Chernivtsi (Stefan cel Mare University in Romania and Yuri Fedkovych University in Ukraine) – were chosen to facilitate the trip for Ukrainian participants and to enable the reciprocal visit of foreigners (upon their consent) to Ukraine.
In his lecture, entitled “Reshaping the Global Order in the 21st Century – Challenges for Democratic Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond” Dr. Riabchuk emphasized the exceptional importance of Ukraine’s currents resistance to Russian aggression and its victory (or defeat) for both the eventual global order (or, alternatively, complete disorder) and for the triumph (or collapse) of democratic principles in the region and elsewhere.
Mykola Ryabchuk speaks
On the same day, he took part in a panel discussion with the German MP from the Green Party Robin Wagener and Ukrainian Ambassador to Romania Ihor Prokopchuk on “Democracies in Central and Eastern Europe – the Results of Their Development since 1989-1991 and Stability Today”. In his brief intervention, Dr. Riabchuk stressed the importance of the liberal component in true democracy, neglect of which often results in ochlocracy and populism.