Year: 2018

The agenda of the Forum was to inform the international community about the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine and to join efforts to condemn the Holodomor as an act of genocide. Apart from the Ukrainian leadership, the Presidents of Latvia and Slovakia, Raimonds Vejonis and Andrej Kiska, Prime Minister of Moldova Pavel Filip, Vice-President of the European Parliament Zdzislaw Krasnodebski and Estonian Foreign Minister Sven Mikser took part in the Forum. Representatives of the Parliaments of Slovenia, Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, government officials and parliamentarians from the United States, the European Union and Macedonia also attended the event.

The commemoration of the victims of the Holodomor with the emphasis on the Soviet regime’s (which is the successor to modern Russian power) being responsible for it, is an important component of the formation of the national identity of Ukrainians.

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The forum was intended to work out ways to reorient the state policy to ensure a decent standard of living for the population. This is already the fourth such event within the framework of the “New Course of Ukraine” initiative. The previous forums discussed amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine, issues of state security and defense, as well as economic policy.

In this way, Yulia Tymoshenko is trying to intercept from Petro Poroshenko the initiative of forming the agenda in Ukraine.

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The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the draft law on the state budget for 2019. The budget provides for only 3 % of GDP growth. It contains a maximum permissible deficit of 2.3 % of GDP and inflation of 7.4 %.

The budget is not aimed at an economic breakthrough, it just maintains the status quo in the Ukrainian economy.

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The nationalist political forces — Svoboda, the Right Sector, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists and the “C14” — signed a joint statement on the support of Ruslan Koshulynskyi, a representative of “Svoboda”, as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine in the 2019 elections. At the same time, the candidacy of R. Koshulynskyi was not supported by the “National Corps”, whose leader Andriy Biletskyi himself plans to stand for election.

Despite the strong electoral support, nationalist forces create conditions for inner competition, thus giving up the struggle for power, instead of becoming one of the key political players, especially in case of destabilization of the internal political situation in Ukraine.

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The presidential election campaign will begin on the 31^st of December 2018

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