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AUDIO CLIPS
The following remarks of individual participants do not necessarily constitute
the views of companies or institutions that they may be representing.
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| Key policymaker sheds light on President Yuschenko's strategy for eliminating corruption
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| “This government understands that the key to fighting corruption is to shift the emphasis from crime fighting to systematic deregulation of business activity, placing legal controls over administrative discretion, and the removal of artificially created barriers to businesses. That's why we welcome and encourage foreign investors in Ukraine, who can impart an internationally accepted business ethic." Listen to more |
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Volodymyr Ihnaschenko
Deputy Economic Minister of Ukraine
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| Former Ambassador and founder of Ukraine’s Republican Party describes the political challenges ahead
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| “Today, the greatest challenge is to unite the East and West of Ukraine. We have three major political blocks - each [projected to win] 20% of the vote. They are: the Blok of President Yuschenko, the Blok of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and the Blok of the former adversary of President Yuschenko, Viktor Yanukovich. To govern the country, out of these three, two will have to form a solid alliance…” Listen to more |
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Konstyantyn Gryschenko
Former Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States
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| Multilateral finance institutions, foreign banks take stock of Ukraine’s progress over a longer timeline |
| “I am confident that exciting things are happening in Ukraine, and that they have been happening not just after and during the so-called ‘Orange Revolution. As someone who is in business and investment and finance, I can tell you that Ukraine started taking off somewhere at the end of 2000/beginning of 2001…”
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Kamen Zahariev
EBRD, Country Director, Ukraine
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| “If I were to look forward… I’m fairly optimistic when I look at the banking sector. We’re beginning to see the consolidation of the banking sector. What we would like to see a large movement on is the development of the small business sector. There are still obstacles, mainly administrative obstacles, to the development of small business.” Listen to more |
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Edward Nassim
IFC, Director, Central and Eastern Europe
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| “[Raiffeisen was] first in Ukraine in the 19th century following the Hapsburg Empire. We realized, with the opportunities we saw before the Orange Revolution and particularly afterward, that we wanted to be a major player. That's why we looked at buying a bank.” Listen to more |
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Jeffrey Millikan
Raiffeisen International, Regional Director, Russia & CIS
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| Harvard Business School professor applies newly-published model to Ukrainian economic/political trends |
| “The visions for Ukraine’s relationship with the West and with the CIS are not shared throughout the country. This is not the path that anyone in Kiev wanted to choose. Rather, it was a struggle between these two visions that, I think, nobody won.” Listen to more |
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Rawi Abdelal
Professor, Harvard Business School
Author, National Purpose in the World Economy
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| Executives offer market-based approach for improving Ukraine’s economic relations with Russia, West |
| “Turning over [Ukrainian-Russian] trade relations to an international body and having to work on an international basis with regard to trade disputes would help to eliminate the politicization of many of the trade disputes and take out the politics and make them straight trade issues.”
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Natalie Jaresko
Managing Partner, Horizon Capital
President & CEO, WNIS Enterprise Fund
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| “If you look at the economic relationship between Russia and Ukraine, you see room for a natural partnership: Russia is energy-rich; Ukraine is a natural transit land. What you need are additional transit routes through Ukraine and you need to encourage investment in it… by “denationalizing” ownership of oil and gas properties. If there is an economic opportunity for the transit of oil and gas through Ukraine, you let business drive it.” Listen to more
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Jeffrey Manners
CEO, Marsh Europe SA
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