Kennan Institute announces Kyiv Project

by Olenka Dobczanska

WASHINGTON - The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation has signed an agreement with the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to help open the Kennan Kyiv Project (KKP), which will be housed in the foundation's Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy in Ukraine.

The opening of the Kennan Kyiv Project office is the first cooperative step in a growing relationship between the institute and the foundation. The organizations hope to collaborate on research projects and conferences, leveraging each other's significant strengths.

The Kennan Institute, an independent research center, is one of several area studies programs at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Its mission is to foster and develop scholarship about Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia.

The break-up of the Soviet Union has resulted in greater scholarly and political attention on the non-Russian countries in the region and the Kennan Kyiv Project reflects this increased interest among scholars and politicians. The small representative office at the Pylyp Orlyk Institute in Kyiv will allow the Kennan Institute administrative staff to more effectively conduct recruitment and orientation activities for its scholarship programs in Ukraine. In addition, it will allow the institute to hold seminars, conferences and other events for its growing pool of Ukrainian alumni.

The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation has cooperated with the Kennan Institute in a number of events including a presentation by Yevhen Kushnariov, former chief of staff of President Leonid Kuchma's administration, who was a featured speaker in the Kennan Institute's noon discussion series, as well as at a foundation seminar.

For more information contact the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation at 733 15th Street NW, Suite 1026, Washington, DC 20005, telephone, (202) 347-4264; fax, (202) 347-4267; e-mail, usuf@usukraine.org

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, February 28, 1999, No. 9, Vol. LXVII

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