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“One shouldn’t look backward and meditate now”
Olena Viter, expert, Council for energy policy Ukraine has an excellent chance now; though it is a short-term one.
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Ukraine should quit running to extremes
Halyna Yavorska, public expert, National institute for international security  It isn’t good to talk blue streak hoping to get everything at one stroke, but it is equally bad to give up on everything.
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“Ukraine keeps in the background of Russia no more”
Vadym Karasiov, Director of the Institute of global strategies  Our country is the object of integration competition between the European Union and Russia no more; now Europe treats it as a potential EU member.
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“The EU membership risks haven’t been publicly discussed yet”
Volodymyr Shuvayev, Chief of the Center for social and political communications  Certainly, mythology of European way may exist, as it can become a unifying idea of society. On the other hand, it would be wrong to skip the discussion of severity many WTO and EU members ran into.
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Maybe, it would be better to have an eye on the US instead of EU?
Igor Kiriushin, Peoples’ Deputy of the 4th convocation  It is important to understand what we want from the superpower and what we can give in return. Certainly, to our own benefit.
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Ukraine with Russia: an evolving resource of Eurointegration
Olexandr Lytvynenko, the Deputy Director of the National institute for strategic studies  The EU is interested in our economic potential which can increase with the free trade zone with Russia.
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The GDP growth is not an end in itself
Ivan Poltavets, research fellow of the Institute for economic studies and political consultations.  One should not blame shortcomings of private property for the problems of wrong privatization.
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“Labor and information are main resources of a modern economy. The rest can be bought”
Valery Novytsky, Doctor of Economy, Prof., Head of the Department of external economic studies of the Institute of world economy and international relations of the NAS of Ukraine  In order to maximize its returns from the globalization, our country needs to have either an internal market of 200 to 300m of persons, or enter the like external market. Thence the importance of free trade zone with our neighbors.
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Strategic planning is a priority
Igor Lutsenko, economist, adviser to the International center of long-term studies, editor of “Business” section of the Correspondent Magazine  The new government faces the challenge of routine business; it may hamper future strategies which are its main purpose.
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It is necessary to control the bribery equivalent of new normative acts
Volodymyr Dubrovskiy, leading economist of the Center for socio-economic studies of the CASE Ukraine  The main challenge is in the changing rules of interaction of the state and business. If we stick to Yushenko’s promises—equal rules for all—usual controls down from the president and premiere simply will not work.
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Learning management
Tanteli Ratuvuheri, political scientist  The new government should meet the challenges of the financial system. The system should be briskly developed, specialization of financial institutions strengthened, capitalization improved, and stock market expanded.
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Economy is not the main trouble
Valery Vakariuk, Institute for promotion of reforms  I do not think that economy is the principal challenge. Man is the main problem.
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“Our economy should be upgraded”
Olexiy Plotnikov, Doctor of Economy, Prof.  Taking into account the structure of national economy and absence of radical reforms, the initial resource of development is exhausted. Therefore, it is possible to forecast the deceleration ahead.
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“It is possible to go too far with stabilization and cut the rates of growth”
Yaroslav Zhalilo, President of the Center for anticrisis studies  The decreasing growth rates can worsen social maintenance, which will have an effect on social and economic spheres.
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New public organizations will be instrumental in protection of civil rights
Olexandr Lytvynenko, expert of the Razumkov Ukrainian center for economic and political studies  One should not overestimate the role of foreign countries in Ukrainian developments; first of all it is a public choice. Even the very best technologies have their limitations.
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The rhetoric about foreign interference is the attribute of the Cold War
Igor Semyvolos, Head of the Center of the Near-East Studies Pro-Russian policy has neither basis, nor value and pragmatism; there are only Russian language and pro-Soviet nostalgia. It is a shaky foundation for such a concept.
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The looming Cold War
Victor Nebozhenko, president of the Trident Corporate Support Agency  Europe took fright at the looming Cold War, because the EU may be the biggest looser. Neither authoritarianism, nor democracy is at stake: Europe abhors the clash of two players.
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“Our elector looks like a fool”
Valery Vacariuk, chairman of the board of the Reforms Fund  If candidates realize their promises, they never win. They have but forget their pre-election statements; and nobody will be able to blame them. They will have to find a way out somehow.
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The pre-election programs were written only for the Central Election Committee
Igor Koliushko, Head of the Center for political and juridical reforms  The pre-election programs have very little to do with the future activity of politicians, if they win the elections.
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Civil nation must be the source of a new Ukrainian project
Olexandr Bohomolets, Center for the Near-Eastern studies Only now, as a result of recent events on Maidan, the elite begin to realize national discourse. What is more, many of them fail to grasp this rapid flow of changes.
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The cultural policy requires a dialog
Volodymyr Nikitin, Doctor of Cultural Studies, expert of the International Center for the Long-Term Studies  It is necessary to determine positions of different subjects of the cultural process. It is necessary to carry on a dialog between subjects representing these positions. It is quite clear for me, that today nobody discusses the principal questions of cultural policy.
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Ukraine needs to create a societal culture
Olexandr Hrytsenko, writer, culturologist If there is a need in some civil project, it must tend to create another societal culture, non-soviet, which would distinguish itself from other cultures.
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External threats for Ukraine are provoked from within this country
Hryhoriy Perepelytsya, Deputy of Director of the National institute for strategic studies  Today we see a conflict between regional elites, which is obviously used by our northern neighbor. It is much easier to overcome a country with susceptibilities, weaknesses; therefore, current transformations in Ukraine are used for strengthening of foreign influence on our state.
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It is necessary to fight for Kyiv, but not against Kyiv
Olexandr Lytvynenko, Deputy of Director of the National institute for strategic studies  There are some grounds for a hope, that the national elite are being formed, as well as mechanisms of its circulation. It is more so that we conduct elections and come out of a crisis through legal procedures, still insufficient though.
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There is no economic crisis now; and it is not likely in the short term
Ivan Poltavets, researcher, Institute for economic research and political consulting  There is a need to reform the industries, which have escaped improvement until now. It concerns the monopolized gas market, which evades market laws, coal industry, railroads, and motorways.
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Authorities managed to keep the situation in the constitutional field
Heorhiy Kriuchcov, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, group of the CPU, Chairman of the Committee for National Security and Defense  Authorities succeeded forestalling crisis tendencies, tackle a number of questions on the agenda in the Verkhovna Rada and prevent bloodshed. Certainly, there were mistakes, in particular the decision of the Supreme Court, several decisions of Verkhovna Rada, which I consider inappropriate, were not law competent. But all of it was intended to prevent bloodshed.
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Strongarm scenario was precluded thanks to the consciousness of society and authorities
Volodymyr Horbulin, Assistant to the President of Ukraine, Director of the Center for Euroatlantic Integration, Director of the Institute of National Security  Personally I couldn’t guarantee that everything is under control and the strongarm scenario is excluded
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More eurooptimism for the future president -
Olexandr Rudyk, Association of political analysts, Candidate of political sciences  Main presidential candidates prefer their own way of finding a key to their electors: meanwhile nobody of them suggested a kind of contract for the Ukrainian people laying down the development agenda for the nearest five years.
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Ukraine is the country of the problems put off till tomorrow
Andriy Fedorov, Deputy Director of the European Institute for Integration and Development  If the priority includes the sense of revenge for the insults, for the crack-down, and for the haggling… one couldn’t count on any political stabilization.
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There will be order in Ukraine, if presidents are responsible for their doings
Ihor Kahanets, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine of the new elite Perehid-IV  The five-million reduction of the population of Ukraine is the main "success" of the present regime. The future president is to stop this devilish scenario and maintain control of the Ukrainian people over their vital space.
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The economic system needs fine tuning
Igor Burakovsky, Director of the Institute of economic research and political consultations Unlike previous years, when it was necessary to ride out the crisis, now we face the problems of the fine tuning of the economic system in the first place. First and foremost it is related to the optimization of state administration
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“Do not harm” is the first commandment of the future president
Volodymyr Dubrovsky, the leading economist of the CASE Ukraine Our top administration is interested to suppress future. There are no forces motivated by the long-term prospects; therefore the entire country lives on the day in, day out principle postponing reforms for the hard times
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If a candidate promises everything, it means that he promises nothing
Olexandr Paskhaver, President of the Center of Economic Development Creating a climate of trust between the state and society, we need to take into account the signals which the chief administrators send to the people. Signals establish trust earlier, than reforms start; however they, these signals, must be consequent during the sufficient period of time.
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The consequences of electoral syndrome need to be overcome
Mykhailo Pohrebinsky, Director of the Kyiv center for political research and conflictology  The victory of one candidate must not be perceived as a victory of the West over the East, or vice versa. The president-to-be will have to take no time to forget about the electoral opposition and offer his hand to the loser.
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“The serious reforms can be carried out only during the first few months of the presidency"
Vira Nanivska, Director of the International center for the prospective studies  The reforms the new president fails to carry out within a few months will never be realized; therefore I would advise him to be precise about priorities.
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“With current structure of power the president will always fail carrying out his promises"
Vitaliy Kulyk, Director of the Center of the civil society problems research  The closed system of decision making has been formed after 13 years of independence. Therefore, never mind the personality of the future president; his milieu is in the making already aspiring for power and redistribution of property in economy and spheres of influence in politics.
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Choice of the decade
Victoriya Podhorna, Candidate of Philosophy, Executive Director of the Center of socio-political planning  “The political choice-2004 is the choice between two opposite strategies of the development of the country, at least for a decade.” This very decade will show if Ukraine succeeds maintaining the spirit of freedom on the border on Russia, which will contrast with a political situation of our northern neighbor.
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The standard of living in today's Ukraine should keep up with the upping economy
Olexiy Plotnikov, Doctor of Economy, Prof., Head of the International Currency-and-Financial-Relations  Department of the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the NAS of Ukraine
Every citizen of Ukraine should be covered by social maintenance.
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Choice of decade
Victoria Podhorna, Candidate of Philosophy, Executive Director of the Center of Social and Political Planning  “The political choice2004 is the choice between opposite strategies of development—at least for a decade.” This very decade will show, if Ukraine succeeds maintaining the spirit of freedom on the border on Russia, which will contrast with a political situation of our northern neighbor.
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Stability can exist even in a bog
Oleg Zarubinsky, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, First Vice-Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee for European Integration  The honest and open elections are to be the first step of the future president so that Ukrainians are sure he is really a majority choice. It should be followed by tackling real and not declarative economy problems.
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The epoch of new public relations and new possibilities should begin
Victor Musiyaka, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, Professor of Law  When the president occupies himself with the economy, the oligarchs behind him actually run the state. But if the president will be finally cut off from this sphere, the government will look after its business and many problems will disappear.
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We have a system of parallel worlds of power and population
Olexandr Sushko, Director of the Center of peace, conversion and foreign policy of Ukraine  The administration has learned to absolutely ignore the fact, that people do not trust it, and somehow this mistrust is not translated into some kind of dismissals. If we wish to see Ukraine among countries civilized, this situation needs to be changed.
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The new president will have to overcome the alienation of the society from the state
Kostiantyn Matviyenko, Corporation of Strategic Consulting Gardarika  The estrangement of the top administration from the society, their opposition has formed such moods that any forthcoming candidate will be considered a no-go personality. The businesslike people are survival-oriented even contrary to the actions of the public administrations.
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Changes are forthcoming, though not radical
Dmytro Vydrin, Director of the European institute for integration and development  Whoever really comes to power, no rich person will become poor and will not fail supporting generations of his/her descendants. Therefore millionaires, their children, wives and mistresses can rest assured.
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The president must learn to share power
Volodymyr Malynkovych, Political Scientist  The future president will encounter a difficulty understanding that doesn’t need to rescue us, or manipulate; he is only expected to include our society into the public and political life and share power with it.
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The new agenda needs the new language
Serhiy Datsiuk, the Gardarika corp.  Soon the presidential elections will loose their topicality, and I think that influence of the power on our life will drop which is one of the global tasks of future president.
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The hopes for the better are doomed. Let the fear of the worst come to nil!
Kost Bondarenko, political scientist  The new president will satisfy only the most populist expectations. During his first one hundred days in office he will have to butter up employees and pensioners adding some five hryvnias. He will have the political reform process to quiet its supporters. He will have to go abroad
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