2006

Dariusz Szwed

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Dariusz
Szwed

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Stanislav Shushkevich

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Stanislav
Shushkevich

Politician, physicist. Head of the Belarusian Parliament of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarus (1991–1994). On 8th December 1991, together with the Presidents of Russia (Boris Yeltsin) and Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk), signed the Declaration dissolving the Soviet Union. He supported free market reforms and played a key role in the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

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Rafał Serafin

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Rafał
Serafin

Graduated form the University of East Anglia in England, the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo in Canada. Since 1990 he has worked in Krakow; one of the founders and the first director of the Cracow Forum for Development – a partnership initiative launched in 1995 by business, university and local government leaders, and social organizations for the development of Krakow. Since 1996 he has been Head of the Polish Environmental Partnership Foundation board – an independent and self-governing foundation, which supports sustainable development at the local level.

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Mykola Ryabchuk

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Mykola
Ryabchuk

Mykola Ryabchuk (Mikolaj Riabczuk) is a senior research associate at the Ukrainian Centre for Cultural Studies in Kyiv and a co-founder and member of the editorial board of Krytyka monthly (www.krytyka.kiev.ua). He penned five books and many articles on civil society, state/nation building, nationalism, national identity, and post-communist transition in the post-Soviet countries, primarily in Ukraine.

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František Ružička

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František
Ružička

Currently, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic to Poland. Graduated from the Moscow Institute for International Relations and Charles University in Prague. In 1993-1996 First Secretary in the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Washington, USA. From 1996-1999 held posts in the Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Director in the Office of the State Secretary, Director of the Department of International Economic Cooperation, Deputy Director General, and Director of the First Territorial Department.

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