On April 9-12, 2016 representatives of four leading research centers from Germany, the USA, Ukraine and Russia, namely the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the Institute for Global Transformations and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), held a meeting in Potsdam to make forecasts about the future of Ukraine in the ten-year term.
On April 9-12, 2016 representatives of four leading research centers from Germany, the USA, Ukraine and Russia, namely the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the Institute for Global Transformations and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), held a meeting in Potsdam to make forecasts about the future of Ukraine in the ten-year term.
The experts, who took part in this first meeting of the kind, tried to identify a set of internal and external factors that could shape the future development of Ukraine, leaving aside its territorial conflict as far as feasible. The participants were to surmise the role of Ukraine in Europe, the place of the country in the global financial system, and the state of its economy and energy sector in a ten years perspective.
Based on this forecasting, the experts are expected to construct four possible scenarios for Ukraine’s development and its place in the world.
RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and its Website Editor-in-Chief Daria Khaspekova represented the Council at the meeting.
