Candidates for the post of President of Ukraine Viktor Yanykovych and Yulia Tymoshenko are to present their vision for Ukraine’s future at the 6th Davos Ukrainian Lunch

On Friday, January 29, 2010, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and international investment advisory group EastOne will hold the 6th Ukrainian Lunch in Davos (Switzerland), entitled “Quo Vadis, Ukraine?”

This year the 6th Ukrainian Lunch is to be held during an active phase of the Ukrainian presidential campaign – between the first and the second rounds of the election. The lunch will feature speeches delivered by the two highest polling presidential candidates now contesting the second round ballot, Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko.

One week before the second round of the election, the participants of the World Economic Forum will have a unique opportunity engage in direct dialogue with the candidates about their vision for the future of Ukraine, and key priorities in foreign and home policy.

The discussions between the lunch participants and presidential candidates will be held in a form of a live Ukraine-Davos TV link. Chrystia Freeland, United States Managing Editor at the Financial Times will moderate the debates.

Following the TV link, Sergey Tigipko, the third-place candidate in Ukraine's first round of presidential elections, will address the audience.

The fourth-place candidate in the first round of the presidential election and the leader of the “Front of Changes” political party Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden Carl Bildt and President of Poland (1995 – 2005) Aleksander Kwasniewski will also participate in the discussions.

The Davos Ukrainian Lunch is the most preeminent international gathering dedicated to Ukraine, which is held annually in Davos during the World Economic Forum. The Ukrainian Lunch discussions are convened to help form the worldwide business and political elites’ opinion on the key tendencies in the development of modern Ukraine.

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and international investment advisory group EastOne have been hosting the Davos Ukrainian Lunch since 2005. This year’s event expects to welcome over 300 people, including business leaders, politicians, public figures and journalists.

General partners of the 6th Davos Ukrainian Lunch:
Alfa-Bank Ukraine
Horizon Capital

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is an independent private international charity based in Ukraine. The Foundation was established in 2006 by businessman and public figure Victor Pinchuk. Its goal is to empower future generations to become the change makers of tomorrow. To achieve this, projects are developed and partnerships are built in Ukraine and worldwide. The Foundation invests in three main directions:

• Investing in people, to boost human capital;
• Investing in the society, to promote social responsibility;
• Investing in the world, to foster a more integrated world.

The largest projects of the Foundation include the programme for creation of “Cradles of Hope” neonatal centres, the nation-wide programme for support to young talented people Zavtra.UA, the PinchukArtCentre centre for contemporary art, the international network YES (Yalta European Strategy) to support Ukraine’s aspirations for European integration.

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation is a member of the European Fund Centre and Ukrainian Grant makers Forum and a partner of the Yalta European Strategy (YES). The Foundation cooperates with Clinton's Global Initiative and other non-governmental organisations.

EastOne

EastOne is an international investment advisory group that provides strategic and investment management services to a diversified portfolio of assets across multiple geographical and industrial sectors.

The group was established in 2007 by Victor Pinchuk. EastOne provides a broad range of services to assets under its mandate: portfolio strategy development and implementation, sector expertise, long-term business planning, support for M&A and capital market transactions, risk and performance management. In addition, the Group advises on corporate social responsibility, broader social innovations and not-for-profit activities.

EastOne provides services to a portfolio of over twenty companies and large scale projects, among them the Interpipe Pipe and Wheel Company, Ukrainian media investments (TV Channels: STB, Novy and ICTV; Fakty i Komentarii newspaper, Ekonomika publishing house (InvestGazeta, Delo, and other).

EastOne’s Chief Executive Officer is Mr. Gennady Gazin.

EastOne is headquartered in London, with its offices in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.

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