The first day of the 8th Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy has come to an end. Later at night today the Annual Meeting participants will have a chance to hear the world’s preeminent economist and publicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2008 Paul R. Krugman and his special speech entitled “The Future of Western Democracy and Market Economy”.
For the latest one hundred years, the Arab countries have experienced the range of crushing defeats in nation-building domain. Tarek Osman, a writer and analyst, author of “Egypt on the Brink”, expressed this idea during the discussion about the Arab revolutions at the 8th Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy.
During the Orange Revolution Ukrainians proved their belonging to the European civilization. This idea voiced out Leonid Kuchma, President of Ukraine (1994-2005), in the debates on the issue of the Northern Africa revolutions at the 8th Annual Meeting of Yalta European Strategy.
Mangold Klaus. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Mangold Klaus. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Aslund Anders. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Strauss-Kahn Dominique . © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Strauss-Kahn Dominique. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Leszek Balcerowicz. Aslund Anders, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations. Leszek Balcerowicz, Chairman (2001-2007), National Bank of Poland. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Klaus Mangold, East–West Committee of German Industry, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bank Rothschild , Strauss-Kahn Dominique. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Petro Poroshenko, Chairman of the Supervisory board of the National Bank of Ukraine. Strauss-Kahn Dominique. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES) 
Jean Pisani-Ferry, Director of Bruegel. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Strauss-Kahn Dominique, Managing Director of the IMF. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Raissa Bohatyreva, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. Hryhory Nemyria, Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Pierre Lellouche, National Assembly, France. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Еmbassador of the President of Poland. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Richard Haass, Strauss-Kahn Dominique, Aslund Anders, Mangold Klaus, Balcerowicz Leszek, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Petro Poroshenko. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES)
Aleksander Kwasniewski, Olena Franchuk, Victor Pinchuk. © 2008 Yalta European Strategy (YES) 
