Inviting you to the online round table "The international body for the management of sanctioned assets of the Russian Federation: prospects for creation and functioning".

Date and time: June 06, 4:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Kyiv time.

Format: online (Zoom).

Organized by: ANTS – National Interests Advocacy Network, Ukrainian Bar Association.

Working languages: Ukrainian and English. Speeches of foreign experts will be provided with simultaneous translation.

Topics for discussion:

• What challenges do countries and international organizations face when managing sanctioned Russian assets?
• Management of frozen Russian assets at the international level: is there a need for a separate institutional mechanism?
• What kind of mandate should such a special international body hold, and what powers should it have to effectively manage sanctions against Russian assets?
• Compensation fund: Ukrainian government suggestions and their feasibility;
• EU agency for management of Russian assets: concept and proposals;
• The purpose of asset management: to reimburse Ukraine directly or to use its profit to compensate Ukraine?

Participants: 

Yaroslav Sydorovych, Senior Expert of the project "Russian Assets As the Source to Restore the Ukrainian Economy", ANTS – National Interests Advocacy Network

Sofia Kosarevych, analyst at the Dnistrianskyi Centre

Serhiy Verlanov, Attorney-at-Law, Ph.D, Head of the State Tax Service of Ukraine (2019-2020)

Aleksandra Mężykowska, Associate Professor (dr. habil.), Department of Constitutional Law and European Research, Institute of Legal Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences

Markiyan Bem, Ph.D., Attorney-at-Law, Partner at Nazar Kulchytskyy and Partners

Ivan Horodyskyy, Ph.D., Attorney-at-Law, Board Member of the Ukrainian Bar Association

Moderator:

Lidia Lisovska, Doctor of Economics, Professor, project expert "Russian Assets As the Source to Restore the Ukrainian Economy" at ANTS – National Interests Advocacy Network

The event is held within the framework of the ANTS project "Russian assets as a source of recovery of the Ukrainian economy", which is implemented in cooperation with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) with the financial support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

Participation in the event is free. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

For additional questions, please, contact: +38 (063) 792-30-99 (calls via Viber, WhatsApp) or e-mail: conference@uba.ua. Contact person - Tetiana Osaulenko.