PODIUMSDISKUSSION: European Union and crisis to the East - mit George Soros, Joschka Fischer, Rebecca Harms

Datum: Donnerstag, 20. März 2014, 18.00 bis 20.00 Uhr
Ort: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Schumannstraße 8, 10117 Berlin

Sprache: Englisch ohne Übersetzung
Livestream auf www.boell.de/stream

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Mit:
* George Soros, Gründer, Open Society Foundation
* Joschka Fischer, politischer Berater und Gründer von Joschka Fischer & Company, ehemaliger Außenminister
* Rebecca Harms MdEP, Die Grünen/EFA
* Gernot Erler MdB, Koordinator der Bundesregierung für Russland, Zentralasien und die Länder der östlichen Partnerschaft (angefragt)

Moderation: Ralf Fücks, Vorstand, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

Nach der Absetzung von Viktor Janukowitsch steht die Ukraine vor richtungsweisenden Entscheidungen. Neben den drängendsten politischen Fragen – der Bildung einer handlungsfähigen Übergangsregierung, der Erlangung neuer politischer Legitimität durch demokratische Wahlen und dem politischen Ausgleich zwischen dem Osten und dem Westen des Landes – wird die wirtschaftliche Wiederbelebung eine zentrale Herausforderung für jede neue Regierung sein. Aus Sicht von Experten benötigt das Land tiefgreifende strukturelle Reformen, die aber starken etablierten Interessen zuwider laufen könnten. Einmal mehr steht die Ukraine dabei auch zwischen den vermeintlichen Alternativen einer stärkeren Anbindung an Russland oder einer Annäherung an die EU.

Die Podiumsdiskussion „European Union and crisis to the East“ diskutiert die politische und wirtschaftliche Situation in der Ukraine und fragt nach den Implikationen für das Verhältnis der EU zu Russland: Welche Rolle werden die verschiedenen Interessengruppen bei der politischen Neuausrichtung des Landes spielen? Was bedeuten die jüngsten Entwicklungen für die wirtschaftliche Verflechtung zwischen Russland und der Ukraine? In welchem Maß und mit welchen Mitteln kann und sollte die EU die wirtschaftliche Modernisierung der Ukraine unterstützen? Welche politische Perspektive soll und kann die EU der Ukraine anbieten? Und schließlich: Wie lässt sich ein produktives Verhältnis zwischen der EU, der Ukraine und Russland beschreiben?

Information: Monika Steins, E-Mail steins@boell.de, T 030.28534-244

JOB: Technical Manager: Central Eurasia Project - EurasiaNet (soros.org)

Antwortadresse: humanresources@sorosny.org

Von: Cornelius Graubner
Datum: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:18:14 -0400

Maybe the job posting pasted below is of interest? Solid Russian language skills and a US work permit are necessary requirements.

http://www.soros.org/about/offices/newyork/techmgr_20090701

Best, Cornelius
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POSIITON AVAILABLE
Technical Manager
Central Eurasia Project - EurasiaNet
July 2009

The Open Society Institute works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. Open societies are characterized by the rule of law; respect for human rights, minorities, and a diversity of opinions; democratically elected governments; market economies in which business and government are separate; and a civil society that helps keep government power in check.
To achieve its mission, OSI seeks to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI builds alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. OSI places high priority on protecting and improving the lives of marginalized people and communities.
Investor and philanthropist George Soros in 1993 created OSI as a private operating and grant-making foundation to support his foundations in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Those foundations were established, starting in 1984, to help countries make the transition from communism. OSI has expanded the activities of the Soros foundations network to encompass the United States and more than 60 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Each national foundation relies on the expertise of boards composed of eminent citizens who determine individual agendas based on local priorities.
OSI's Central Eurasia Project (CEP) acts as a policy advocacy center, grant-making program, and OSI liaison for Soros foundations and programs in the South Caucasus, Central Asia, Mongolia, Turkey and Afghanistan. EurasiaNet is a daily news web site that operates under the CEP's auspices. EurasiaNet provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, Afghanistan and Turkey. The Technical Manager reports directly to web site's editor;

For more information visit http://www.eurasianet.org

The Technical Manager works full time for the CEP's website EurasiaNet, an online magazine that posts original stories concerning political, economic and social developments in the Caucasus and
Central Asia. The Technical Manager oversees all technical aspects of the site's operation, including both the English and Russian language sections, in particular the formatting of stories and photographs for uploading on to EurasiaNet's servers, and promoting stories via web-based social networking platforms. Other responsibilities include;

Responsibilities
* Oversees all technical aspects of the site's operation, including both the English and Russian language sections, in particular the formatting of stories and photographs for uploading on to EurasiaNet's servers;
* Promotes the distribution of stories via web-based social networking platforms.
* Organization of EurasiaNet's photo archive;
* Primary point of contact between EurasiaNet, and the website's contributing editor for photography.
* Responsible for adapting the site to accommodate multi-media packages, comprising text, images and audio.
* Maintains the website as an information resource, searching for new outlets to which EurasiaNet can link, while deleting outdated links,
* Communication with partner organizations to ensure that EurasiaNet material is properly distributed according to existing arrangements.
* The Technical Manager may, on occasion, work on developing and maintaining the website of partners projects within OSI.
* Coordinating the posting of audio/visual projects.
* Proofreading.
* Maintaining the website as an information resource via links to other websites.
* Handling administrative tasks, including generating consultancy agreements for EurasiaNet contributors and processing payments. (Approximately 10 hours per week).

Qualifications
* B.A. degree.
* Solid journalism skills;
* Familiar with the Drupal content management system, as well as have thorough knowledge of HTML, XML, Photoshop, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office;
* Familiarity with Coldfusion and at least some web design skills are a plus.
* Ability to manage Microsoft Excel spreadsheets is essential.
* Experience with various social networking platforms, including Facebook and Twitter.
* knowledge of the Russian-language a plus;
* Basic familiarity with political, economic and social developments in the Caucasus and Central Asia is a plus.
* Solid proof-reading skills

To Apply
Please email resume and cover letter with salary requirements before August 10, 2009 to: humanresources@sorosny.org
Include job code in subject line: TechMgrCEP

JOB: Program Officer, Central Eurasia Project. Open Society Institute New York (soros.org)

The Open Society Institute works to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. To achieve its mission, OSI seeks to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. OSI places a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of marginalized people and communities.


OSI's Central Eurasia Project (CEP) seeks a full-time Program Officer for Central Eurasia to be based in New York, starting immediately.


Working under the supervision of OSI's Director of the CEP and Middle East Initiatives, the Program Officer will have the following responsibilities:
* Monitor grants through extended site visits, review of narrative and financial reports and other communication with grantees;
* Focus in particular on human rights, labor migration and other areas as assigned;
* Work with applicants to develop and finalize grant proposals;
* Liaise with associated Foundations and non-governmental organizations in developing complementary strategies and approaches;
* Perform site visits of prospective and current grantees;
* Managing a grants program, including soliciting and evaluating grant proposals in the context of broader policy efforts, overseeing due diligence on grants implementation, and supervising 1-2 staff members.


Qualifications
* Master's Degree or higher
* Excellent organizational, communication, and analytical skills;
* Extensive regional knowledge;
* Strong verbal and writing skills in English;
* Fluency in Russian strongly desirable; knowledge of Central Asian or South Caucasus languages a plus;
* 10 years experience working in human rights, journalism and with civil society


Salary
Commensurate with experience; excellent benefits.


Start Date
Immediately


To Apply
Email resume, cover letter and salary requirements, before April 15, 2009,
to humanresources@sorosny.org


Include job code in subject line: PO/CEP



OR
Open Society Institute
Human Resources - Code PO/CEP
400 West 59th Street
New York, New York 10019
Application Deadline: April 15, 2009


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STATEMENT:Crisis Has Similarities With Soviet System Collapses. By George Soros

Investor and millionaire George Soros compared the current situationof the world financial-economic crisis to the demise of the SovietUnion, reports Reuters. He said that the world financial system has effectively disintegrated, adding that there is yet no prospect of anear-term resolution to the crisis.

Soros said at a Columbia University dinner the turbulence is actually more severe than during the Great Depression. He said the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September marked a turning point in the functioning of the market system. "We witnessed the collapse of thefinancial system,"' Soros said.

Source: Panorama.am

GEOPOLITICS: Soros on the geopolitics of cheap oil (halldor2.blogspot.com)

The financial broadsheet Vedomosti has published an article (in Russian) by the international financier and philanthropist George Soros in which he gives his assessment of the effects of the economic crisis on the global political landscape. In his analysis he suggests that the recent dramatic fall in the price of oil may not be entirely a bad thing, as it is likely to promote some realism in Teheran, and make Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's return to power in Iran's June 12 elections that much less probable. On the other hand, there are dangers elsewhere. In Russia, Soros continues, the loss of oil revenues is likely to propel the leadership towards more adventurism abroad and greater repression at home. Nationalism has replaced Communism as the official ideology, and the people who are currently in power in Kremlin have few scruples about using the enormous might of the state to further their own individual ends.

A Step At A Time

Reflections on the world post-9/11, by a British writer, translator and musician who engaged for many years in the debates of the Cold War, and who tends to see the world's present troubles as a continuation of the old common struggle with tyranny and oppression. The blog can also be accessed here