13 September 2006 18:17

The Ukraine 3000 Fund to Cooperate with the Institute of National Memory

Head of the Yesterday Area with the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Fund Oleksiy Kopytko met with Director of the Institute of National Memory Ihor Rafayilovsky to discuss the possible cooperation between these two institutions.

Mr. Kopytko informed Mr. Yukhnovsky on the Ukraine 3000 Fund’s programs and projects in the field of protecting cultural heritage, museum business, and popularizing Ukrainian history and culture, placing high emphasis on the Lessons in History: the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933

Mr. Yukhnovsky told about the structure of the recently created Institute, noting that it’s work will develop within three major areas:

Memory – renewing and preserving the national memory, impartial and fair history of the Ukrainian people and state building, primarily, all stages of the struggle for reestablishing Ukraine’s independence in the twentieth century; appraising the manmade famines and political repression, other crimes against the Ukrainian nation, and repulsing the totalitarian regimes;

Famed Names – reliving the memory on the Ukrainians’ great creative potential and the names of renowned Ukrainians glorifying their nation; popularizing Ukraine’s creative heritage;

Future – concentrates on forming strategies for Ukraine’s future development, aimed at harmonious development of the people and the economy in the globalization period; searching for and selecting the state’s future way, in which the state policy would concentrate on creating the middle class as a self-sufficient basic component of the Ukrainian society.

The parts agreed to consolidate their effort in the projects envisaging preservation of the historical and cultural legacy, research and popularization of the complicated periods in Ukraine’s past, in part, in recognizing the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 as genocide against the Ukrainian nation.