Fighting disinformation and defending democracy

Debate ahead of the International #DemocracyDay

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15h30-16h00 Registration and coffee/tea
16h00-16h20 Opening remarks
Rostyslav Ogryzko, Minister-Counsellor, Embassy of Ukraine, Berlin
Ellen Ueberschär, President Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Michael Meyer-Resende, Democracy Reporting International Executive Director

16h20-18h00 Old lies, new approach –fighting fake news in Ukraine
Yevhen Fedchenko, Co-founder of Stopfake.org Ukraine and Head of Journalism School at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy
Dmytro Zolotukhin, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Information Policy of Ukraine
Other speakers to be confirmed

18h15-19h45 Civil society in Ukraine – its success story and future
Andrey Kurkov, Ukraine novelist and independent thinker
Susann Worschech, Research associate at the European University Viadrina
Oleh Rybachuk, Founder of NGO Centre UA, New Citizen Public Campaign and the Civil Movement “Chesno”
Representative of the Federal Foreign Office (to be confirmed)

Moderator: Karnitschnig, POLITICO Europe's chief correspondent

Language: English with simultaneous translation into German

Cocktail reception and screening of Tim White’s documentary “Nothing but Lies: Fighting Fake News” (25 min, English)

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Registration is mandatory: https://goo.gl/L7Kw7f

We hope you can join us!