The diversity of Europe’s experience during COVID-19 set the agenda for discussions at the 2020 Europe Liberty Forum Online, as questions of authoritarian government, freedom of the press, and public health have created new context for action. More than 125 advocates of liberty signed on to Atlas Network’s Zoom platform to share...
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For decades, Ukrainian students have learned about economics from outdated Soviet textbooks that celebrated the worst of centralized planning. Ukraine is one of the poorest countries in Europe, and new textbooks are out of reach for most schools. Bendukidze Free Market Center (BFMC), a Kyiv-based Atlas Network partner, wanted to...
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Bendukidze Free Market Center (BFMC), an Atlas Network partner in Ukraine, recently produced Зима, що нас змінила: шість років після Майдану (The Winter That Changed Us: Six Years After Maidan), a new documentary about 2014’s Revolution of Dignity, which was sparked by the Maidan Massacre.
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For decades, Ukrainian students have learned about economics from outdated Soviet textbooks that celebrated the worst of collectivism and centralized planning. Ukraine is one of the poorest countries in Europe, and new textbooks are out of reach for most schools. But Bendukidze Free Market Center (BFMC), a Kyiv-based Atlas Netwo...
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More than 200 champions of liberty from 44 countries met in Athens, Greece for Europe Liberty Forum, Atlas Network’s annual convention of think tank professionals and allies who meet to discuss the specific challenges facing European organizations and to engage each other on solutions that will promote free-market opportunities...
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Nataliya Melnyk of Bendukidze Free Market Center has won the 2019 Think Tank Shark Tank—Europe competition for her pitch to create an educational course for middle school students. Generously sponsored by the Smith Family Foundation, the regional Think Tank Shark Tank competitions award $10,000 in seed funding to the winner.
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Atlas Network is excited to announce the finalists of this year’s Think Tank Shark Tank — Europe competition, which is sponsored by the Smith Family Foundation and will be held during Europe Liberty Forum from May 9-10 in Athens, Greece. Three think tank professionals will compete in a showcase of the region’s most exciting new...
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While the world at large is freer than it ever was, Ukraine remains entrenched in political and economic hardship. The revolution fades, but the mafia state lives on. The recent Economic Freedom Forum, hosted by Atlas Network partners Bendukidze Free Market Center and Fraser Institute in Kyiv, brought together think tanks and sc...
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Ukraine has a low ranking on the Fraser Institute’s “Economic Freedom of the World” index, placing 135th out of 159 measured economies in the world — even lower than its previous ranking of 128th. The Bendukidze Free Market Centre, an Atlas Network partner based in Kyiv, recently published a Ukrainian translation of “Economic Fr...
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Less than three years after the Euromaidan revolution and 25 years since it was part of the Soviet Union, Ukraine still has a legacy of Marxist-Leninist thought that runs deep. A strong movement there, however, is working to secure a future of freedom in Ukraine. Free Generation Forum 2016 — hosted by Bendukidze Free Market Cent...
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Ukraine faces a crossroads. It can remain mired in the stagnant economy that has resulted from years of authoritarian rule, or it can continue down the path of reform — following its tentative few steps in that direction with a movement to shore up Ukrainian property rights, strengthen the rule of law, lower government spending,...
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