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Foreign Affairs committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It’s a great honour for me to present testimony on Ukraine to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Commons. It is also great for our two capitals to be linked electronically. Let me note also that at the beginning of the h
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you very much. It's a great question. Yes, I very strongly agree that we have to be active now and continuously between now and the May 25 election. One thing that's going to be very important to do is to support independent media and observers who can monitor the potentia
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee We had a Russian specialist who came to NED last week and gave a talk. She said that she had no idea, and she is from Russia and she is a specialist, so I don't want to pretend to know. I don't have a crystal ball. But what I said in my testimony is something that I deeply beli
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee I think one of the purposes for targeted sanctions against the people around Putin, the political operatives and the economic elite who are helping him implement his current agenda, should be to give such people pause and lead them to the conclusion that there is no future in fol
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee Yes. I mean, there—
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee That is surely one of the points that the NATO Secretary General called attention to. Clearly you could have something like what happened in Crimea happening in Transnistria. There are also other places, such as the city of Kherson, which is right north of Crimea. It's the transi
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee Yes, that's my understanding. Of course, they're preventing people from going back right now, so that will be very difficult. I think it's also worth noting that my information is that there are now about 100,000 Russian troops stationed along the border with Ukraine. This is
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee I'll let Michael reply. He's working on the ground.
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee I addressed that in my hearing, and we heard the statement from the Jewish community that even though they recognize some elements in Ukraine could be a problem, they are confident they're under the control of civil society, that civil society and the government exercise authorit
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the committee for inviting me to testify this morning. I applaud the fact that you're initiating a study of Canada's role in democratic development around the world. I've long believed that Canada has a critically important role to play
February 19th, 2019Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee I don't know that there has been an acceleration, but the trend is steady and very worrisome. I think we should start by at least recalling.... I referred earlier in my testimony to the third wave of democratization. That was the period that began with the fall of the Portuguese
February 19th, 2019Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee Canada is a parliamentary democracy, and I do think it has an important role to play in strengthening parliaments around the world. It also is a country that has played a lead role in a number of critical countries, like Iran, Ukraine and many others. I think Canada is primed to
February 19th, 2019Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee Regarding the question of offices, first of all, let me underline that the NED is a unique institution with its four institutes. We are not a programmatic agency. We're a grant-making agency with an oversight responsibility. We don't have offices anywhere in the world. We sometim
February 19th, 2019Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee I think it's critically important. There are different levels of independence. I should note that in his testimony, Mr. Smith noted that the board is appointed by the foreign secretary, and they approve the strategy and the budget. That's not the way it works. NED has a greater
February 19th, 2019Committee meeting
Carl Gershman
Foreign Affairs committee I'll quickly correct one thing. The NED Act did not establish NED. The NED was incorporated as a private organization in the District of Columbia. What the NED Act did was build that firewall and also authorize the funding for the NED, but it did not establish the NED because t
February 19th, 2019Committee meeting
Carl Gershman