Florida TaxWatch was honored to be working, during the months of June and July, 2001 with Dr. Rostylav Pavlenko, a Visiting Freedom House Fellow from the International Comparative Analysis Institute (ICAI), Kyiv, Ukraine. Dr. Pavlenko's fellowship is sponsored by Freedom House, founded as a bipartisan effort by Eleanor Roosevelt and Republican leaders as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to establishing liberty, freedom and democracy throughout the world. The Visiting Fellows program provides professional training for new leaders from Central and Eastern Europe's young democracies. The program gives them an opportunity to work side-by-side with select policy and research organizations in the United States and equips them with the expertise to develop the infrastructure upon which democratic societies can be built and prosper.

Dr. Pavlenko is co-founder of the ICAI and heads the Department of Social and Political Analysis, an independent think tank which focuses on taxation, budget, and government reform issues. He also serves an Assistant Professor at the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Political Science Department.

Freedom House assigned Dr. Pavlenko to Florida TaxWatch because the appointment affords him with a unique opportunity to work with a distinguished research institute with a mission similar to that of the ICAI. Florida TaxWatch agreed to host Dr. Pavlenko's visit to the United States to support the spirit and purpose of the Freedom House program and to foster greater understanding and cooperation between the two institutes

Dr. Pavlenko has published several articles and frequently appears on television and radio news broadcasts in his homeland. Florida TaxWatch is honored to have been chosen by Freedom House for this distinguished assignment, and we look forward to giving him the rich learning experience he seeks.

Florida TaxWatch is proud to present several of the briefings that Dr. Pavlenko did while serving as a Freedom House Visiting Fellow with Florida TaxWatch. They include:

Problems of Administrative Reform in Ukraine

Kiev City Budget: an Outline of Budget Items and Programs

Not all universities corruptThe Kyiv Post, May 2001

Scheme of Personal Income Taxation in Ukraine

NGO Watch and Lead for Post-Communist Democracies Applying TaxWatch Experience to Ukraine

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