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Volodymyr SHPAK
![]() | Volodymyr Shpak, chairman of Ternopil regional organization He was born on November 16, 1981. From 1989 to 1990 he had been studying at the general education school No. 16 of Ternopil. Being a pupil of the 10th and 11th form he attended the specialized computer courses at the Ternopil Academy of Public Economy which he completed successfully and obtained a qualification PC Operator. In 1999 he entered the Ternopil Academy of Public Economy and obtained the major in Economic Cybernetics. In the course of study at the academy he worked in the Publishing House Economic Thought as a technical operator. In 2000 and 2001 he took an active part in actions Ukraine without Kuchma. He was one of the founders of Ternopil centre of the public organization For Truth. Together with members of the Youth Sobor he organized one of the most mass trips of students to Kyiv. In 1999 he was one of the founders of the Ternopil regional centre of the Pan-Ukrainian public organization Ukrainian Youth Sobor and in 2000 he became the chairman of the same. |
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helps the new generation in finding its place in an unstable present day, cooperates with public authorities in solving of youth problems, engages modern vanguard youth, and consolidates the high-skilled honest young elite which relate its future with powerful, democratic and rich Ukraine.

Leading experts on foreign policy and security - former Deputy Secretary of State of the USA and President of the Brookings Institution Strobe Talbott and former High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union (1999-2009) and Secretary General of NATO (1995-1999) Javier Solana – visited Kyiv on 31 March 2010. These leading international policy makers participated in public debates organized by the Yalta European Strategy (YES) and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
Anna Zakletska-Burak, the Vice-President of the Ukrainian Youth SOBOR in charge of the external relations, represented the organization on the annual “Young Leaders Meeting”, held on the 15th – 18th of October in Aachen, Germany.
On the 30th of March pupils of Kiev school №2 launched into the space almost 200 smiles. The school children drew their smiles on the multicolored balloons and set them free synchronously after the call “One, two, three, set your smile free!”. The action, organized by the Kiev City Organization of the Ukrainian Youth SOBOR got the name “The Express of Smiles”.
The UYS presidium member Dmytro Masliak was elected as an attorney of the Youth Sobor for external relations. The relevant resolution was passed by the organizations presidium. Therefore now Dmytro Masliak is obliged to establish and supervise relations with international organizations and funds and to reinforce interaction with them.
On Friday, February 13, in the Museum of the Ukrainian folk decorative art (in the territory of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra) there took place a theatricalized fashion show The Feast is Coming! The collection included 24 stylized clothes with bright ethnic elements and futuristic trends reminding the creative works of Maria Pryimachenko. All works were prepared by the students of M. Boychuk State Institute of Decorative Applied Arts and Design of Kyiv. «The clothes created by these students deserves being presented at the fashion weeks. It is remarkable for its expressed ethnic motives combine with modern femininity», says the production director of this show, scriptwriter Anna Zakletska.



