U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA GOES TO MOSCOW:
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE BALTIC-BLACK-CASPIAN REGION
Featuring David Kramer, Damon Wilson, Melana Zyla Vickers
Inaugural Webcast Presentation & Live Video Webcast bythe AHA! Network

U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC)
Wash, D.C., Mon, June 15, 2009

WASHINGTON, D.C. - David Kramer, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs and currently a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and Damon Wilson, Director of the International Security Program at the Atlantic Council of the United States and formerly with the National Security Council (NSC) will discuss the implications of U.S. President Barack Obama's upcoming trip to Moscow on the Baltic-Black-Caspian Region (including Ukraine), Tuesday, June 16th starting at 9:30 a.m. (Easter Time Zone) from Washington, D.C.

The moderator will be: Melana Zyla Vickers, a former member of the USA TODAY and Globe and Mail editorial boards.  The presentation will be held at the offices of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation / U.S.-Baltic Foundation / U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, 1701 K Street NW - Suite 903, Washington, D.C. Seating is limited. Please RSVP immediately to Tetyana Hungerbuhler at tetyanah@usukraine.org or by phone at (202) 223-2228

WATCH THE LIVE VIDEO BROADCAST AND SEND IN QUESTIONS
The live video broadcast from Washington, D.C., can be watched at http://www.usukraine.org/ahhanetwork_wilsonkramer061609.shtml. Questions for the presentation can be sent during the live presentation to tetyanah@usukraine.org.

NEW AHA! NETWORK   
The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF), The Moldova Foundation (TMF) and the U.S.-Baltic Foundation (USBF) have announced the creation of a new interactive, Internet webcasting program service, AHA! Network.  The AHA! Network will communicate information relating to the Baltic-Black-Caspian Region and its relevance to U.S. and European foreign policy, business, economic and other interests.  

The AHA! Network will bring together organizations and experts specializing in the area.  The U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF), The Moldova Foundation (TMF) and the U.S.-Baltic Foundation USBF) are helping to launch this webcasting program service.

BALTIC-BLACK-CASPIAN INITIATIVE
The new AHA! Network is also designed to support the Baltic-Black-Caspian Initiative. 

The Baltic-Black-Caspian Initiative brings together a number of U.S. and international non-profit organizations, including the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF), U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC), U.S.-Baltic Foundation (USBF), Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy, Moldova Foundation, Belarusan-American Association, and America-Georgia Business Council (AGBC), to build and support trans-border cooperation at the local grass roots level in the areas of Democratic Leadership Development, Crisis Management, Energy Security, Economic & Trade Development, and Conflict Prevention and Resolution for the nations in the region. 

For the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF), the Baltic-Black-Caspian Initiative and the AHA! Network aim is to elevate the importance of Ukraine to the region and to focus on solving those trans-national issues which have plagued Ukraine since independence.

Through the AHA! Network, USUF intends to increase the importance of the region and the trans-national issues hindering democratic development, energy independence and economic progress.  Through  AHA! Network webcasts, USUF aims to make complex information more understandable and thereby build a wider audience in support of the region and Ukraine.

You can go to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation's website, http://www.usukraine.org, to watch previously-produced videos on Russian energy, Moldova's Twitter Revolution and Belarus's Domestic and Foreign Policies.

For anyone interested in joining the AHA! Network or the Baltic-Black-Caspian Initiative, please contact Nadia K. McConnell, President, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (USUF), at info@usukraine.org. Questions and suggestions are also welcomed.

EVENT: Inaugural Webcast Presentation & Live Video Webcast bythe AHA! Network

WHEN: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 9:30 a.m. (Eastern Time Zone), Washington, D.C.

ATTEND: Please RSVP to Tetyana Hungerbuhler at tetyanah@usukraine.org or by phone at (202) 223-2228,  Offices of the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation / U.S.-Baltic Foundation / U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC), 1701 K Street NW - Suite 903, Washington, D.C. 20006

WATCH: Live video broadcast can be watched at http://www.usukraine.org/ahhanetwork_wilsonkramer061609.shtml.