PHOTO FOLLOW-UP: The Washington Group's 1996 Leadership Conference (10/27/96)

PHOTO FOLLOW-UP: The Washington Group's 1996 Leadership Conference

Photos by Natalie Sluzar

Discussing Ukraine's geostrategic position in the world are: (from left) Volodymyr Belashov, political secretary at the Ukrainian Embassy; Ilya Prizel, professor at the Johns Hopkins University Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies; Roman Popadiuk, America's first ambassador to Ukraine; and Sherman Garnett, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Ukrainian Supreme Court Judge Oleksandr Volkov explains the Ukrainian judicial system in a keynote address to the TWG Leadership Conference.
CIA Director John Deutch (left) making a point to Russian Ambassador Yuli Vorontsov (right) as Vasyl Holovenko, first secretary at the Ukrainian Embassy, and Maria Shcherbak, the wife of the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., look on.
The recipient of The Washington Group's "Friend of Ukraine" award, Odesa Philharmonic music director and principal conductor Hobart Earle, and Margarita Hewko, co-director of the Project on the Oral History of Independent Ukraine.
A view of some of the participants of The Washington Group's Leadership Conference. Close to 300 persons attended the annual three-day event.
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott arriving at the Ukrainian Embassy with Melanne Verveer, deputy chief of staff of the First Lady.