Last weekend the Initiative Group of December 1 presented the Ukrainian Charter of Free Person and held the roundtable “Ukraine on the path of self-identification.”
In spite of the arguments of the intellectuals that in some European countries such charters have become the most prominent documents and served the groundwork for constitutions, the event has not drawn any expected response.
The information about the charter and the roundtable has been spread only by a few publications and social networks. Neither did they receive any reaction from the government, or the opposition.
The problems of legalization, argumentation, and above all, understanding of freedom were the main questions broached at the roundtable.
The initiative group defined 10 directions, in which every Ukrainian should work: to be free, to be Ukrainian, be an active citizen, to love and think, to be a manager, to be a leader, to be an open society, to be a successful state, and to be involved in the democratic community.
The participants of the roundtable noted that historical background is the main hindrance for the historical community on its way to freedom: the inability to use its past experience to make correct conclusions and lack of the desire to reveal and overcome the problems inherited after the collapse of the Soviet Union.







