Ihor Bardyn, Canada Ukraine Parliamentary Program.
On July 16, 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR adopted the Declaration of Sovereignty, which declared that Parliament recognized the need to build the Ukrainian state based on the Rule of Law.
On August 24, 1991, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the Declaration of Independence, which the citizens of Ukraine endorsed in the referendum of December 1, 1991. Also in 1991 Canadians celebrated the Centennial of Ukrainian group immigration to Canada. To mark the Centennial, Canadian organizations planned programs and projects to celebrate this milestone in Canada’s history.
The Chair of Ukrainian Studies Foundation of Toronto marked the Centennial by establishing the CANADA-UKRAINE PARLIAMENTARY PROGRAM (CUPP), an internship program for Ukrainian and Canadian university students.
CUPP gives Ukrainian and Canadian students an opportunity to observe parliamentary democracy and gain experience from which generations of Canadian, American and West European students have benefited.
Since 1991, over 1,000 Ukrainian and Canadian students have participated in the CUPP Internship Program, and the CUPP Model Ukraine Conferences held at Wycliffe College of the University of Toronto, George Washington University in Washington D.C., USA, University of Ottawa, Oxford University in the U.K., Kyiv-Mohyla University in Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Trinity College of the University of Toronto and the Government Conference Centre in Ottawa.
The biographical sketches published in the NP-UN will introduce the 34 university students who will serve an internship in the offices of 34 Members of Parliament during the Fall Sitting of the Canadian Parliament in 2020.
Please support the CUPP Internship Program by sending a donation to CUPP (cheque payable to Chair of Ukrainian Studies Foundation), 620 Spadina Avenue, Toronto ON M5S 2H4 or call 416-234-9111 Ext. 241. Your donation is tax deductible.
Solomiya Paslavska
Solomiya Paslavska is a candidate for the CUPP 2020 internship program.
Solomiya earned an LLM in Business Law from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in 2017. During her studies, she participated in Willem C Vis Moot Court Competition in Vienna, served an internship with a Warsaw Law Firm and finished a one-year course on Polish and European Law at Jagiellonian University. Afterwards, she obtained Mater’s of Arts in European Interdisciplinary Studies from the Natolin College of Europe in Warsaw. She specializes in public-private cooperation, SME development and investments. She was selected to participate in European Investment Bank Summer School in 2019 in Luxemburg.
Solomiya has gained administrative and managerial experience through her professional, social and academic activities. She has been working as a business and contract lawyer, supporting local businesses in the Lviv region. Solomiya is founder of “Leopolis For Future Alumni Club”, member of Global Shapers Lviv Hub, the initiative of World Economic Forum in Lviv and former organizer of TEDxLNU.
Solomiya advocates for equity of education, decent work and economic growth in the long-term perspective. She devotes her free time for volunteer projects, supporting the renovation and restoration of cultural heritage of Ukraine.
Hanna Rutkovska
Hanna Rutkovska is one of 36 Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program Candidates for CUPP’s 30th Anniversary program, in 2020. 
She earned an MA degree at the University of Tartu, Estonia and was an Erasmus student at KU Leuven, Belgium. She was born in Berezhany, Ternopil region. Hanna is active in volunteering within the environment scope. She is the former 
intern of the NATO Representation to Ukraine and is currently working as an analyst at a Ukrainian energy company.
Her favorite author is George Orwell. Favourite composition is Beethoven Silence. Her favourite famous Ukrainian is Hryhorii Skovoroda, philosopher and poet.
Antonina Rybka
Antonina Rybka is a candidate for the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Program in 2020.
She completed her BA in Philology at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and was an Erasmus-student at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany, during which she taught English to students and was engaged with the NGO “Cactus”.
Antonina also taught English voluntarily at the Kyiv Centre for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Children #1. After completing her BA, Antonina worked at the National Museum “Holodomor Victims Memorial” where she was responsible for translations and meeting foreign delegations, such as the President of Slovenia Borut Pahor. In 2018, she was awarded a DAAD-scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service, and continued her university education in an MA program “National and Transnational Studies” at the University of Muenster.
Since 2017 she has been engaged in the Gender in Detail project run by the Gender Democracy Program of the Heinrich-Boell Foundation’s Office in Ukraine, initially voluntarily and later as an Assistant. Antonina is a participant of several summer schools, conferences and cultural exchange projects in Ukraine, Poland and Germany. Her interests encompass (trans)nationalism, sociolinguistics, gender studies, feminist research. She dedicates much of her free time to self-education in Humanities and social sciences, learning languages, in particular German, and travelling. Her favourite author is Milan Kundera, and favourite famous Ukrainian is Lesia Ukrainka.
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