On October 21, 2017 Lviv hosted a scientific conference “Political parties and Elections: Ukrainian and World Practices” (in commemoration of Yuriy Romanovich Shved), organized by the Department of political science at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

Deputy Director General, Director of Political and Legal programmes Yuriy Yakymenko attended the conference. During the event Y. Yakymenko presented the Razumkov Centre publication “Ukraine’s party system evolution: 1990–2017”, shared conclusions and assessments regarding the peculiarities of the development of multiparty system in Ukraine at various stages and some issues of research methodology.