About EWPPP

The East-West Parliamentary Practice Project (EWPPP), headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan nongovernmental organization founded in 1990 as a joint initiative of the European Cultural Foundation (NL) and the Ford Foundation (US) with the aim of providing support for parliaments in the newly emerging democracies in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

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Moscow, USSR 26-28 April 1991  

Workshop for the former Soviet Union countries: Parliament and the Budget

Moscow, USSR 11-16 November 1991 
Bilateral USA – USSR conference: New Structures of Government

Moscow, 23-25 June 1992
Russian workshop: Separation of State Powers

St. Petersburg, 3-5 March 1994 
Russian workshop: Reconciliation Procedures in Parliament

St. Petersburg, 18-19 May 1995
Russian – CIS workshop: The Budget Process in a Federal System: Reconciliation of Central and Local Interests

Izhevsk, Republic of Udmurtia, 18-19 September 1995
Russian workshop: Parties and Parliament

St. Petersburg, 25-26 April 1996

Russian – CIS workshop: Legislative Oversight of the Executive Branch

Novgorod, 10-11 June 1996 
Russian – CIS workshop: Parliamentary Lobbies and the Role of Interest Groups

Novosibirsk, 9-10 June 1997
Russian workshop: Federalism and Regional Policy: Problems of Relations among Federal Bodies of Power, Governmental Bodies of the Subjects of the Federation, and Bodies of Local Self-Government

Astrakhan, 20-21 April 1998
Russian parliamentary workshop: Economic Development of Russian Regions

Kazan, 22-25 April 1999 
Russian parliamentary workshop: Federalism and the Establishment of Conditions for Regional Economic Investment

Moscow, 13-16 March 2002
First Preparatory visit to the Federation Council: Federalism and Representation in Russia

Moscow, 19-22 June 2002
Second Preparatory visit to the Federation Council: Federalism and Representation in Russia

Moscow, 17-19 October 2002
Interparliamentary workshop on the constitutional status of  Upper Chambers and their members Federalism and Representation in Russia: New Directions for the Federation Council

Moscow, 14-15 February 2003

Second International Inter-parliamentary Workshop “The Representative Functions of Upper Chambers of Parliaments”.

Saint Petersburg, 20-21 June 2003

Third International Inter-parliamentary Workshop “The Representative Functions of Upper Chambers of Parliaments: Regional Aspect

Moscow , 14-15 November 2003

4th and final International Inter-parliamentary Workshop “The Oversight of Legislation and Law-Implementing Practice as a Field of Activity of Upper Chambers of Parliament”

Moscow, 14-17 February 2004

Wrap-up meeting: Federalism and Representation in Russia: New Directions for the Federation Council

Moscow, 25-28 May 2005
Launching Meeting: Federalism and Regional Legislative Assemblies in the Russian Federation

Saint Petersburg, 17 February 2006 
Workshop II: The Organization and Activity of Public Authority in Capital Cities, Cities of Federal Status, and Administrative Centers of Regions

Samara, 29-30 June 2006 
Workshop III: Public-Private Cooperation in Guaranteeing Citizens Right to Housing

Novosibirsk, 8-9 December 2006 
Workshop IV: Reforming Self-Government in the Territorial Subjects of the Russian Federation

Yekaterinburg, 23-24 March 2007

Workshop 5: The Impact of Regional Electoral Law on the Activity of Legislative (Representative) Bodies of Russian Federation Subjects

Moscow, 30 November 2007

Final Workshop 6 “Lobbying and Representation of Interests in Legislative and Executive Bodies”