The Open Dialogue Foundation was established in Poland, in 2009, on the initiative of Lyudmyla Kozlovska (who currently serves as President of the Foundation). The statutory objectives of the Foundation include protection of human rights, democracy and rule of law in the post-Soviet area and former Eastern bloc states. Particular attention of the Foundation is focused on the former Soviet Union's largest countries: Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine, as well as EU states where European values are being threatened. The Foundation pursues its goals through the organisation of observation missions, including election observation and monitoring of the human rights situation in the post-Soviet area. Based on these activities, the Foundation creates its reports and distributes them among the institutions of the EU, the OSCE and other international organisations, foreign ministries and parliaments of EU countries, analytical centres and media. In addition to observational and analytical activities, the Foundation is actively engaged in cooperation with members of parliaments involved in foreign affairs, human rights and relationships with the post-Soviet countries, in order to support the process of democratisation and liberalisation of their internal policies. Significant areas of the Foundation's activities also include support programmes for political prisoners and refugees. The Foundation has its permanent offices in Warsaw, Kyiv and Brussels.
