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"WORLD RUSSIAN FORUM 2008"
RUSSIA - USA
Towards Economic, Political and Military Alliance
May 19-20, 2008 Washington, DC
United States Congress
GENERAL SPONSOR
INFORMATIONAL SPONSORS
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Agenda
National Press Club "AFTERNOON NEWSMAKER" with Andranik Migranyan, President of the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation, first Russian Think Tank in America
Friday May 16, 2008. 3.00 P.M.
National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW
Day 1, Monday, May 19
Hart Senate Office Building , Room 902
8.30 - 9.00 AM : Registration
9.00 - 9.15 AM : Welcoming Remarks by His Excellency Yuri Ushakov , Russian Ambassador to Washington
9.15 - 11.00 AM : Russian Economy and U.S. Russia Economic Cooperation
- Laura Brank, Partner, Chadbourne & Parke
- Vladimir Golovnev, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
- Ruslan Grinberg, Director, Institute of Economics,Russian Academy of Sciences
- Trevor Gunn, Director, International Relations, Medtronic, Inc.
- Aleksander Lebedev, Chairman, National Reserve Corporation
- Aleksey Shishaev, Head of Economic Section, Russian Embassy
- Charles Taylor, Former Member of Congress
- Curt Weldon, Former Member of Congress
11.00 – 11.30 AM : Coffee Break
11.30 AM - 12.45 PM : World Security Issues: Iran Nuclear Program, Missile Defense, NATO Expansion
1.00 - 2.00 PM : Lunch. Speaker TBA
2.00 – 5.00 PM : U.S. – Russia Relations at Crossroads
- Thomas Graham, former director of the Russian desk at NSC, presently with Kissinger
- Andrew Kuchins, Director of Russian and Eurasian Programs, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Edward Lozansky, American University in Moscow
- Robert Legvold, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
- Andranik Migranyan, Head of U.S. Division, Institute for Democracy and Cooperation
- Sergei Rogov, Director, Institute of USA and Canada, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief, Russia Today TV
6.30 – 9.30 PM : Reception at the Russian Embassy hosted by His Excellency Yuri Ushakov, Russian Ambassador to Washington
During the Day: Exhibition "Women in Art. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art"
Day 2, Tuesday May 20
George Washington University, 651 Duques Hall, 2201 G Street, NW
10.00 - 12.00 AM "Everything you wanted to know about doing business in Russia "
- Maria Bourlatskaya, Lauder Institute at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
- Dmitri Dubograev, International Legal Counsels
- Natalia Lazareva, JSC Asset Management Company NEOFITOUS
- Richard Robin, George Washington University
- Alexei Sidorov, American University in Moscow and Law Firm "Sidorov, Khokhlov, Uskov LLC"
Russian Cultural Center, 1825 Phelps Place, NW
2.00 – 3.15 PM : U.S. - Russia Science, Education, and Cultural Cooperation
- Edward Burger, Eurasian Medical Education Program
- Greg Guroff, President, Foundation for International Arts and Education
- Norman Neureiter, Center for Science, Technology & Security Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Carl Waltz, U.S. Astronaut
- Valery Zaboristov, Institute of Bioenergy
3.30 – 5.00 PM : Russian Diaspora in U.S and its role in bolstering U.S. – Russian relations
- Gennady Baryshnikov, International Union of Russian Compatriots
- Greg Guroff, President, Foundation for International Arts and Education
- Yuri Mamchur, Discovery Institute
- Nikolai Mikhailov, Foundation "Russkiy Mir"
- Marina Soboleva, Congress of Russian Americans
- Anatoly Sorokin, Deputy Head, Department of International Relations of the Moscow Government
- Sergei Tsapenko, Cossaks of America and Canada
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