WORLD RUSSIAN FORUM

American University in Moscow

Russian High-Tech Development Fund

Agency News ROSBALT

Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

RosBusinessConsulting

Citibank

MidAtlantic - Russia Business Council

Free Congress Foundation
Culture Development Fund "America-Russia"
Russian-American Consulting Group
New Times

Russia House

 

American University In Moscow

and

Media Group Kontinent USA

in cooperation with
Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
RosBusinessConsulting
Citibank
Russian Academy of Sciences
Congress of Russian Americans
MidAtlantic - Russia Business Council
Free Congress Foundation
Global Conference Associates, LTD
Russian-American Consulting Group
New Times
Russia House
Eurasian Business Coalition
Center For Defense Information
and many other organizations

are pleased to present

"WORLD RUSSIAN FORUM 2005"
RUSSIA - USA
Towards Economic, Political and Military Alliance
May 3-4, 2005 Washington, DC
United States Congress

PLEASE SEE THE LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

FORUM AGENDA


May 3, 2005

5.30 PM Traditional Tree Planting Ceremony at the "Alley of Russian Poets and Composers" at the "Russian Plaza", 3600 Calvert Street, NW, corner at Wisconsin

6.30 PM Opening Reception at the Russian Embassy, 2650 Wisconsin Avenue, NW

May 4, 2005

9.00 AM - 9.15 AM Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902

Opening Remarks by His Excellency Ambassador Yuri Ushakov

9.15 - 10.45 AM: U.S, - Russia Energy Dialogue

Gen. Vladimir Danilov - Advisor to the Government of the Russian Federation
.Presentation

Vladimir Milov - President, Institute of Energy Policy
.Presentation

Yakov Smotritsky - Professor, New York University
Ralph Hall - U.S. Congressman (R-TX)

11 AM - 12.30 PM

U.S.- Russia cooperation in business, science, education and medicine

Trevor Gunn - Director, International Relations & Project Management, Medtronic

Konstantin Kabikov - Vice-President, U.S. - Russia Business Club
.Presentation

Victoria Peterson - Director of Corporate & Special Programs at the University of Maryland University College

Thomas R. Pickering - Senior Vice President, The Boeing Company

Vlad Sobell - Senior Economist, Daiwa Institute of Research, London
.Presentation
Boris Vinogradsky - President, Russian American Medical Association
.Presentation
Sarah Carey - Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

12.30 - 2.00 PM Lunch. Keynote address by Congressman Curt Weldon

2.00 - 5.00 PM

Round Table discussion on U.S. - Russia cooperation in the Nuclear Nonproliferation, War on Terror, Middle East, Iran Nuclear Program, and on the most important issues facing Russia today: Free Media, Rule of Law, Civil Society, Yukos Affair, Chechnya.

Roscoe Bartlett - U.S. Congressman (R-MD)
Chris Cannon - U.S. Congressman (R-UT 3rd)
Ariel Cohen - Heritage Foundation
Louie Gohmert - U.S. Congressman (R-TX 1st)
Alexander Konovalov - President, Institute for Strategic Assessment
Edward Lozansky - President, American University in Moscow
Andranik Migranyan - Moscow State University for International Relations
Arkady Murashev - President, Center for Liberal Conservative Policy
Igor Panarin -Professor, Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Andrei Piontkovsky - President, Center for Strategic Analysis
.Presentation
Alexander Shumilin - Director, Center for Mideast Policy
Mark Souder - U.S. Congressman (R-IN 3rd)
Ira Straus - U.S. coordinator of the Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO
Todd Tiahrt - U.S. Congressman (R-KS)
Anatoly Utkin - Professor, Institute of the United States and Canada, RAS
Eugene Vertlieb - Professor, George C. Marshall Center
Celeste Wallander - Director of Russian Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Paul Weyrich - Chairman and CEO, Free Congress Foundation
Nikolai Zlobin - Director of Russian and Asian Programs, Center for Defense Information

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