WORLD RUSSIA FORUM

Agenda

Monday, April 27: Hart Senate Office Building , Room 902

8:00 - 9:00 AM : Registration

9:00 - 9:20 AM :  Welcoming Remarks by His Excellency Sergei Kislyak, Russian Ambassador to Washington

9.20 - 10.45 AM: Managing the World's Economic and Financial Crisis. Building a new Financial World Order.

Anatoly Aksakov – Russian State Duma, Association of Russian Regional Banks

Laura Brank - Chadbourne & Parke

Marshall Goldman – Harvard University

*Gerard Janco – Eurasia Center

Peter Loukianoff - Almaz Capital Partners

William Marsteller – Export–Import Bank of the United States

Aleksei Shishaev – Head of Economic Section, Russian Embassy

11.00 AM – 12.30 PM : U.S. and Russia : A Window of Opportunity.  U.S. - Russia - China Triangular. 

Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin - Institute of World Economics and International Relations

Robert McFarlane - National Security Advisor to President Reagan   

Thomas Pickering - Hills & Company, former Undersecretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to Moscow

Sergei Rogov – Institute of USA and Canada , Russian Academy of Sciences

*Matthew Rojansky – Partnership for a Secure America

12:30 - 1:00 PM : Congressional Lunch Break.

1:00 - 2:30 PM : Strategic vision for U.S.-Russia relations

*Greg Guroff – Foundation for International Arts and Education

Andrew Kuchins – Center for Strategic and International Studies

Robert Legvold – Columbia University

Wayne Merry – Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy

Andranik Migranyan – Institute of Democracy and Cooperation

Margarita Simonyan - Russia Today TV

2:30 - 3:15 PM : Keynote PRESENTATION by Under Secretary Political Affairs William Burns

3:30 - 5:30 PM : America and Russia : Challenges and Opportunities

Jim DeMint – U.S. Senator (R-SC)

William Lind – Free Congress Foundation

*Edward Lozansky – American University in Moscow

Igor Panarin – Russian Diplomatic Academy

Gleb Pavlovsky - Effective Policy Foundation

David Satter – John's Hopkins University

Sergei Tsekov – Supreme Council of Autonomous Republic of Crimea

7:00 - 9:30 PM : Reception at the Russian Embassy 2650 Wisconsin Avenue, NW 

 

 

Tuesday, April 28: George Washington University,   651 Duques Hall, 2201 G Street, NW 

10:00 AM - Noon : U.S.-Russia Business Roundtable: Doing Business in Russia at a Time of Economic Stress."

Dmitry Beskurnikov - Russian Chamber of Commerce in the U.S.

Dmitri Dubograev - International Legal Counsels

*Richard Robin - George Washington University

Bill Robinson - Attorney at Law

Pavel Tolstykh - Higher School of Economics

Maxim Voltchenko - Russian Speaking Professionals Network of Greater Pennsylvania

12.15 - 1.15 PM: Lunch at GWU

Transfer to Russian Cultural Center, 1815 Phelps Place

2:00 - 3:30 PM : American and Russian Agendas in the Former Soviet Space. U.S. - Russia cooperation in science and medicine.

Mike Averko - Independent Foreign Policy Analyst 

Evgeny Brun - Department of Health, City of Moscow

Adgur Kharasia - Parliament of Abkhazia

*Edward Lozansky - American University in Moscow

Yuri Mamchur - Discovery Institute

Armen Markarian – Rosnor Energo

Aleksey Mazus - Department of Health, City of Moscow

 3.45 - 5.30 PM: Role of the Russian Diaspora in America in Bolstering the Business and Cultural Relations between the two Nations.   

*Greg Guroff – Moderator, Foundation for International Arts and Education

Nikita Lobanov-Rostovsky - International Council of Russian Compatriots

Konstantin Khizder - Russian DC

Flora Maksumova - Academy of Peoples Diplomacy

George Sheremetiev - Congress of Russian Americans

Olga Zatsepina - Russian-American Culural Heritage Center

Alexander Zolotov - Association of Russian Youth Abroad "Zarya"

5:30 - 8:00 PM : Final Reception and Cultural Program at the Russian Cultural Center

* Panel Moderator

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