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The Baltic Forum's 13th International Conference
The EU And Russia In 2008: In Search of New Approaches
23- 24 May, 2008
Baltic Beach Hotel, Jūrmala
Programme
Friday, 23 May
10:00 - 10:15
Opening of the Conference. Introductory Remarks
Guntis ULMANIS - President on Latvia (1993 - 1999)
Kaspars GERHARDS - Minister of Economics, Latvia
Alexander VESHNYAKOV - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Latvia
Dmitri SIMES - President of The Nixon center, Member of the Board of the Baltic Forum, USA
10:15 - 11:00
Key-note speaches
Moderators: Justas Vincas PALECKIS and Abram KLECKIN
Igor YURGENS - Chairman of the Board, Institute of Contemporary Development, Russia; Member of the Board of the Baltic Forum, Russia
Jan Marinus WIERSMA - Vice-Chairman of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, Brussels
Rolf EKEUS - Chairman of the Governing Board, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden
11:00 - 12:30
SESSION ONE: The EU-Russia Relations between Political Principles and Economic Realities
Juris SAVICKIS, president, Intera - Latvija
Michael WEBB, Deputy DG External Relations, The European Commission
Andrey KLIMOV, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Committee for Foreign Affairs, Russian State Duma
Fraser CAMERON, Director of the EU-Russia Centre, Brussels
Žaneta JAUNZEME, Chairperson of the Board, Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Victor MAKAROV, Research Director at the The Baltic Forum, Latvia
12:30 - 13:00
Coffee break
13:00 - 14:30
SESSION ONE continued: The EU-Russia Relations Between Political Principles and Economic Realities
Moderators: Fraser CAMERON and Victor MAKAROV
Jarosław BRATKIEWICZ, Director of the Eastern Policy Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
Justas Vincas PALECKIS, Member of the Eiropean Parliament, Lithuania
Andris SPRŪDS, Researcher at the Latvian Foreign Policy Institute
Michael EMERSON - Senior Research Fellow, The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels
Alexander SUKHAREV - Roszarubezcentr, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia
14:30 - 15:30
Lunch
15:30 - 17:00
SESSION ONE continued: The EU-Russia Relations Between Political Principles and Economic Realities
Moderators: Michael WEBB and Vladimir AVERCEV
Irina KHAKAMADA, Chairperson of creative center Nash Vybor, Russia
Marko MIHKELSON, Member of the Estonian Parliament
Sergey CHERNYSHEV, Director, External Economical Relations Department, Ministry of Economical Development and Trade, Russia
Urban AHLIN, Member of the Swedish Parliament
Deniz ALTINBAŞ, European Expert, Centre for Eurasian Strategic Studies (CESS), Turkey
Mindaugas BUTKUS, Director, Policy Planning Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania
17:00 - 17:30
Coffee break
17:30 - 19:30
SESSION TWO: The Energy Dimension in the EU-Russia Relations
Moderators: Igor JURGENS and Andris GŪTMANIS
Alan RILEY, Professor of Law, City Law School, City University, London; The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels
Vladimir FEIGIN - Director of the Institute for Energy and Finance, Russia
Pavel EROCHKINE, Centre for Global Studies, UK
Andres MÄE, Researcher, Foreign Policy Institute, Estonia
Saturday, 24 May
10:00 - 11:00
Introductory remarks
Ainārs SLESERS - Minister of Transport, Latvia
PANEL DISCUSSION: Russia and the West in the Context of Global Security
Moderator: Nils MUIŽNIEKS
Dimitri SIMES, President of the The Nixon Center, USA
Rolf EKÉUS, Chairman of the Governing Board, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden
Sergey OZNOBISCHEV, Director of the Institute of Strategic Studies and Analysis, Russia
Ortwin HENNING, Vice President, Conflict Prevention Program, East-West Institute, Germany
11:30 - 12:00
Coffee break
12:00 - 14:00
PANEL DISCUSSION: The Economic Dimension of the EU-Russia Relations
Moderators: Aleksandr DINKIN and Viktor SIPERKOVSKY
Ruslan GRINBERG, Director of the Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Andris MALDUPS, Director, Department of Transit, Ministry of Transport, Latvia
Juliya ZVORYKINA, Director of the Department of Economics and Investment, Ministry of Transport, Russia
Igor KABASHKIN, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, President, Transport and Telecommunications Insitute, Latvia
Viktor SIPERKOVSKY, Director, Centre of Applied Researches
Maris BOZOVICS, Director, Development Agency of the Latgale region, Latvia
Slava HOD'KO, General director of Agency of North-Western Development and Investment Promotion, Russia
Aleksandr DYNKIN, academician, Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir ZVONAREV, President, Latvian Transport Union
Mikhail STADNICHUK, Chairman of the Board, Russian Insurance Centre
12:00 - 14:00
PANEL DISCUSSION: Central and Eastern Europe and Russia
Moderator: Sergey OZNOBISCHEV
David KRÁL, Director of the Institute for European polisy Europeum, Czech Republic
Marina LEBEDEVA, Director, World Political Processes Department, Moscow State Institute of International Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia
Dmitriy VYDRIN, Institute of the European Integration, Ukraine
Grzegorz GROMADZKI, Researcher at the Stefan Batory Foundation, Poland
Vitaliy DYMARSKIY, Vice-President, Public Relations Development Company, Russia
Mikhail HURS, Director of Centre of Sociological and Marketing Research, International Humanitarian - Economical centre, Belarus
Pēteris VINĶELIS, consultant
14:00 - 15:00
Lunch
15:00 - 16:30
SESSION THREE: Russian Politics, Society and Economy in the Years to Come: Alternatives and Choices
Moderators: Jānis URBANOVIČS and Sergey TSYPLYAYEV
Alexey GROMYKO, Director of the European Programmes, Russkiy Mir Foundation, Russia
Vitaly TRETYAKOV, Editor in Chief, Political Class magazine, Russia
Georgy SATAROV, President of the INDEM foundation, Russia
Gerhard MANGOTT, Researcher at the International Security Research Group (ISRG), Austria
Leonid KARABESHKIN, Associate professor, Eurouniveristy, Tallinn, Estonia
16.30 - 17:30
Discussion. Closing of the conference
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