Dialog08

Thursday 12 June 2008

14.00

• Registration and coffee

14.30

• Rt Hon Sir Menzies Campbell CBE QC MP (Conference Chairman, Day One) Opening Remarks

15.00

• Session 1: Russia After the ElectionsLed by Mike Gapes MP (Chairman, Foreign Affairs Select Committee)

Contribution from:

• Dr Luke March (Senior Lecturer, Politics, Edinburgh University) Managed opposition in a 'Sovereign democracy'
• Dr Edwin Bacon (Head, School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College) Dynamics of the Transfer from Putin to Medvedev
• Dr Igor Bunin. The Beginning of the New Political Cycle: Main Trends of Russian Politics
• Dep. Evgeny Fedorov. From Russia of Raw Materials to Innovative Russia.
• Vladimir Zharikhin. Possible Changes of Policy of Russia on the Postsoviet Space

16.10

• Tea

16.30

• Session 2: UK-Russian Relations After the Elections

Led by Rt Hon Lord Anderson of Swansea (former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee)

Contributions from:

• Sir Francis Richards (Director of the Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy, University of Birmingham): Political/Security Issues.
• Dr Derek Averre (Research Fellow, University of Birmingham): EU-Russia Relations.
• Stephen Dalziel (Executive Director, Russo-British Chamber of Commerce) UK-Russian Trade in a Tense Climate
• Prof. Victor Kuvaldin. Why are We at Odds with Each Other?
• Helen Shestopal. Political landscape in Russia  up to 2020: scenarios of political development after elections of 2008

18.00

• End of conference Day 1

18.30

• Dinner for Russian delegates and principal speakers with All-Party British – Russian Parliamentary Group, chaired by Mike Gapes MP - Club Room, 1 Parliament Street, House of Commons
  

Friday 13 June 2008

09.30

• Chairman's opening remarks : Sir Francis Richards  
  

09.30

• Session 3: Russia’s Contribution to Western Culture in Our Common European Home

Led by Julian Gallant (Director, Pushkin House)

Contribution from:

• Mikhail Odesskiy. Russia’s Contribution to the Western culture: Problem of Characteristics
• Dr Marina Frolova-Walker (Lecturer in Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge) Exporting Russianness: National Stereotypes in Cultural Exchange
• Father Michael Dudko (Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Knightsbridge) The Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia

10.45

• Coffee break

11.15

• Russia, Europe and Energy Sercurity     

Led by Professor Alan Riley. (City University, London)
Why Liberalisation is Going to Happen/ Energy Sercurity in Russia

Contribution from :

• Sir John Thomson Encouraging Nuclear Energy and Avoiding Proliferation
• Kirill Yakovlev Energy Security.
• John Lough (Independent Consultant) Rebalancing EU-Russia Energy Issues

12.30

• Lunch

13.45

• Session 5: Russia, Europe and Global Security

Led by David Clark, Chair of the Russia Foundation

Contributions from:

• Professor Anatol Lieven (Kings College, London) 

• Professor John Russell (Professor of Russian and Security Studies, University of Bradford): The Role of Russia in the Fight Against Global Terrorism.
  
• Dr Daria Boklan. Global Environmental Sercuirty and Economic Development
  
• Alexey Zubov. Global Security.

15.00

• Tea

15.30

• Concluding session

• Deputy Federov and Deputy Beschnetov discuss economic issues and their reaction to the Conference
• Chairman's Concluding Statement

16.15

• Conference conclusion

18.30

• Reception at Pushkin House, Bloomsbury

20.00
Russian delegates free for individual dinner