INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)
under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
119454, Russia, Moscow, Prospekt Vernadskogo, 76. www.mgimo.ru
The events are by invitation only, closed to general audiences, and aimed at Russian and international experts, diplomats, and media/political observers. Simultaneous interpretation into English will be provided via Zoom.
We invite you to the event “Current Trends in and around Belarus”, which will take place at MGIMO on the 21st of October, 2021, 15:00-18:00 Moscow time (GMT+3)1 with a short 10 min break.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89953154076?pwd=dkhYNmdZUkpWSTJkVWVMK0ZRYjdndz09
Conference ID: 899 5315 4076
Access code: 285815
15.00 – Welcoming remarks from MGIMO Vice-Rector for Human Resources Vladimir Morozov
15.05 – Introductory remarks by the moderator Yulia Nikitina, Associate Professor, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Eurasian Studies, ISS MGIMO
15.10 – Foreign Policy
- Andrey Rusakovich, Senator, vice-Chair of the Permanent Commission of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus on international affairs and national security, Professor, Belarusian State University;
- Yauheni Preiherman, Founder and Director of the Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations,
- Dzianis Melyantsou, coordinator of the Belarusian Foreign Policy program at the Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations
15.55 – Social development
- Aleksandr Shatko, Deputy Chair of the Belaya Rus’ Republican Public Association,
- Irina Lashuk, Head of the Department of economic sociology and psychology of entrepreneurship of Belorussian State Economic University
- Nikolay Sukhotsky, Analyst (sociology), Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research.
16.45 – 18.00 – general discussion, comments by Russian scholars (up to 4 min per comment)
- Alexander Gushchin, Associate Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities,
- Daria Khaspekova, Editor, Eurasia.Expert,
- Kirill Koktysh, Associate Professor, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO,
- Elena Kuzmina, Head of the Department of Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Center for the Post-Soviet Studies, IMEMO,
- Nikolay Mezhevich, Professor, Chief Researcher, Director, Center for Belarusian Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Baltic Studies,
- Maxim Samorukov, fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center and deputy editor of Carnegie.ru,
- Sergey Panteleev, Director of the ANO Institute of the Russian Abroad,
- Sergey Rekeda, Director, Center for the Study of Integration Perspectives,
- Vyacheslav Sutyrin, vice-rector for international affairs, State Academic University for the Humanities (GAUGN), editor-in-chief of Eurasia.Expert,
- Anna Tsybulina, Associate Professor, Department of Integration Studies, MGIMO,
- Sergey Utkin, Head, Group for Strategic Assessment, IMEMO,
- Anna Velikaya, Researcher, IMEMO
Chatham House rules for the discussions, the event is off-the-record.