Future of Russian-U.S. relations

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Agenda
National Press Club "AFTERNOON NEWSMAKER" with Andranik Migranyan, President of the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation, first Russian Think Tank in America

Friday May 16, 2008. 3.00 P.M.

National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW

Day 1, Monday, May 19

Hart Senate Office Building , Room 902
8.30 - 9.00 AM : Registration

9.00 - 9.15 AM : Welcoming Remarks by His Excellency Yuri Ushakov , Russian Ambassador to Washington

9.15 - 11.00 AM : Russian Economy and U.S. Russia Economic Cooperation

Laura Brank, Partner, Chadbourne & Parke
Vladimir Golovnev, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation
Ruslan Grinberg, Director, Institute of Economics,Russian Academy of Sciences
Trevor Gunn, Director, International Relations, Medtronic, Inc.
Aleksander Lebedev, Chairman, National Reserve Corporation
Aleksey Shishaev, Head of Economic Section, Russian Embassy
Charles Taylor, Former Member of Congress
Curt Weldon, Former Member of Congress
11.00 – 11.30 AM : Coffee Break

11.30 AM - 12.45 PM : World Security Issues: Iran Nuclear Program, Missile Defense, NATO Expansion

Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin, Institute of World Economy & International Relations
Robert Nurick, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Lt Gen Henry A. "Trey" Obering III, Director of the Missile Defense Agency
John Steinbruner, Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland
1.00 - 2.00 PM : Lunch. Speaker TBA

2.00 – 5.00 PM : U.S. – Russia Relations at Crossroads

Thomas Graham, former director of the Russian desk at NSC, presently with Kissinger
Andrew Kuchins, Director of Russian and Eurasian Programs, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Edward Lozansky, American University in Moscow
Robert Legvold, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Andranik Migranyan, Head of U.S. Division, Institute for Democracy and Cooperation
Sergei Rogov, Director, Institute of USA and Canada, Russian Academy of Sciences
Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-Chief, Russia Today TV
6.30 – 9.30 PM : Reception at the Russian Embassy hosted by His Excellency Yuri Ushakov, Russian Ambassador to Washington

During the Day: Exhibition "Women in Art. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art"
Day 2, Tuesday May 20

George Washington University, 651 Duques Hall, 2201 G Street, NW
10.00 - 12.00 AM "Everything you wanted to know about doing business in Russia "

Maria Bourlatskaya, Lauder Institute at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Dmitri Dubograev, International Legal Counsels
Natalia Lazareva, JSC Asset Management Company NEOFITOUS
Richard Robin, George Washington University
Alexei Sidorov, American University in Moscow and Law Firm "Sidorov, Khokhlov, Uskov LLC"
Russian Cultural Center, 1825 Phelps Place, NW
2.00 – 3.15 PM : U.S. - Russia Science, Education, and Cultural Cooperation

Edward Burger, Eurasian Medical Education Program
Greg Guroff, President, Foundation for International Arts and Education
Norman Neureiter, Center for Science, Technology & Security Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Carl Waltz, U.S. Astronaut
Valery Zaboristov, Institute of Bioenergy
3.30 – 5.00 PM : Russian Diaspora in U.S and its role in bolstering U.S. – Russian relations

Gennady Baryshnikov, International Union of Russian Compatriots
Greg Guroff, President, Foundation for International Arts and Education
Yuri Mamchur, Discovery Institute
Nikolai Mikhailov, Foundation "Russkiy Mir"
Marina Soboleva, Congress of Russian Americans
Anatoly Sorokin, Deputy Head, Department of International Relations of the Moscow Government
Sergei Tsapenko, Cossaks of America and Canada
5.00 – 7.00 PM Concluding Reception


Broadcast of Russia Relations at Crossroads.

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=205432-2

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/cache/ASX_205432-2-0-0.asx

What's truly incredible and tangentially related with Russo-Armenian relations that at the very end of the forum at the end of the Q & A session a robust woman with an Eastern European accent asks the panel if Russia is not weak because it has sent Armenians to speak on its behalf to which the panel was left pretty much speechless and in disbelief over the woman's expressed racism.