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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.



    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.
    Last edited by freakyfreaky; 05-26-2008, 12:29 PM.
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