Russia: The 2020 Perspective

The Session will bring together a high-level international contingent of foreign policy experts, business representatives, scholars, journalists, and government officials to focus on the following questions concerning Russia's future:

How will the elections shift power in Russia?
Will democratic developments and reforms of governance structures have taken a stronger foothold in twelve years?
To what extent will the Russian economy remain based on resource extraction or will it diversify and more fully integrate into the global economy?
What are the trends in the energy sector?
What are the demographic projections for Russia in 2020 and how will demographics influence Russia's national and regional identities and its immigration policies?
How Russia will deal with ethnic and religious challenges from Chinese influx into a Russia Far East to growing Muslim population?
How will Russia develop in scientific, technological, and military terms?
What will guide Russia's policies toward its neighboring countries, the Middle East, the Far East, Asia, the European Union and the United States?

Date

Apr 05 - Apr 10, 2008

Session no.

Session 450

Content overview

Faculties Co-Chair

Faculties

Oksana Antonenko

Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London

Clifford Gaddy

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program and Global Economy and Development Program, and Founding Member, Center for Social and Economic Dynamics, Brookings, Washington, DC

Ruslan Grinberg

Head of the Institute for International Economic and Political Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow

Andrew Jack

Journalist, The Financial Times, London

Sergei Kulik

Head of Department of Relations with the European Union, Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow

Viktor Kuvaldin

Head of Centre "Expertisa" , Gorbachev Foundation, Moscow

Ralph Land

Co-Chairman, Bristish Romanian Chamber of Commerce, London; Former Chairman, Russo-British Chamber of Commerce, London.

Gunnar Wiegand

Head of Unit, Directorate -General for External Relations, European Commission, Brussels

Jianmin Wu

Member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Group, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China; former President, China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing

Benita Ferrero-Waldner

former European Commissioner for External Relations and the European Neighbourhood Policy (invited)

David Kramer

Senior Director for Human Rights and Human Freedoms, McCain Institute; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

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