Please join the leading American and Russian experts at the Russian Cultural Center in Washington D.C. to discuss the role of NGOs, Public Diplomacy, and Media in formulating the agenda for US – Russia political, educational and cultural cooperation.

Address:

1825 Phelps Place, N.W. Washington DC 20008, USA

Agenda:

10.00 – 11.00 AM: What are the most important disagreement issues between the United States and Russia?

11.00 – 11.15 AM: Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.45 PM: Is it possible to find common and mutually beneficial approaches to resolve at least some of these issues and what is the role of NGOs,  Public Diplomacy and the Media in this process?  

12.45 – 2.00 PM: Lunch Break

2.00 – 3.15 PM: Educational and cultural exchanges as an effective tool in promoting US – Russia rapprochement. How one defines the role of “Soft Power” in this process?

5.00 – 7.00 PM: Concluding Reception

Speakers:

• Patrick Armstrong — former political counselor at Canadian Embassy in Moscow
• Dmitry Babich — political analyst for the Voice of Russia radio station
• William Dunkerley — Publishing Consultant
• Leonid Gozman — Deputy Director, Rosnano Corporation
• Anatoly Karlin — Da Russophile
• Edward Lozansky — President, American University in Moscow
• Mikhail Margelov — Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of Russia
• Sergey Markedonov — Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Daniel McAdams — Executive Director, the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity
• Andranik Migranyan — President, Institute for Democracy and Cooperation
• Nicolai Petro — Professor, University of Rhode Island
• Martin Sieff — Chief Foreign Correspondent, the Globalist
• Yuri Zaitsev — Director, Russian Cultural Center
• Nikolai Zlobin — President, Center on Global Interests