Monday, April 27:
Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902
8:00 - 9:00 AM: Registration
9:00 - 9:20 AM: Welcoming Remarks by His Excellency Sergei Kislyak - Russian Ambassador to the United States of America
9:20 - 10:45 AM: Managing the World's Economic and Financial Crisis. Building a New Financial World Order.
Anatoly Aksakov - Russian State Duma, Association of Russian Regional Banks
Laura Brank - Chadbourne & Parke
Marshall Goldman - Harvard University
*Gerard Janco - Eurasia Center
Peter Loukianoff - Almaz Capital Partners
William Marsteller - Export - Import Bank of the United States
Aleksei Shishaev - Head of Economic Section, Russian Embassy
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: U.S. and Russia: A Window of Opportunity. The U.S. - Russia - China Triumvirate.
Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin - Institute of World Economics and International Relations
Robert McFarlane - National Security Advisor to President Reagan
Thomas Pickering - Hills & Company, former U.S. Under Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to Russia
Sergei Rogov - Institute of USA and Canada, Russian Academy of Sciences
*Matthew Rojansky - Partnership for a Secure America
12:30 - 1:00 PM: Congressional Luncheon
1:00 - 2:30 PM: Strategic Vision for U.S. - Russia Relations
*Greg Guroff - Foundation for International Arts and Education
Andrew Kuchins - Center for Strategic and International Studies
Robert Legvold - Columbia University
Wayne Merry - Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy
Andranik Migranyan - Institute of Democracy and Cooperation
Margarita Simonyan - Russia Today TV
2:30 - 3:15 PM: Keynote Presentation by the Honorable William Burns - U.S. Under Secretary of State and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia
3:30 - 5:30 PM: America and Russia: Challenges and Opportunities
Jim DeMint - U.S. Senator (R-SC)
William Lind - Free Congress Foundation
*Edward Lozansky - American University in Moscow
Igor Panarin - Russian Diplomatic Academy
Gleb Pavlovsky - Effective Policy Foundation
David Satter - John's Hopkins University
Sergei Tsekov - Supreme Council of Autonomous Republic of Crimea
7:00 - 9:30 PM: Reception at the Russian Embassy, 2650 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
>During the Day: Exhibition Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art
Tuesday, April 28:
George Washington University
651 Duques Hall, 2201 G Street, NW
10:00 AM - Noon: U.S. - Russia Business Roundtable: Doing Business in Russia at a Time of Economic Stress.
Dmitry Beskurnikov - Russian Chamber of Commerce in the U.S.
Dmitri Dubograev - International Legal Counsels
*Richard Robin - George Washington University
Bill Robinson - Attorney at Law, William T. Robinson PLLC
Pavel Tolstykh - Higher School of Economics
Maxim Voltchenko - Russian Speaking Professionals Network of Greater Pennsylvania
12:15 - 1:15 PM: Lunch at GWU
Transfer to Russian Cultural Center, 1825 Phelps Place
2:00 - 2:45 PM: Current American and Russian Agendas in the Former Soviet Space
Mike Averko - Independent Foreign Policy Analyst
Adgur Kharasia - Parliament of Abkhazia
Edward Lozansky - American University in Moscow
*Yuri Mamchur - Discovery Institute
2:45 - 3:30 PM: U.S. - Russia Cooperation in Science and Medicine
Evgeny Brun - Department of Health, City of Moscow
*Edward Lozansky - American University in Moscow
Aleksey Mazus - Department of Health, City of Moscow
Armen Markarian - Rosnor Energo
3:45 - 5:15 PM: Role of the Russian Diaspora in America in Bolstering Business and Cultural Relations
*Greg Guroff - Foundation for International Arts and Education
Nikita Lobanov-Rostovsky - International Council of Russian Compatriots
Konstantin Khizder - Russian DC
Flora Maksumova - Academy of Peoples Diplomacy
George Sheremetiev - Congress of Russian Americans
Olga Zatsepina - Russian-American Cultural Heritage Center
Alexander Zolotov - Association of Russian Youth Abroad "Zarya"
5:30 - 7:30 PM: Final Reception and Cultural Program at the Russian Cultural Center