Day 1: Sunday, April 25: Commemoration of the Elbe River
Linkage and WWII Victory
10:00 – 11:30
AM: Arlington Cemetery Ceremony to honor the WWII and Elbe River Linkage
Veterans
12:00 – 3:00
PM: Lincoln Memorial, presentations by U.S. and Russian military bands and
choirs.
Day 2: Monday, April 26: U.S. Congress, Hart Senate Office
Building, Room 902
9:00 – 9:30 AM: Opening Welcoming Remarks:
William Burns, Under
Secretary of U.S. Department of State
Sergei Kislyak, Russian Ambassador to the U.S.
Petr Sheremetev, Chairman, International Council of Russian Compatriots
9:30 – 10:45 AM: U.S. - Russia Past, Present and
Future Military and Security Cooperation: WWII, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Missile
Defense, and Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Gen. Vladimir
Dvorkin, Institute of the World Economy and International Relations
Victor Ivanov, Head, Federal Drug Enforcement Service
Gil Kerlikowske, Head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Alexander Torshin, Vice-Speaker, Russia’s Federation Council
10:45 AM – 12:30 PM: The State of Russian Economy
and U.S.-Russia Business Cooperation
Marshall Goldman,
Harvard University
Dennis Hightower, Deputy Secretary of Commerce, United States
Georgiy Muradov, Head, Department
of International and Economic Relations, Moscow City Government
Daniel Poneman, Deputy Secretary of Energy
Edward Verona, President, U.S. - Russia Business Council
12:30 – 2:30 PM: Congressional Luncheon
Bill Delahunt
(D-MA)
Denis Kucinich (D-OH)
Carl Levin (D-MI)
Mikhail Margelov, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Russia’s Federation
Council
Vladimir Platonov, Speaker of the Moscow Duma
Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)
Alexander Torshin, Vice-Speaker, Russia’s Federation Council
2:30 – 5:00 PM: Reset in U.S.–Russia
Relations. Balance Sheet.
Ariel Cohen, Senior
Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation
Donald Devine, Vice-Chairman, American Conservative Union
Thomas Graham, “Kissinger & Associates”
Andrew Kuchins, Director of the Russia and Eurasia Programs, CSIS
Sergei Markov, Deputy of the Russian State Duma
Andranik Migranyan, President, Institute of Democracy and Cooperation
Michael McFaul, Head of the Russian Desk, National Security Council
Judith McHale, Undersecretary of State for Public affairs
Gleb Pavlovsky, President, Effective Policy Foundation
Sergei Rogov, Director, Institute of USA and Canada, Russian Academy of
Sciences
6:30 – 9:00 PM: Reception at the Russian Embassy,
2650 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Day 3: Tuesday, April 27
Morning at George
Washington University
651 Duques Hall, 2201 G Street, NW
10:00 – 12:30: New Markets, New Opportunities
Nadir Bitiev, Trade and Investment Advisor
Anna Helm, GWU Center for
International Business Education and Research
George Koumal, Bering Strait
Tunnel Project
Richard Robin, GWU Columbian
College of Arts and Sciences
Bruce Talley, American
Investment Company
12:30 – 1:30 PM: Lunch at GWU
Afternoon at the
Russian Cultural Center
1815 Phelps Place, NW
2:30 – 5:00 PM: U.S. – Russia Educational and
Cultural Cooperation. The Role of Russian Diaspora in Bolstering U.S. –
Russia Cooperation.
Gennady
Baryshnikov, International Council of Russian Compatriots
Victor Kamyshanov, International Federation for Peace and Conciliation
Yuri Kaplun, Moscow House of Comaptriots
Yevgeny Kozhokin, Russian Institute for Strategic Studies
Edward Lozansky, American University in Moscow
Yuri Mamchur, Discovery Institute
Petr Sheremetev, International Council of Russian Compatriots
Andrei Meleshkin, The Savior Fund
Boris Vinogradsky, Russian-American Medical Association
5:00 – 8:00 PM Final Reception