Expertise Round Table seminar discusses contemporary foreign policy of Russia

     On February 26, 2008, the Gorbachev Foundation hosted an Expertise Round Table standing seminar with a theme “Contemporary Foreign Policy of Russia”. The round table was chaired by the Foundation’s President Mikhail Gorbachev and was held with support and participation of New Eurasia Foundation and the ISE-Center Foundation.
The round table’s participants focused on problems of the multipolar world, changes in the international relations, and the role and place of Russia in these changes.

     Speakers included, among others, Vladimir Baranovsky, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) and Deputy Director of Moscow-based Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), and Dmitri Trenin, Deputy Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment and co-chair of the Moscow Center’s Foreign and Security Policy Program. Taking part in the discussion were some of Russia’s leading political and social scientists and independent analysts: Iosif Diskin, Viktor Kuvaldin, Olga Zdravomyslova, Andrey Ryabov, Valery Solovey, and others. Also participating in the discussion were representatives of the state universities of Tomsk, Saratov, Voronezh, Novgorod and other Russian provincial capitals.