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"WORLD
RUSSIAN FORUM 2005"
RUSSIA – USA: Towards Economic, Political and Military
Alliance
May 3-4, 2005
Washington, DC
United States Senate
in cooperation with Russian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, RosBusinessConsulting, Citibank, Russian Academy
of Sciences, Congress of Russian Americans, MidAtlantic
- Russia Business Council, Free Congress Foundation,
Global Conference Associates, LTD, Russian-American
Consulting Group, New Times, Russia House, Eurasian
Business Coalition, Center For Defense Information,
Russian-American Medical Association and many other
organizations.
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FORUM AGENDA
May 3, 2005
5:30 PM - Tree Planting Ceremony at the "Alley
of Russian Poets and Composers" at the "Russian
Plaza" - 3600 Calvert Street, NW, Washington, DC
20007.
6:30 PM - Opening Reception at the Russian
Embassy, 2650 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington,
DC 20007.
May 4, 2005
9:00 AM - Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902, Constitution
Avenue, NE, Washington, DC, 20010
Opening Remarks by His Excellency Ambassador of Russian
Federation in the United States of America – Mr. Yuri
Ushakov
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US - Russia Energy Dialogue
Sarah Carey - Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
LLP
Gen. Vladimir Danilov - Advisor to the Government of
the Russian Federation
Vladimir Milov - President, Institute of Energy Policy
Andrew Sommers - President, American Chamber of Commerce
in Russia
Yakov Smotritsky - Professor, New York University
US - Russia Cooperation in Business, Science,
Education and Medicine
Trevor Gunn - Director, International Relations &
Project Management, Medtronic
Konstantin Kabikov - Vice-President, U.S. - Russia Business
Club
Victoria Peterson - Director of Corporate Programs at
the University of Maryland
Thomas Pickering - Senior Vice President, The Boeing
Company, former Ambassador of the US in Russia
Vlad Sobell - Senior Economist, Daiwa Institute of Research,
London, UK
Boris Vinogradsky, MD - President, Russian American
Medical Association
Lunch
Keynote address by Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA)
Round Table discussion on US - Russia Cooperation in
the War on Terror, Middle East, Nuclear Nonproliferation,
Iran Nuclear Program, and on the most important issues
facing Russia and America today: Free Media, Rule of
Law, Civil Society, Yukos Affair and Chechnya. |
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Roscoe
Bartlett - U.S. Congressman (R-MD)
Chris Cannon -
U.S. Congressman (R-UT)
Ariel
Cohen - Heritage Foundation
Louie
Gohmert - U.S. Congressman (R-TX)
Alexander
Konovalov - President, Institute for Strategic Assessment
Edward
Lozansky - President, American University in Moscow
Andranik
Migranyan - Moscow State University for International
Relations
Arkady
Murashev - President, Center for Liberal Conservative
Policy
Igor
Panarin -Professor, Diplomatic Academy, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
Gleb
Pavlovsky - President, Effective Policy Foundation
Andrei
Piontkovsky - President, Center for Strategic Analysis
Alexander
Shumilin - Director, Center for Mideast Policy
Mark Souder
- U.S. Congressman (R-IN)
Ira
Straus - U.S. coordinator of the Committee on Eastern
Europe and Russia in NATO
Todd
Tiahrt - U.S. Congressman (R-KS)
Anatoly
Utkin - Professor, Institute of the United States and
Canada, Russian Academy of Sciences
Eugene
Vertlieb - Professor, George C. Marshall Center
Celeste
Wallander - Director of Russian Program, Center for Strategic
and International Studies
Paul
Weyrich - Chairman and CEO, Free Congress Foundation
Nikolai
Zlobin - Director of Russian and Asian Programs, Center
for Defense Information
The Russia House Washington office address:
1800 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Tel. (202)986-6010
Fax. (202)667-1018
E-mail: russia@russiahouse.org |
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During the
Forum we met with several important people who are interested
in helping us not only in organization of the 3rd Conference,
but would like to participate in R-AMA work in general:
- Richard Custer – Analyst from the American
International Health Alliance, Inc. (AIHA)
- Xenia Horczakiwskyj - Legislative Director for Congressman
Curt Weldon, R-PA
- Irene Kelner, Senior Editor of the Voice
of America
- Ludmila Foster – Executive Director, Congress
of Russian Americans
- Trevor Gunn, PhD – Director for International Relations,
Medtronic,
Inc.
- Sophia Michaelson – Executive Director, American Russian
Cancer Alliance
- Konstantin Kabikov - Vice-President, US - Russia Business
Club
- Victoria Peterson - Director of Corporate Programs
at the University of Maryland
- Robert Sharetta – President, International
Investor, LLC
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- Marc Miller
– Director, Discovering Russia
- Andrew Slaski, MD, FAAP – President, Socrates 2000 International,
Inc.
- Earl Rasmussen – President, Kaleidoscope Group, LLC
- Val Kogan – President – MidAtlantic-Russia Business Council
- Matt Sloan, Reporter, CNN News
- Leo Galperin – Director, Language Connections - Translation
and Interpreting
Overall this was a very productive trip and we achieved all
goal that we set before. Now it is time to get back to work… |
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