The World Russia Forum 2011 (The Lozansky Forum) will take place in Washington, DC on March 29 – 30. Celebrating its own 30th birthday, the Forum is dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic space mission.
For additional information and registration please visit: www.russiahouse.org/wrf.php
Washington office:
1800 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Tel/Fax (202)364-0200/(240)554-1650
E-mail: russia@russiahouse.org
Moscow office:
15 Novy Arbat, Suite 2221
Moscow, Russia, 119019
Tel./Fax +7(495) 695-3021
E-mail: russia@russiahouse.org
As of today, the Forum program looks as follows:
World Russia Forum ● Washington, DC ● March 29-30, 2011
Preliminary Agenda
Tuesday, March 29: U.S. Senate. Hart 902
9.00 - 9.30 AM: Opening Ceremony. Welcoming Remarks by American and Russian officials
9.30 - 10.45 AM: U.S. – Russia Business Council Panel: From Silicon Valley to Skolkovo
Edward Verona, President, US – Russia Business Council
Dmitry Afanasiev, Partner, Yegorov, Putinsky, Afanasiev & Partners
Konstantin Demetriou, Managing Director of the Department for Investments, Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies corporation (RUSNANO)
Oleg Svintsitski, Senior VP, Siguler Guff & Company
Ruben Vardanian, President, Skolkovo Business School
11.00 – 11.20: Coffee Break
11.20 - 12.45 PM: Russia’s Road to Economy Modernization
Alexei Khokhlov, Senior Vice – President, Moscow State University
Vladimir Shiltsev, President, Russian – American Science Association
Alexander Shokhin, Chairman, Center for U.S. – Russia Rapprochement
David Yakobashvili, President, Russia – U.S. Business Council
1.0- 2.30 PM: Lunch with keynote address by:
William Burns, Under Secretary of State (Invited)
Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman, Committee on International Relations, Russian State Duma
2.30 – 5.00 PM: Future agenda for U.S. – Russia cooperation. Presentation of the Center for U.S. Russia Rapprochement.
Thomas Graham, Partner, Kissinger & Associates
Andrew Kuchins, Director of the Russia and Eurasia Programs, CSIS
Robert Legvold – Columbia University
Sergei Markov, Deputy of the State Duma
Andranik Migranyan, President, Institute of Democracy and Cooperation
Arkady Murashev, President, Centerr for Liberal Conservative Policy
Yevgeny Savostyanov, Executive VP, the Center for U.S. – Russia Rapprochement
Alexander Shokhin, Chairman, Center for U.S. – Russia Rapprochement
David Yakobashvili, President, Russia – U.S. Business Council
6.30 – 9.00 PM: Reception at the Russian Embassy celebrating the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first space flight with American Astronauts and Russian Cosmonauts.
Wednesday, March 30: George Washington University Business School; 651 Duques Hall, 2201 G Street, NW
10.00 – 11.45 AM: U.S. – Russia Business Roundtable. Presentations of specific proposals for U.S. – Russia cooperation in high-tech and other areas with participation of representatives of American and Russian companies and venture funds.
12.00 – 1.00 PM: Lunch at GW
Afternoon at the Russian Cultural Center, 1825 Phelps Place, NW
2.30 – 5.00 PM: Round Table Discussion by the Leadership of the newly formed Center for U.S. – Russia Rapprochement , U.S. experts and Russian Diaspora activists to discuss the role of NGO’s in formulating the American-Russian cooperation agenda.
5.00 – 7.00 PM: Reception at the Russian Cultural Center
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