Конференция Belarus in Europe: Economic Cooperation and Political Dialogue

Состоится 27-29 марта 2008 года в Вене.
Требуется предварительная регистрация: idm@idm.at, 01/319 72 58 – 0, Hahngasse 6/1/24, 1090 Vienna

Программа:

Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Belarusian Economy: Present and Future Venue: Renner Institute
12.30 – 18.00:
closed event for economic experts and company representatives

Friday, March 28, 2008
Symposium Belarus: Analyses and Scenarios Venue: Diplomatic Academy Vienna, Favoritenstraße 15a, 1040 Vienna
9.00 – 18.00:
Amb. Dr. Emil Brix, Vice-Chairman of IDM; Austrian Foreign Ministry, Head of Section V
Key-Notes Project team:
Prof. Hans-Georg Heinrich, Scientific Director, Belarus Project; President, European Policy Consultants (EPOC); Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Science, Vienna University
Dr. Ludmilla Lobova, Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), Project
Coordinator, Belarus Project; Lead Consultant, European Policy Consultants (EPOC), Vienna MEP
Dr. Hannes Swoboda, Member of Committee on Foreign Affairs (tbc)

Belarus: View from Inside Constructive Dialogue: Presentations of Belarusian Participants
(languages: Russian/German with simultaneous interpretation)

I. 10.00 – 12.30:
1) Political Elites
Dr. Sergey G. Musienko, Head of “ECOOM” Analytical Center Minsk
Anna Zadora, Attaché for teaching and research at Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg, Minsk/Strasbourg
Moderation: Dr. Ludmilla Lobova, IDM, Vienna

2) Economic development
Prof. Vladimir N. Shimov, Rector of Belarus State Economic University, Minsk
Dr. Leonid Zaiko, Director, Analytic Center “Strategiya” Belarus
Dr. Jaroslav Romanchuk, Chair, Mises Center for Scientific Research, Minsk
Igor V. Katibnikov, Chairman of the Board of ACB “Belrosbank”
Moderation: Prof. Gerhard Fink, Vienna University of Economics

13.00 – 14.00: Break

II. 14.30 – 17.00:
3) Chernobyl
Prof. Yakov E. Kenigsberg, Chairman of the National Commission on Radiation Protection under the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk
Representative of IAEA
Dr. Andrey Stepanov, European Humanities University, Vilnius/Minsk Comment:
Corinna Windisch, Department of Political Science, Vienna University
Moderation: Prof. Hans-Georg Heinrich, Scientific Director, Belarus Project

4) Civil Society
Dr. Andrey Vardamatskiy, Laboratory of Axiometrical Research, Minsk
Vyatcheslav N. Zenkovich, Director of the Interfax West –Belarus, News Agency office in Minsk
Anna Kviloria, “ECOOM” Analytical Center Minsk
Zhanna Litvina, Chairperson of Public Organization“Belarusian Association of Journalists”
Comment: Martin Rossmann, Member of the OSCE/ODIHR elections observation missions
Moderation: Benedikt Harzl, EURAC research, Bolzano/Bozen

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Belarus: View from Outside (language: English)
9.30 – 13.00:

Presentations of representatives from Austria and neighboring states of Belarus
Dr. Johannes Eigner, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Director of Department
III.4 Prof. Raimundas Lopata, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius Prof. Anatoliy Mikhailov, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, President Prof.
Rafal Sadowski, Center for Eastern Studies, Warsaw
Moderation: Amb. DDr. Gerald Hinteregger

11.30: Break

Dr. Tatiana Zhurzhenko, University Charkov, Ukraine
Michail Delyagin, Director of the Institute of Globalization Issues, Moscow
Andrey Ryabov, Editor-in-chief “World Economy and International Relations”, Moscow
Comment: Representatives of School of Economics, Moscow State University and
Institute of Economy, Russian Academy of Sciences
Moderation: Amb. Dr. Franz Cede