Conference "Poland-Russia. Balance Sheet 2014": presentation of the recent public opinion surveys commissioned by the Centre in Poland and Russia and discussion about consequences of the year 2014 for the world order.

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PROGRAMME
Warsaw, 6 March 2015

Opening         

Sławomir Dębski, Director, the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding
Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Chairman of the Council of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding, Co-chairman of the Polish-Russian Group for Difficult Matters

Panel 1: Poles about Russia and Russians, Russians about Poland and Poles – debate about recent public opinion surveys commissioned by the Centre in Poland and Russia

Moderator: Ernest Wyciszkiewicz, Deputy Director, the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding (Warsaw)  

Speakers:

Valery Fedorov, Director General, Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM, Moscow)
Olga Kamenczuk, Director on International and Public Relations, VCIOM (Moscow)
Łukasz Mazurkiewicz, CEO at ARC Rynek i Opinia, Project Coordinator of sociological research on behalf of CPRDU (Warsaw)
Artem Malgin, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University)
Eugeniusz Smolar, Senior Fellow, Centre for International Relations (Warsaw)
Valery Masterov, the Centre for Russian-Polish Dialogue and Understanding (Moscow)  

Panel 2: The Social Dimension of Polish-Russian Relations an Instance of the "Polish - Russian Youth Exchange"

Moderator: Evgeniy Klimakin, journalist of Russian Section in Polish Radio External Service

Svetlana Semenova, Headteacher of the School of Fine Arts for Children, St. Petersburg
Krzysztof Pawlak, Project Coordinator in Piastun – The Foundation for Children and Youth, Opole
Ekaterina Andreyasheva, „Polish-Russian School Afloat”, Moscow
Anita Wietrzyńska, „Polish-Russian School Afloat”, Warsaw

Panel 3: Consequences of the Year 2014 for the World Order

Moderator: Sławomir Dębski, Director, CPRDU

Speakers:
Anton Barbashin, Research Fellow, Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding (Warsaw)
Ian Bond, Director of Foreign Policy, Centre for European Reform (London)
Samuel Charap, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies (Washington) 
Andrey Kortunov, Director General, Russian International Affairs Council (Moscow)
Marek Menkiszak, Head of Russian Department, Centre for Eastern Studies (Warsaw)
Ulrich Speck, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Europe (Brussels)