Monday 18th February

THE BALTIC – BLACK SEA AREA: THE HISTORIC LEGACY

9:00 breakfast

10:00 – 10:30 welcome adresses

Elisabeth Bauer, head of the Konrad Adenauer foundation in Saint Petersburg

Boris Kuznetsov,Director of St. Petersburg Center for Integration Research and Projects (CIRP)

10:30 – 12:00 presentations and discussions

Hieronim Grala, Director, Polish Culture Center, Moscow
Elena Borisenok Head, Department of East Slavonic Studies, Institute of Slavonic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

12:00 – 12:30 coffee break

12:30 – 14:00 presentations and discussion

Grzegorz Groma, Program Director, Batory Foundation, Warsaw
Igor Pavlovsky President, Russo – Baltic media-centre, St.Petersburg
14:00 – 15:00 lunch

15:00 – 16:30 presentations and discussion

Giedrius Janauskas, Associate Professor, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
Aanatoly Zavadovsky, Vice-Rector, Kaments-Podolski State University, Ukraine

19:00 dinner

Tuesday 19th February

THE BALTIC – BLACK SEA AREA: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY

9:00 breakfast

10:00– 11:30 presentations and discussion

Jaroslav Bratkiewicz, Director, Department for Eastern policy, MFA of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw
Nikolai Mezhevich, Professor, School of International Relations, St.-Petersburg State University

11:30 – 12:00 coffee break

12:00 – 13:30 presentations and discussion

Rainer Lindner, Senior Research Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
Andrey Makarychev, Professor, Department of International Relations and Political Science, Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University
Andrzej de Lazari Professor, Institute of International Studies, University of Lodz

14:00 – 15:30 lunch at the restaurant “Dertinez” in the Novgorod Kremlin

15:00 – 17:30 excursion around the Kremlin

19:00 dinner

Wednesday 20th February

THE BALTIC – BLACK SEA AREA: INTERESTS AND POLICY OPTIONS

9:00 breakfast

10:00– 11:30 presentations and discussion
Modest Kolerov, President, Fund “Svobodnaya Rossija”, Moscow
Gintaras Stepanovicius, Vice-speaker of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius

11:30 – 12:00 coffee break

12:00 – 13:30 presentations and discussion

Sergei Markedenov, Head of the Inter-ethnic relations department, the Institute for Political and Military Analysis, Moscow
Mikhail Stalnukhin, Chairman, Narva City Council

13:30 – 14:30 lunch

14:30 – 16:00 presentations and discussion

Oskars Kastens, Minister for Special Assignment for Society Integration Affairs, The Government of the Republic of Latvia, Riga
Andrey Fedorov, Director, The Center of Consulting and Political Studies, Moscow

19:00 dinner

Thursday 21st February

THE BALTIC – BLACK SEA AREA IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EU – RUSSIA AND NATO – RUSSIA RELATIONS

9:00 breakfast

10:00– 11:30 round table discussion

Paul Vandoren, Deputy Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Russia, Moscow
Andris Teikmanis, Ambassador of the Republic of Latvia, Moscow
Gael Moullec, Officer, Political Affaires and Security Policy Division, NATO HQ, Brussels
Jonas Čekulis, Member of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius

11:30 – 12:00 coffee break

12:00 – 13:30 discussion to be continued

13:30 – 14:30 lunch

15:00 – 16:00 closing of the Winter School

19:00 dinner