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Program

Monday, 26th April

19.00 – 21.00 HIGH LEVEL OPENING

Freedom, Security and Justice – Common Interests in the Baltic Sea Region

Chair: Krista Kiuru, MP, Chair of STETE, Finland

• Ilkka Kanerva, MP, Chair of the Finnish Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

• Prokhorenko Alexander, Chairman, Committee for External Relations of the St.Petersburg
• Amelie von Zweigbergk, State Secretary, Sweden
• Christina Gestrin, MP, Chairman of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference
• Representative of St. Petersburg City (tbc)
• Dr. Thorsten Geißler, Senator, Deputy Mayor of Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Representative of UBC
• Mika Boedeker, Director of the Information Office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in St.Petersburg

• Development of Baltic Sea Region
• Sven Hirdman, former Ambassador of Sweden to Russia

• Confidence Building between the EU and Russia is a Must - A Challenge for the Baltic Sea Region?
• Henrik Lax, Former Member of the Finnish and European Parliament

• Belarus in the Baltic Sea Cooperation
• Marja-Liisa Kiljunen, Ambassador of Finland to Lithuania and Belarus

• Baltic Dimension of Foreign Policy of Belarus: Potential and Perspectives
• Uladzimir Ulakhovich, Director of Center for International Studies at Belarus State University

• Belarus’ Navigation in EU Dimensions: Seeing Through and Beyond the Eastern Partnership Blueprints
• Vyachaslau Pazdnyak, Head of Analytical Center "Wider Europe", Minsk, Belarus

• Medvedev’s Helsinki + initiative
• Alexandr Sergunin, School of International Relations, St Petersburg State University
• Rolf Ekéus, Chairman of OSSE-nätverket and the board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), former High Commissioner on National Minorities (OSCE)
• Sverre Lodgaard, Senior Research Fellow, NUPI

• Arctic Nuclear Weapon Free Zone, Scandinavia as a first step
• John Scales Avery, Ph.D, Chairman Danish National Group, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

• The Baltic Sea Region Border Control Cooperation (BSRBCC)
• Colonel Antti Hartikainen, Chief for International Affairs, Finnish Border Guard

• Tripartite Border Control Cooperation (Finland-Russia-Estonia)
• Grigory Kolyada, Senior Officer Coast Guard Section, Border Directorate for St.-Petersburg and Leningrad region

• Equality and non-discrimination
• Tone Tingsgård, MP, Deputy Chair of the Swedish delegation to the OSCE

• Tackling corruption in Russia
• Michail Gorny, St. Petersburg Center for Humanities and Political Studies, “Strategy”

• The Rule of law in Russia: Contemporary and Future Prospects
• Boris Pustyntsev, Chair of Citizens' Watch, member of the HR council under the President of Russian Federation

• Role of Media from Russian and Swedish point of views Journalists and international co-operation: Do we meet our duties?
• Jelena Larionova, Head of the project, Barents Press International
• Olof Kleberg, OSSE-nätverket, former editor-in-chief of Västerbottens-Kuriren

• Developing interethnic tolerance: case of Karelia
• Ashot Ayrapetyan, Center for Interethnic Cooperation

I Environment

Chair: Artemova Tatjana, Co-chairperson “Association of Ecological Journalists”

• Urgent Environmental Issues in the Baltic Sea Region
• Jaakko Henttonen, NDEP manager, EBRD

• Nuclear safety of the Baltic Sea Region: Challenges and Possible Solutions
• Oleg Bodrov, Chair of Green World NGO, Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad Oblast

• Environmental cross-border cooperation: models and challenges
• Olga Senova, Chair of the Friends of the Baltic: Baltic Sea Ambassador volunteer programme with Finnish Nature League

• Experience and prospects of Belarus participation in the international environmental cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region
• Aliaksandr Pakhomau, senior researcher, Central Research Institute for Complex Use of Water Resources

• Role of Ombudsman in Securing of the State Guarantees for Protection of the Social Rights: Experience of Novgorod region
• Galina Matveeva, the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman), Novgorod Oblast

• New operational models for non-institutional social care against domestic violence in order to improve the status of women in Karelia

• Maria Sokolova, Head of department, The Complex Centre of Social Amenities of Population of the Sortavala Region

• Stop Domestic Violence – Directions Against Domestic Violence
• Natalia Molchanova, Coordinator of the Pitkaranta project

• The role of international cooperation within the Northern Dimension’s Partnership framework in combating of HIV epidemic in the Russian North-West and Estonia
• Tatjana Magerova, Director of the of the Rehabilitation centre for drug addicts and alcoholics “You will not be alone”
• Roman Gailevich, UNAIDS Programme Adviser, Regional Support Team for Europe and Central Asia

• Promoting Intercultural Management for Working Life in the Baltic Sea Region
• Kristina Henriksson, Senior Lecturer, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
• Prof. Dr. Bernd Waldeck, Kiel University of Applied Sciences, Germany

• Creative Economy and Cultural Cooperation in Northern Countries (EU-Russia Cultural Cooperation, Northern Dimension cultural partnership)
• Marianne Moller''rianne Moller''anne Moller''ne Moller'' Moller''oller''ler''r'''; Consultant, Northern Dimension on Culture

Closing of the 2010 Nordic Forum

Gunnar Lassinantti, The Olof Palme International Center, OSCE-network