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Monday 18th February

THE BALTIC – BLACK SEA AREA: THE HISTORIC LEGACY

9:00 breakfast

10:00 – 10:30welcome 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 – 12:00presentations 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 – 12:30coffee break

12:30 – 14:00presentations and discussion

Grzegorz Groma, Program Director, Batory Foundation, Warsaw

Igor Pavlovsky President, Russo – Baltic media-centre, St.Petersburg

14:00 – 15:00lunch

15:00 – 16:30presentations and discussion

Giedrius Janauskas, Associate Professor, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas

Aanatoly Zavadovsky, Vice-Rector, Kaments-Podolski State University, Ukraine

19:00dinner

Tuesday 19th February

THE BALTIC – BLACK SEA AREA: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY

9:00 breakfast

10:00– 11:30presentations 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 – 12:00coffee break

12:00 – 13:30presentations 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 – 15:30lunch at the restaurant “Dertinez” in the Novgorod Kremlin

15:00 – 17:30excursion around the Kremlin

19:00dinner

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 – 12:00coffee break

12:00 – 13:30presentations 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 – 14:30lunch

14:30 – 16:00presentations 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

19:00dinner

Thursday 21st February

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

NATO – RUSSIA RELATIONS

9:00 breakfast

10:00– 11:30round 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 – 12:00coffee break

12:00 – 13:30discussion to be continued

13:30 – 14:30lunch

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

19:00dinner