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Advancing a Constructive Agenda for US-Russia Relations – Washington, D.C. Event
TND Exclusive: Eric Dubin |
Precious few Americans are aware that Western media is lying up a propaganda storm about Russia and Putin on par with some of the greatest and most pervasive propaganda efforts in history. But if you think the media is bad, accademia is worse. Self-censorship and not wishing to challenge group think runs rampant, to the point where it really isn’t all that surprising that America’s foreign policy establishment remains largely clueless about the conflict in the Ukraine.
Today and tomorrow, an important US-Russia forum will be held in Washington, D.C. Events like this help break some of the ice in the academic community, and will hopefully move the insular, ignorant American establishment in the direction of a fact-based, reasoned assessment of genuine Russia security interests and the reality of American and NATO aggression towards Russia.
Confirmed speakers include Professor Stephen Cohen, one of America’s leading scholars on Russia and Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
For more information, click here and here. The program schedule is reproduced below.
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35th Annual US-Russia Forum
Dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of the Allied Victory in World War II
March 25-26 – Washington
March 27 – New York
April 24-25 – Moscow and Washington
WORLD RUSSIA FORUM 2015
Wednesday, March 25: Russian Cultural Center, 1825 Phelps Place, NW; Washington, DC
11.00 – 11.15: Welcoming Remarks by Oleg Zhiganov, Director of the Russian Cultural Center
11.15AM – 1.00PM: Presentation of Russian – American Science Association (RASA)
Sergei Chasovskikh – Georgetown University
Igor Efimov – George Washington University
Edward Lozansky – American University in Moscow, Moderator
Artem Oganov – Stony Brook University & Skolkovo
Nikolai Vasilyev – Harvard Medical School
1.00 – 2.00PM: Lunch Break
2.00 – 3.30 PM: US – Russia Educational Programs
Steven Barnes – George Mason University
Sharyl Cross – St. Edwards University
Joseph Duffey – Former President, American University
Igor Okunev – Russian State University of International Relations (MGIMO)
David Patton – American Councils for International Education
Andrey Rezaev – St. Petersburg State University
Michael Stopford – University of Nebraska
Nathaniel Trumbull – University of Connecticut
3.30 – 5.00 PM: US – Russia Science and Technology Cooperation
Rita Guenther – National Academy of Sciences
Maija Kukla – National Science Foundation
Michail Myagkov – Skolkovo
Natalia Romashkina – National Research Nuclear University
Kendrick White – University of Nizhni Novgorod & Marchmont Capital Partners
5.00 – 7.00: Reception
Thursday, March 26, 2.30 – 6.30 PM: Military conflict in Ukraine. Major Crisis in US – Russia relations. Searching for the way out.
Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216, Constitution Avenue, between 1st and 2nd Streets, NE
2.30 – 3.00 PM: Welcoming remarks from His Excellency Sergei Kislyak, Russian Ambassador to US and Hon. Dana Rohrarbacher (R-CA) – Member of Congress
3.00 – 4.15 PM:
Stephen F. Cohen – New York and Princeton Universities
Gilbert Doctorow – American Committee for East – West Accord
Edward Lozansky – American University in Moscow, Moderator
Ted Postol – MIT
4.15 – 4.30 PM: Break
4.30 – 6.00 PM:
The Ukrainian Crisis: Alternative Media, Alternative Narratives.
Katrina vanden Heuvel – Editor and Publisher of The Nation, Moderator
Lauren Goodrich – Stratfor, TBC
Ray McGovern – RayMcgovern.com
Robert Parry – Consortium News
Martin Sieff – Baltimore Post-Examiner
Patrick L. Smith – Salon.com
6.00 – 6.30 PM: Presentation of Alternative Sites by Charles Bausman, founder of Russia-Insider.com
russialist.org; globalresearch.ca; russiaotherpointsofview.com;
vineyardsaker.blogspot.ru; US-Russia.org; eurasiareview.com;fortruss.blogspot.com;newcoldwar.org;
orientalreview.org;russiatimes.org;
7.00 – 9.30 PM Reception at the Russian Embassy;
2650 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Source: http://thenewsdoctors.com/advancing-a-constructive-agenda-for-us-russia-relations-washington-d-c-event/
