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International Conference
RUSSIA IN THE MULTIPOLAR WORLD CONFIGURATION
Moscow, October 28–29, 2010
organized by
Institute of Economy, Russian Academy of Sciences,
with the support of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
the Russian Foundation for Humanities, the National Investment Council and
Center for National Strategies for Health Advancement
Presidium of the RAS, Leninsky avenue, 32a
Blue Hall
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P R O G R A M M E
Time limit for:
presentations – 10–15 minutes,
discussion statements – 5 minutes.
Thursday, October 28
Registration – 9.30
Opening Session
10.00–11.30
Welcome by:
Ruslan Grinberg (Russia),Corresponding Member of the RAS,Director of the Institute of Economy, RAS
Alexander Nekipelov (Russia), Academician,Vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Andrey Denisov (Russia), First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Oleg Bogomolov (Russia), Academician, Councillor of the RAS
Valery Geyets (Ukraine), Academician, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Director, Institute for Economics and Forecasting, NASU
Alexander Lebedev (Russia), President of the National Investment Council
Svetlana Glinkina(Russia), Prof., Dr. Sc., Deputy Director of the Institute of Economy, RAS
Viktor Budkin (Ukraine), Prof., Dr. Sc., Chief Researcher, Institute of World Economy and International Relations NASU
Coffee break: 11.30–11.45
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- RUSSIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY GLOBAL ECONOMY:
THE CHOICE OF THE FOREIGN ECONOMIC STRATEGY,
itS GEOPOLITICAL AND GEOECONOMIC ASPECTS
Opponents:
Igor Orlik (Russia),Prof., D.Sc., Chief Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS
Alexander Bykov (Russia),Prof., D.Sc., Chief Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS
Session 1
11.45–13.00
Moderators: Svetlana Glinkina (Russia),
Prof., D.Sc., Deputy Director of the Institute of Economy, RAS;
Gheorghe Zaman (Romania), Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, Director, Institute of National Economy, Romanian Academy of Sciences
Peter Havlik (Austria),Deputy Director, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies(WIIW):
Impact of the global crisis and future growth challenges.
MilanŠikula (Slovakia), Prof., D.Sc., Director, Institute of Economic Research:
Russia in the process of creating anew economic architecture of the current world.
Ivan Teodorović (Croatia), Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Economics, Zagreb; Ljubo Jurčić (Croatia), President, Croatian Economic Association, Professor, Institute of Economics, Zagreb; Mladen Mlinarević (Croatia), Vice-President, Croatian Economic Association:
Globalization in a polycentric world.
Anatoly Barkovsky (Russia),D.Sc., Chief Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS:
Strategic guidelines for Russia’s geoeconomic diplomacy.
Boris Heyfets (Russia),D.Sc., Professor, Chief Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS:
Foreign economic aspects of Russian modernization.
Lunch: 13.00 –14.00
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SESSION 1 (continued)
14.00–15.15
Moderators: Vladimir Pankov (Russia),
Prof., D.Sc., Head of the Department for International Economic Affairs,
State - University – Higher School of Economics;
Peter Havlik (Austria),Deputy Director, Senior Economist,The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies(WIIW)
Dmitry Sorokin, Corresponding Member of the RAS,DeputyDirector of the Institute of Economy, RAS:
Russia on the Political and Economic Map of the World
Irina Novikova (Belarus),D.Sc., Professor, Head of Economics Department, Academy of Public Administration under the Aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus:
Transformation of the paradigm of international economic cooperation as an imperative for entering the integrated global economy.
Vladimir Portyakov (Russia),Prof., D.Sc., Deputy Director, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, RAS:
Multipolarity from the Russian and the Chinese point of view and international challenges.
Natalya Smorodinskaya (Russia), Ph.D.,Head of the Department of New Institutions of the Foreign Economic Policy, Institute of Economy, RAS:
The Baltic direction of European integration and the prospects for Russia’s participation in it.
Ivan Chuchka (Ukraine),Corresponding Member, Ukrainian Academy of Informatics, Member, International Council, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Ph.D., Docent, Department of Economics and Management,Mukachevo State University;Ivan Ustych (Ukraine),Researcher, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Roman Moldavchuk(Ukraine), Candidate for a degree, Uzhgorod National University:
Cross-border regional economic cooperation as an efficient form of international cooperation (Ukraine’s experience in cross-border economic cooperation with the new members of the EU).
Discussion
Break: 15.15 –15.30
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SESSION 2
15.30–16.45
Moderators: Mikhail Golovnin (Russia), Ph.D., Head of the Center for Problems of Globalization of the Russian Economy, Institute of Economy, RAS;
Sergey Dedkov (Belarus), Ph.D., Docent, Acting Director, Center for Systemic Analysis and Strategic Research, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Pál Tamás (Hungary), Ph.D., Head of Research Group, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences:
Hybrid mechanisms for geopolitical cooperation in the post-Soviet area (forecast for 2020).
Oleg Lushnikov (Russia), Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, RAS:
The place of the CEE countries in Russia’s foreign economic strategy.
Ilya Tarasov (Russia), D.Sc., Docent, Head of Department of Philosophy and Political Science, Saratov State Socio-Economic University:
Current issues of advocating Russia’s economic and political interests in CEE.
Vladimir Dergachev (Ukraine), Prof., D.Sc., Editor-in-Chief of the website Professor Dergachev’s Institute of Geopolitics; Chief Researcher, Institute for Market Problems and Economic and Ecological Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine:
Eastern Europe in a new global geopolitical architecture.
Vladimír Bačišin (Slovakia), Ph.D., Professor, Economic University, Bratislava; Gabriela Dovaleva (Slovakia), Ph.D., Institute of Economy, Slovakian Academy of Sciences:
International transport projects in Slovakia (the railway sector and oil transportation).
Break: 16.45–17.00
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SESSION 2 (continued)
17.00–18.30
Georgy Toloraya (Russia),D.Sc., Prof., Chief Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS, Regional Director for Asia and Africa, Russkiy Mir Foundation:
Russia in North East Asia: challenges and opportunities.
Aidyn Ibragimov (Turkey), D.Sc., Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Canakkale University;Selver Özözen-Kahraman (Turkey), Ph.D., Docent, Department of Geography, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Canakkale University;Vedat Çalışkan (Turkey),Ph.D., Docent, Department of Geography, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Canakkale University:
Turkey’s geopolitical activities: challenges and prospects.
Galina Belova (Russia),Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS:
Specifics of Russian-Chinese cooperation in the banking sector.
Natalya Sheludko (Ukraine),D.Sc., Senior Researcher, Head of the Department of Monetary Relations, Institute for Economics and Forecasting, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine:
Ukrainian and Russian financial markets: the aftermath of the crisis and prospects for integration.
Discussion
Buffet – 18.30
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Friday, October 29
Registration – 9.00
II. GLOBAL TRENDS IN REGIONAL INTEGRATION
AND RUSSIA’S EXPERIENCE IN ORGANIZING REGIONAL BLOCS
Opponents:
Leon Zevin (Russia),D.Sc., Prof., Chief Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS
Yury Knyazev (Russia), D.Sc., Prof., Chief Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS
SESSION 1
9.30–10.45
Moderator– Lidiya Kosikova (Russia), Ph.D., Leading Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS
Vladimir Sidenko (Ukraine), D.Sc., Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Chief Researcher, Institute for Economics and Forecasting, NASU:
Broader Eurasian economic space as a possible format for harmonizing regional integration policies.
Nikolay Kaveshnikov (Russia),Ph.D., Head of the Center for Political Integration, Institute of Europe, RAS:
Developing the institutional structure of the EurAsEC: how to employ the EU’s experience.
Stanislav Chernyavsky (Russia), D.Sc., Director, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute for International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University):
Russia, the EU, the CIS: opportunities and "points of connection" within this triangle.
Vladimir Matveev (Russia),Ph.D., Leading Researcher, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, RAS:
Challenges for the Shanghai cooperation organization related to the creation of the Common Economic Space in the post-Soviet area.
Discussion
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SESSION 2
10.45–12.00
Moderator– Leonid Vardomsky (Russia),
Prof., D.Sc., Head of the Centre for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economy, RAS
Valery Bondarenko (Belarus),Ph.D., Docent, Head of Department, Belarusian Trade and Economic University of Consumer Cooperatives:
Russia and Belarus: lessons of building a Union State.
Viktor Budkin (Ukraine), Prof., Dr. Sc., Chief Researcher, Institute of World Economy and International Relations NASU
Current issues in relations between Russia and Ukraine.
Igor Egorov (Ukraine),D.Sc., Head of the Center for Studying R&D Potential, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine:
Cooperation between Ukraine and Russia in developing high-technology industries: issues and prospects.
Svetlana Gribova (Russia), Ph.D., Leading Docent, Chita Institute, Baikal National University of Economics and Law:
Prospects for structural modernization of the cross-border regional economic cooperation in Russia’s Eastern regions.
Discussion
Coffee break: 12.00–12.15
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III. ECONOMIC INTERACTION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EU:
COOPERATION AND RIVALRY
Moderators: Natalya Kulikova (Russia),
Ph.D.,Head of the Centre for East European Studies, Institute of Economy, RAS;
Valentina Vasile (Romania), Professor, Scientific Deputy Director, Institute of National Economy, Romanian Academy of Sciences
Opponents:
Nadezhda Feit (Russia),Ph.D., Leading Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS
Irina Selivanova (Russia),Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS
SESSION 1
12.15 –13.45
Zsuzsanna Ludvig(Hungary),Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences:
The European Union, Russia and their common neighbourhood:
What prospects for Eastern Partnership?
Alexandra Shapovalova(Ukraine), Ph.D., Lecturer, Department of Foreign Policy and Diplomacy, Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine, MFA of Ukraine:
Russia and the EU in Eastern Europe: origins of rivalry and the ways to overcome it.
Elizaveta Gomoglasova (Russia),Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS:
Guidelines for cooperation between the European Union and post-Soviet countries: one format for all?
Vladimir Vaingort (Estonia), D.Sc., Editor, Taxes & Accounting; Member of the Board, Cardis Consulting Company:
The European choice of “Russian Estonia”.
Barbara Durka (Poland),Ph.D., Member of the Council, Polish-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry:
Processes of globalization and integration and relations between Poland and Russia: the impact of the crisis.
Discussion
Break: 13.45–14.45
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SESSION 2
14.45–16.30
Peter Baláž (Slovakia),Ph.D., Head of the Department of International Commerce, Faculty of Commerce, University of Economics in Bratislava:
Is energy security a geopolitical challenge or is it a strategic need for the EU-Russia partnership?
VladimírGonda (Slovakia),Ph.D., Prof., Vice Dean, University of Economics in Bratislava:
Interests of the EU and Russia in the energy sector: issues of cooperation.
Virginia Campeanu (Romania), Ph.D., Deputy Director, Institute of World Economy, Romanian Academy of Sciences;Iulia Mоnica Oehler-Sincai (Romania), Ph.D.,Researcher, Institute of World Economy, Romanian Academy of Sciences;Andreea Dragoi (Romania),Ph.D., Researcher, Institute of World Economy, Romanian Academy of Sciences:
Complementarities and potentials in trade between Romania and the Russian Federation.
Elena Kaštáková (Slovakia), Ph.D., Senior Lecturer,University of Economics in Bratislava:
Promoting trade and economic relations between Slovakia and Russia, their role in further transformation of the Slovakian economy.
Goran Buturac (Croatia), Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Economics, Zagreb; Željko Lovrinčević (Croatia), Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Economics, Zagreb;Davor Mikulić (Croatia), Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Economics, Zagreb:
Russian and Western Balkan economies in terms of global recession.
Han Lihua (China), Prof., Director, Center for China-Russia-CIS Relations,University for International Economic Relations and Trade:
The world economy during a post-crisis period: development trends.
Discussion
Break: 16.30–16.45
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IV. SOCIAL PROBLEMS UNDER GLOBALIZATION
16.45–18.30
Moderator:
Tatyana Chubarova (Russia),
Ph.D.,Head of the Centre for Economics of the Social Sector, Institute of Economy, RAS
Opponent:
Irina Soboleva (Russia), D. Sc., Head of theLaboratory for
Social and Labor Relations, Institute of Economy, RAS.
Lyudmila Degtyar (Russia),D.Sc., Prof., Chief Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS:
Financial and economic crisis and the future of the social state.
Tatyana Chubarova (Russia), Ph.D.,Head of the Centre for Economics of the Social Sector, Institute of Economy, RAS; Tatyana Sokolova (Russia), Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS:
Social policy under globalization: Russia and the world of today.
Valentina Vasile (Romania),Professor, Scientific Deputy Director, Institute of National Economy, Romanian Academy of Sciences; Cornel Ionescu (Romania),Professor, General Director at the Romanian Academy of Sciences:
Multipolar world configuration – a challenge for the pattern of labour force mobility.
GheorgheZaman (Romania),Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, Director, Institute of National Economy, Romanian Academy of Sciences:
Impact of brain drain in a multipolar world: Case of Central and Eastern Europe.
Elena Shestakova (Russia),Ph.D., Leading Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS:
Trends and methods of modernizing pension systems during the financial and economic crisis (based on CEE countries’ experience).
Margarita Strepetova (Russia), Ph.D., Leading Researcher, Institute of Economy, RAS:
Education and personnel training as an essential resource for integrating the post-Soviet space and organizing transformation processes in the “neighborhood belt” countries.
Final discussion
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Translated by Galina Peyu