07:30 PM

Welcome cocktail  at the hotel Renaissance (7^th floor)

09:30 – 10:00 AM

Registration

10:00 – 10:20 AM

Welcome addresses

10:20 – 12:00 AM

 Discussion  Political and security situation in the Wider Black Sea area

·         Yevgenij Kozhokin, Director, Russia’s Institute for Strategic Studies, Moscow

·         James Sherr, Director, Eurasia and Russia Program, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London

·         Valery Chaly, Deputy Director General, Ukrainian Center for Economic and Political Studies (Razumkov Centre), Kyiv

·         Andrej Fedorov, Director, Centre for Political Research and Consulting, Moscow

·         Sergey Konoplev, Program Director, Black Sea Security Program, Harvard University (USA)

12:00 – 12:30 PM

Coffee - break

12:30 – 02:30 PM

Discussion The role of the EU and international organizations to provide the security stability in the Wider Black Sea area

·         Urban Ahlin, Vice Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, Riksdagen (Parliament) of Sweden, Stockholm

·         Jaroslaw Bratkiewicz, Deputy Director, Department for Strategy and Foreign Policy Planning, MFA of the Republic of Poland, Warsaw

·         Fraser Cameron, Director, EU-Russia Centre,Brussels

·         Andrej Zagorski, Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations

02:30 – 03:30 PM

Lunch

03:30 – 05:30 PM

Discussion  New security platform initiative and prospects of regional security environment

·         Rainer Lindner, Senior Research Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin

·         Suat Kinklioglu, Member of National Assembly (Parliament) of the Republic of Turkey, Spokesman of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, Ankara

·         Sergei Markedonov, Head of the Inter-ethnic relations department, the Institute for Political and Military Analysis, Moscow

·         Carolina Vendlin Pallin, Researcher, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm

06:00 PM

Reception