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On April 14, an international Internet conference was held at the site of the Russian House in Nicosia. Participants from Great Britain, Spain, Egypt, Bulgaria, Greece and other countries took part in the discussion via a video conference.
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On the initiative of the Eurasian Dialogue, an international conference on food security in the Asia-Pacific region was held in Vladivostok on June 24, 2016 at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU).
The conference was devoted to the analysis of the existing situation in various aspects of food security in the Asia-Pacific region (mainly in its Western part) and the prospects for its sustainable development in the future, as well as Russia’s contribution to this process. The conference organizers presented to the participants the opportunities of the Far East and Siberia in terms of investment attractiveness in the field of agriculture and food production.
The Conference program included the holding of plenary sessions, panel discussions, round tables, and the organization of bilateral meetings to strengthen mutual understanding, find useful contacts and fresh ideas. The official language is English.
Representatives of relevant ministries of the Russian Federation, regional authorities, international organizations, business representatives, experts from China, Japan, South and North Korea, ASEAN countries, Australia, New Zealand, etc. took part – about 200 participants in total.
Russian Russian Language and Culture University Center in Mons hosted a marathon meeting with students studying Russian on June 6. The kind-hearted atmosphere encouraged lively communication, the audience listened with interest to the performances of the Marathon participants and asked a lot of questions on various topics.
The Marathon program in Mons was continued by the presentation of the Festival Marathon for officials and residents of the city. Also on this day, a meeting was held with representatives of the organizing committee of Mons — the Cultural Capital of Europe 2015
On May 29, a meeting was held with law school students from different countries in Hamburg, during which both legal and topical political issues were discussed. As part of the live dialogue, representatives of the younger generation exchanged opinions with experienced Russian politicians on some political situations and had the opportunity to ask their questions. At the beginning of his opening speech of the member of the Russian parliamentary European club, MEP Mr Knut Fleckenstein reminded the audience about the significant date — the 70th anniversary of the great victory and thanked Russia for the liberation of Germany and the world from fascism. He also noted the importance of holding a cultural marathon for the development of a single cultural space without dividing lines.
On the initiative of the Eurasian Dialogue at the Russian Parliamentary European Club, Kazan hosted the II Kazan Public Forum “Eurasian Integration: Achievements and Challenges”, which was a continuation of last year’s event with the same name. The event was organized by the Federal agency Rossotrudnichestvo and the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan. The interregional Fund for Political Initiatives and Technologies has traditionally been engaged in the program part. The PIT fund.
On the first day of the forum, 9 breakout discussions were held at the main venue in Kazan:
- “Creation of a common financial market in the Eurasian space”
- “Innovative infrastructure as a basis for the development of international cooperation”
- “The current state and prospects of Eurasian integration”
- “The Party dimension of Eurasian cooperation”
- “A new generation of citizens on the threshold of the Eurasian Economic Union and the role of non-profit organizations in Eurasian integration”
- “Institutional features of the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in modern integration processes”
- “The EAEU on the world stage – the interaction of the new union with international associations and third countries”
- “Social aspects of Eurasian integration – education, labor market, population mobility”
- “Issues of collective security of the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union in the new world”
On the second day, two plenary sessions were held, which were broadcast on the Internet. A special feature of the event, as well as most of the events held by the Eurasian Dialogue and the European Club, was video communication with remote locations in other countries.
The Forum discussed issues related to Eurasian integration and the results of preparatory work for the creation of The Eurasian Economic Union (the EAEU, we remind you, begins its activities on January 1, 2015). The Forum was almost the last such event aimed at summarizing the results.
The Forum was attended by representatives of various public circles and government authorities in Russia, Europe and Asia. In total, representatives of 15 countries took part in the forum.:
- Russia
- Belarus
- Kazakhstan
- Armenia
- Kyrgyzstan
- Tadjikistan
- Azerbaijan
- Mongolia
- Cambodia
- Vietnam
- China
- Türkiye
- Belgium
- Moldova
- Serbia
More than 400 people were registered at the main venue, and in total, more than a thousand people became participants, taking into account viewers in other countries and those who joined the preparation of the event at various stages.
In early June 2014, the trans-continental Internet conference “The Russian Language in the Dialogue of Cultures” (hereinafter referred to as the Conference) was held in Perm. The conference was held on the initiative of the Eurasian Dialogue at the Russian Parliamentary European Club with the support of the federal agency Rossotrudnichestvo, the government of the Perm Region, with the participation of the Russkiy Mir Foundation, the Russian Book Union and the Writers’ Union of Russia. The conference covered a vast geographical area from Antarctica (Russian was the first language heard in these places) to India, from Lisbon to Vladivostok.
Representatives of 17 countries of the world visited Perm directly. Scientists, writers, translators, politicians, public figures, journalists, artists and cultural figures, graduate students and students agreed that Russian rightfully occupies one of the leading places among the world languages and is an integral part of world culture, and also has indisputable potential as a language of international communication in the XXL century.
The conference took place at a significant time – the Russian Year of Culture, the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov, on the eve of Russia Day, as well as on the eve of the launch The first pan-European festival marathon.
At the end of November in Kazan, at the initiative of the Eurasian Dialogue, the federal agency Rossotrudnichestvo and the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan held a public forum on economic issues. The event was attended by Russian and foreign experts and politicians. In particular, Minister of the Eurasian Economic Commission Timur Suleimenov, Chairman of the State Duma of the sixth convocation Sergey Naryshkin, and Head of Rossotrudnichestvo spoke at the plenary sessions on the first and second days. Konstantin Kosachev, Senators Andrey Klimov, Oleg Kazakovtsev, Ilyas Umakhanov, Advisor to the President of Russia Sergey Glazyev, Vice-rector of MGIMO Alexey Podberezkin, Government Commissioner of Ukraine for Cooperation with the Russian Federation, States — Valery Muntiyan, Minister of Education of Armenia Armen Ashotyan and others participated in the CIS, EurAsEC and other regional associations.
The forum was a continuation of the international conference “Eurasian Union: Ambitions, Problems, Prospects”, held here in June 2012, but it was more ambitious, both in terms of the number of events held in Kazan itself and the availability of other venues. This time, the organizers included Minsk, Astana, Kiev, Beijing, Brussels, Moscow and St. Petersburg via video communication system. All discussions were also broadcast on the Internet on the websites of the organizers.
An international Internet conference was held in Perm at the end of May as part of the humanitarian forum of the same name. The central event of the conference was two plenary sessions (on May 30 and 31), which were held in the format of video bridges with remote locations in six dozen Eurasian countries — from Reykjavik to Jakarta. In addition to the participants at the main venue in Perm, where about 200 people from 20 countries gathered, about 1.5 thousand people from all over the Eurasian continent took part in the Internet conference.
Among the participants in Perm were O. I. Arshba, deputy of the State Duma of the VI convocation, Senators A. A. Klimov and I. M.-S.Umakhanov, Head of Rossotrudnichestvo K. I. Kosachev, the famous TV presenter S. B. Brilev, as well as specially invited foreign participants — Alexander Alexandrovich Pushkin and Maria Madeleine Durnovo-Pushkina (the last direct descendants of Alexander Pushkin) and Dmitry de Koshko (great-grandson of Perm Governor I. F. Koshko).
All participants discussed online the importance of developing the Russian language as a language of international communication that helps Eurasian integration. Anyone could follow the progress of the conference, as everything was broadcast online on the organizers’ websites. It is noteworthy that on the second day, Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Pavel Vinogradov got in touch with the participants directly from space — from the International Space Station, who noted that the first language spoken in space was Russian.
