1 November 2011
„Euro Crisis – Crisis in Europe?“
Guests:
Werner Schulz (since July 2009 Member of the European Parliament, Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee EU-Russia) and Maxim Blant (economic journalist for Newsru.com).
Here you can download the executive summary of the expert commission’s report entitled “Solidarity and strength: The Future of the European Union” (in English).
This event took place in Russian and German.
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17 May 2011
"China and Russia - what perspectives for future relations?"
Guests:
Xu Qinhua (Associate Professor of School of International Studies at Renmin University of China) and Alexander G. Larin (Leading Expert at the Institute of the Far East at the Russian Academy of Science).
This event took place in Russian and English.
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5 April 2011
"From Chernobyl to Fukushima - What future for energy policy?"
Guests:
Stephen Thomas (Professor of energy policy at the University of Greenwich Business School, Co-author of "Myth of nuclear power - a guide") and Vladimir Milov (President of the Institute of Energy Policy and independent politician, formerly Deputy Minister for Energy of the Russian Federation).
Here you can download the presentation of Steve Thomas (in English).
This event took place in Russian and English.
Click here for a video transcript of the event on the website of the Sakharov-Center.
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1 March 2011
"Egypt’s new beginning– Perspectives for democracy and the peace process in the region"
Guests:
Georgy I. Mirsky (Expert on Islamic fundamentalism, Palestine, Arab-Israeli relations, international terrorism and countries of the Near East) and Sonja Zekri (Correspondent for Süddeutsche Zeitung in Moscow, reported from Egypt during unrests and has relatives there).
This event took place in Russian.
Click here for a video transcript of the event on the website of the Sakharov-Center.
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1 February 2011
“A Glance on Europe’s last
Dictatorship – Belarus after the “Elections“”
Guests:
Vladimir
Matskyevitch (Belorussian political scientist and member of
Eurobelarus), Marieluise Beck (Member of the German Bundestag,
spokesperson for policy towards Eastern Europe, Alliance 90/The
Greens Parliamentary Group) and Dmitri Makarov (Expert, Youth Human
Rights Movement)
This event took place in Russian and
German.
Click here for a video transcript of the event on the website of the Sakharov-Center.
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7 December 2010
"The Turkish-Russian rapprochement in a changing world order"
Speakers:
Ahmet O. Evin – Executive Member of the İstanbul Policy Centre and Dean at Faculty of Social Sciences at Sabanci University
Jürgen Trittin – Chairman of the Fraction of the Greens in the German Parliament
Click here for a video transcript of the event on the website of the Sakharov-Center.
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9 November 2010
"People on the Move –the case of the Roma and challenges for migration policy"
Speakers:
Stephania Kulaeva (Expert of the Anti-Discrimination Centre of Memorial St.Petersburg), Timur Khalilov (Vice-president of Inter-regional Public Organization “The Roma Cultural center of the North Caucasus”) and Darya Alekseeva (Lawyer at the European Roma Rights Centre in Budapest, via video stream).
Here you can download the presentation of Timur Khalilov (in Russian).
This event took place in Russian.
Click here for a video transcript of the event on the website of the Sakharov-Center.
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19 October 2010
"Russia, Pakistan, China, Eastern Europe and their summer of weather extremes – coincidence or man-made misfortune?"
Speakers:
Rasmus E. Benestad (researcher at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Oslo Climate Group) and Alexey Kokorin (head of the Climate and Energy Program at WWF Russia).
Here you can download the presentation and transcript of Rasmus E. Benestad (in English) and here the presentation by Alexey Kokorin (in Russian).
Click here for a video transcript of the event on the website of the Sakharov-Center.
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3 June 2010
"A step closer to a World without Nuclear Weapons? – Conclusions of the NPT Review 2010"
Speakers:
Oliver Meier is International Representative of Arms Control Association (ACA) and a researcher with the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg.
Leonid Ryabikhin is an expert of the Russian Science Committee for Global Security in arms control, non-proliferation, aviation, missile technology and ABM issues
Please see here for Oliver Meier's presentation (English).
Click here for a video transcript of the event on the website of the Sakharov-Center.
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13 May 2010
"What to do with Nuclear Waste? Perspectives on a Regulation in Russia and the World"
Speakers: Vladimir Slivyak (Ecodefense!) and Rianne Teule (Greenpeace International).
Here you can find the presentation by Rianne Teule.
Click here for a video transcript of the event on the website of the Sakharov-Center.
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6 April 2010
"Gender and government: perspectives on gender politics in Russia, Germany and Poland"
Speakers: Martina Ritter, Svetlana Aivasova and Kinga Dunin.
See our German or Russian website for more information on this event.
Click here for a video transcript of the event on the website of the Sakharov-Center.
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2 March 2010
"Ukraine has voted – but for what? The new government and perspectives on its relations to Russia and Europe"
Speakers: Victor Mizin and Andriy Yermolayev.
This event took place in Russian.
See here for a event report in German or Russian. Click here for a video transcript of the event on the website of the Sakharov-Center.
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1 February 2010
"How climate change affects international human rights: Impacts on people’s lives in Russia and abroad"
Speakers: Theodor Rathgeber (author of the publication "Climate Change Violates Human Rights" and Yana Dordina (director of the Batani Fund for Indigenous Peoples).
Here you find the presentations by Theodor Rathgeber and Yana Dordina.
Here you can find a report on the Jour-Fixe on the website of the Batani-Fund.
Click here for a video transcript of the event.
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3 December 2009
"The Climate Change – strategies for Copenhagen 2009 and beyond"
Speakers: Stefan Rahmstorf (Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, co-author, with Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, of the book “Der Klimawandel” (“The Climate Change”) and Alexey Kokorin (Head of Climate and Energy Programme at WWF Russia). See here for the presentation by Stefan Rahmstorf.
Please contact us if you would like to receive a copy of the Russian version of the book "The Climate Change".
Click here for a video transcript of the event.
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3 November 2009
"Nuclear disarmament"
Speakers: Ralf Fücks (Head of Heinrich-Böll-Foundation) and Major-General Vladimir Dvorkin (PIR-Center for Policy Studies in Russia).
This event took place in Russian and German.
Click here for a video transcript of the event.
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6 October 2009
"Run on the Arctic – Recommendations for the EU and Russia"
On 6th October 2009 the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation organized its first Jour-Fixe discussion series "Böll at Sakharov's" at the Sakharov Center.
Speakers: Roderick Kefferpütz (Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Brussels) and Elena Nikitina (Eco Policy: Research and Consulting, Moscow).
Please see here for Elena Nikitina's presentation (English/ Russian) and here for the paper presented by Roderick Kefferpütz.
Click here for a video transcript of the event.
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For more information on these events, please contact Irina Dettmann, Programme Officer International Dialogue at dettmann@boell.ru.
