December 2, Thursday
10-00 Opening of the Forum. Greetings from Garry Kasparov
10-10 – 11-30
Panel discussion: Global Outcomes of 2021
Speakers: Vladislav Inozemtsev – economist, publicist; Мaria Snegovaya – Postdoctoral Fellow at Virginia Polytechnic; Research Fellow at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University; Elena Lukyanova – Doctor of Law, Professor at the Free University; Mantas Adomėnas – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania; Konstantin von Eggert – journalist, publicist, political commentator
Moderator: Alexander Morozov – Research Fellow at Charles University (Prague), iSANS expert
11-30 – 13-00
Panel discussion: The Last Dictators of Europe: Lessons from Civil Resistance in Russia and Belarus
Speakers: Gennady Gudkov – politician, State Duma member in 2001-2012; Mikhail Svetov – libertarian, chairman of the Civil Society movement, political scientist; Alina Vitukhnovskaya (online) – writer, politician; Natalia Radina – journalist, editor-in-chief of the independent portal Charter’97 (Belarus); Denis Bilunov – PhD at the Faculty of Sociology, Charles University, Prague
Moderator: Ivan Tyutrin – politician, co-founder of the Free Russia Forum
13-00 – 14-00 Lunch
14-00 – 15-30
Panel discussion: Russian economy: ineffective and invulnerable
Speakers: Evgeny Chichvarkin – businessman, Sergei Guriev (online) – Professor of Economics, Sciences Po, Paris; Sergei Aleksashenko – economist, Ilya Ponomarev – politician, member of the State Duma in 2007 – 2016
Moderator: Vladislav Inozemtsev – economist, publicist
15-30 – 17-00
Panel discussion: Putin’s Russia: an Eternal Endgame
Participants: Mikhail Shishkin – writer, Garry Kasparov -politician, chairman of the Council of the Human Rights Foundation, Dmitry Bykov – writer, poet, publicist (online).
Host: Marat Guelman – publicist, art manager
17-00 – 17-30 Coffee break
17-30 – 18-45
Panel discussion: Opposition in Emigration: From Words to Action
Speakers: Igor Eidman – sociologist, publicist, chairman of the Forum of Russian-speaking Europeans (Berlin); Sergei Erofeev – Research Professor at Rutgers University, USA and Senior Research Fellow at the Polish Institute for Advanced Study; Anton Litvin – Director of the Festival of Contemporary Culture and Human Rights KULTURUS (Czech Republic); Alina Winter – journalist (Lithuania); Yuri Terekhov – Project Coordinator of the Free Russia Forum (Lithuania);
Moderator: Pavel Ivlev – lawyer, executive director of KRES Polishkola (USA)
December 3, Friday
9-00 – 10-15
Panel discussion: National or multinational Russia – self-determination of Russians and other peoples of the Russian Federation
Speakers: Ruslan Gabbasov – former leader of the Bashkort movement banned in Russia; Sergey Elfimov – co-leader of the Komi national movement “Dor’yam asnymöc / Protect ourselves”; Daniil Konstantinov – politician, head of the Russian European Movement (Lithuania), member of the Standing Committee of the Free Russia Forum; Mikhail Pulin – co-chairman of the Popular Resistance Association; Vadim Shtepa – editor-in-chief of the Region.Expert webzine.
Moderator: Vadim Sidorov – coordinator of the platform “Self-determination of the peoples of Russia”
10-15 – 11-30
Panel discussion: Putin’s war with history: an alternative reality from the Middle Ages to the present day
Speakers: Yuri Pivovarov – historian, Ph.D.; Igor Chubais – Ph.D., Russian scholar, publicist; Ivan Preobrazhensky – political scientist, publicist; Grigory Amnuel – theater director, journalist, public figure; Dmitry Savvin – writer, publicist, editor-in-chief of the “Harbin” webzine
Moderator: Daniil Konstantinov – politician, head of the Russian European Movement (Lithuania), member of the Standing Committee of the Free Russia Forum
11-30 – 12-00 Coffee break
12-00 – 13-30
Panel discussion: Global Alliance of Democracies: Challenges and Prospects
Speakers: Andrius Kubilius – Member of the European Parliament, Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1999-2000 and 2008-2012; Alfred Koch – publicist, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation in 1997; Alexander Morozov – Research Fellow at Charles University (Prague), iSANS expert; Taras Berezovets – political scientist, journalist (Ukraine); Tom Palmer – Vice President for International Programs at the Atlas Network, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute (Washington, DC)
Moderator: Peter Zalmaev – journalist, political scientist
13-30 – 15-00
Panel discussion: The second front: new forms of hybrid aggression of dictatorships
Speakers: Anton Shekhovtsov – political scientist, chairman of the Center for Democratic Integrity, University of Vienna; Marina Litvinenko – co-author of the book Death of a Dissident, founder of the Litvinenko Justice Foundation; Anastasia Kirilenko – journalist for The Insider; Cecile Vaissie – professor at the University of Rennes (France), political scientist, a specialist on Russia and the USSR; Evgeny Kiselev – journalist and TV presenter
Moderator: Boris Reitschuster – journalist, political commentator (Germany)
15-00 – 16-00 Lunch
16-00 – 17-30
Panel discussion: The limits of compromise – the experience of peoples and dictatorships
Speakers: Viktor Shenderovich (online) – journalist, publicist; Arkady Babchenko – publicist; Leonid Gozman – politician, psychologist; Olga Romanova – Director of the Sitting Russia Foundation for Aid to Prisoners and Their Families; Tomas Venclova – Lithuanian poet, writer and publicist
Moderator: Evgenia Chirikova – coordinator of the portal Activatica.org
17-30 – 19-00
Discussion: Can Russia get rid of the curse of the dictatorship
Participants: Mikhail Khodorkovsky (online); Garry Kasparov
Closing of the 11th Forum of Free Russia
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