Conference organized by

 

the Center for European and International Affairs of the cceia of Nicosia

 

in cooperation with

 

the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cyprus

 

 

EU-RUSSIA RELATIONS: THE RHETORIC AND THE RECORD

 

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

15:30

 UNESCO Amphitheater, Europa Building, cceia of Nicosia

 

Sponsored by

 

 

 

15:30 – 15:45  Registration

 

Opening Addresses:

15:45 – 16:25

Andreas Theophanous

President, Center for European and International Affairs, cceia of Nicosia

 

Ambassador Georgiy L. Muradov

Deputy Head of the Federal Agency For the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation

(Rossotrudnichestvo)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

 

Stefanos Stefanou

Spokesman of the Government of the Republic of Cyprus

 

Victor Kislyi

Chief Executive Officer, Wargaming.Net

 

 

Keynote Address:

16:25 – 16:55         

 

                      Sir Basil Markesinis QC

Fellow of the British Academy

Russia and the EU: The Inevitable Rapprochement

 

 

16:55 – 17:10  Coffee Break

 

 

 

I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Chair:  Andreas Theophanous

 

17:10 – 17:30        

                      Shlomo Avineri

Professor of Political Science, Hebrew cceia of Jerusalem, Former Director-General of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

Geopolitics, Ideology, Politics

 

17:30 – 17:50         

                      Manos Karagiannis

Visiting Assistant Professor, cceia of Cyprus

EU, NATO and Russia: Before and After the Cold War

 

17:50 – 18:10  Discussion

 

18:10 – 18:30  Coffee Break

 

 

II. EU AND RUSSIA: PARTNERSHIP OR ANTAGONISTIC RELATIONS?

Chair:  Andreas Theophanous

 

18:30 – 18:50         

                      Michael Emerson

Associate Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Former Ambassador of the EU to Russia

EU and Russia: Prospects for Convergence

 

18:50 – 19:10         

                      Nadia Arbatova

Head, Department of European Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences

Russia and EU in the Post Bipolar Polycentric World

 

19:10 – 19:50  Discussion and Final Remarks

 

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