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 Seminars and Conferences
Project of European Commission/TACIS/IISEPS
"Strengthening pro-"wide Europe" attitudes in Belarus"

"Belarus and "wide Europe": problems and perspectives"
Scientific and practical conference
February 22-23, 2007, Minsk

PROGRAM
February 22, 2007
9.20-9.40 - Opening remarks by:
Fried Nielsen, Deputy Head of German Embassy in the Republic of Belarus, Representative of EU Presidency,
Janis Aizsalnieks, Head of the TACIS Branch Office,
Prof. Oleg Manaev, Founder of IISEPS,
Dr. Astrid Sahm, German Director of IBB

PANEL I. "CHOICE OF PATH: GEOPOLITICAL GOALS"
9.40-10.05 - "Belarus and "wide Europe": choice for path" - by Prof. Oleg Manaev (Minsk)
10.05-10.30 - "Towards democratic Belarus via cooperation with Europe and Russia" - by Academician Alexander Voitovich (Minsk)
10.30-10.55 - "European strategy for Belarus: problems and perspectives" - by Ph.D. Yury Drakokhrust (Prague)
10.55-11.20 - "Future of Belarus: inside and outside "wider Europe" - by Sergey Kalyakin (Minsk)
11.20-11.40 - Coffee-break
11.40-12.05 - "European neighborhood policy and Belarus: problems and perspectives" - by Ph.D. Vyacheslav Pozdnyak (Minsk)
12.05-12.30 - "Widening Europe eastwards: experience for Belarus" - by Ph.D. Leonid Zaiko (Minsk)
12.30-13.40 -Discussion on presentations and problems of "Choice of Path: Geopolitical Goals"
Moderator - Janis Aizsalnieks (Minsk)

PANEL II. "CHOICE OF PATH: GEOPOLITICAL FRAMEWORKS"
15.00-15.25 - "Belarus-Russia: independence vs. economic interests" - by Prof. Stanislav Bogdankevich (Minsk)
15.25-15.50 - "Integration preferences of Belarusians: Eastwards or to Westwards?" - by Ph.D. Alyaksandr Sasnow (Minsk)
15.50-16.15 - "What is a path that leads to Europe? The problems of Euro-Atlantic integration for Belarus, Russia and Ukraine" - by Ph.D. Anatoly Lysiuk (Brest)
16.15-16.40 - "Religion as factor of Belarus geopolitical self-identification" - by Petr Rudkowsky (Vitebsk)
16.40-17.00 - Coffee-break
17.00-17.25 - "Belarus between Russia and EU: following third path?" - by Prof. Alexander Ostrowsky (Grodno)
17.25-18.30 - Discussion on presentations and problems of "Choice of Path: Geopolitical Frameworks"
Moderator - Prof. Oleg Manaev (Minsk)

February 23, 2007
PANEL III. "LEADING ACTORS OF BELARUS GEOPOLITICAL CHOICE"
9.30-9.55 - "The role of the state in socio-dynamics of pro-"wider Europe" choice in Belarus and Russia" - by Sergey Nikoliuk (Minsk)
9.55-10.20 - "The role of the state in the formation of geopolitical attitudes of Belarusians: regional peculiarities" - by Ph.D. Alexander Ageyev (Mogilev)
10.20-10.45 - "The role of business and entrepreneurs in geopolitical choice for Belarus" - by Vladimir Karyagin (Minsk)
10.45-11.10 - "The role of human rights structures in geopolitical choice for Belarus" - by Ph.D. Tatiana Protko (Minsk)
11.10-11.40 - Coffee-break
11.40-12.05 - "The role of regional civil society structures in strengthening pro-"wider Europe" attitudes in Belarus" - by Ph.D. Yury Voronezhtsev (Gomel)
12.05-12.30 - "Europe as the issue in the Belarusian media, and Belarus as the issue in world media" - by Pavel Bykowsky (Minsk)
12.30-13.40 - Discussion on presentations and problems of "Leading actors of Belarus geopolitical choice"
13.40-13.50 - Summing up the results of the conference
Moderator - Ph.D. Alyaksandr Sasnow (Minsk)
Number of Participants - 90

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