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Anti-imperial Block of Nations

The Jamestown Foundation
1310 L St NW, First Floor Conference Room,
Washington, DC 20005

APRIL
TUESDAY
16
9:00 am
Registration
9:15 am – 9:25 am
Opening Remarks
Peter Mattis, President, Jamestown Foundation
9:25 am – 9:40 am
Keynote Address
Anna Fotyga, Member of the European Parliament, former Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Poland
MORNING SESSIONS:
Contours of Emerging States in Post-Russia
9:40 am – 10:40 am
PANEL 1: Captive Nations and Captive Regions
Moderator: Margarita Assenova, Jamestown Foundation
• Paul Goble, Jamestown Foundation (online)
• Aset Sabdulaeva, Government of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
• Nikita Andreev, Sakha Independence Movement
• Marina Khankhalaeva, Buryat Independence Movement “Tusgaar Buryad
Mongolia,” Free Nations League
• Shamil Albakov, Committee for North Caucasus Nations
• Vasilina Orlova, Anthropologist, University of Texas (online)
• Batyr Boromangnaev, Congress of Oirat-Kalmyk people, Free Nations League
10:40 am – 11:40 am
Panel 2: Captive Nations and Captive Regions (Cont.)
Moderator: Taras Byk, Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum
• Radjana Dugar-DePonte, Committee for Buryat Independence, Free Nations League
• Yury Terekhov, Political Analyst and Media Manager (online)
• Artem Medvedev, Udmurtian philanthropist
• Viacheslav Afanasev, Ural Republic Association
• Denis Ugriumov, Free Ingria Movement
• Rustam Vasilev, Baltic Republican Party
11:45 am – 1:00 pm
Panel 3: Impact on Russia’s Neighbors
Moderator: Milda Mataciunaite-Boyce, Victims of Communism Foundation
• Janusz Bugajski, Jamestown Foundation
• Walter Zarytskyj, Center for US-Ukrainian Relations
• Marcin Jerzewski, European Values Center for Security Policy (online)
• Brian Glyn Williams, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• Fatima Tlis, Voice of America Polygraph
• Kazuhiro Ito, All Japan Karafuto Research Organization (video address)
• Kennedy Lee, Independent Researcher
• Tasha Baiin, Movement for Independence of Manchuria (online)
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm
Luncheon Discussion with Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, Oleg Dunda and Liudmyla Buimister
Members of the Ukrainian Parliament
Afternoon Sessions:
Western Policy and the Scenarios of a Failed Russian State
2:15 pm – 3:30 pm
Panel 4: The European Perspective
Moderator: Joseph Bebel, Jamestown Foundation
• Anders Aslund, Center for Social and Economic Research
• Pavel Ivlev, Ingeri Maja, Narva, Estonia
• Gianni Vernetti, Former Senator & Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Italy (online)
• Oliver Loode, URALIC Centre, Estonia
• Juraj Mesík, Slovak Foreign Policy Association (online)
• Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian entrepreneur, blogger
• Günther Fehlinger, President, Austrian Committee for NATO Membership (online)
• Sergej Sumlenny, European Resilience Initiative Center (online)
3:30 – 4:45 pm
Panel 5: American Perspective on the Future of Russia and its Anti-Western Alliances
Moderator: Debra Cagan, Atlantic Council
• Peter Mattis, President, Jamestown Foundation
• Ambassador (ret.) William Taylor, Vice President, USIP
• Ambassador (ret.) John Herbst, Atlantic Council
• Ambassador (ret.) William Courtney, RAND Corporation
• Luke Coffey, Hudson Institute
4:45 – 5:00 pm
Conclusions: Oleg Magaletsky, Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum
Notes:
• All times are listed in Eastern Daylight Time
Accreditation for media & guests, as well as general information and
questions may be addressed to freenationsrf.org@gmail.com
and pubs@jamestown.org
Program agenda subject to change.

It is also expected that the Head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Banderites), President of the Anti-Imperial Block of Nations, Oleh Medunytsya, will take part in the Forum.

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