* Format of discussion panels: each of the offline speakers has up to 10 minutes to speak and up to 5 minutes to answer questions from guests, media and other participants
* Speed Debate format: Each of the offline speakers (participants of the debate round) has up to 3-5 minutes to express their own main thesis, as well as up to 3-5 minutes to answer questions and counter-theses from the rest of the speakers, participants of the debate round, and guests of the event
* All speeches and events(listed in the program) in London(12.10.23 British Summer Time (BST) and Paris(14.10.23 CET) local time
* Сhanges in the program are possible, including the time of speakers’ speeches
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* Our next event, – 9 Free Nations of PostRussia Forum, will be in Berlin and Rome in the first half of December 2023
8th FNP Forum, The Global Benefits of PostRussia, will take place in October 2023 in two cities:
Thursday October 12 – London(UK) and Saturday October 14 Paris (France).
The Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991 (stage two of the Russian Empire’s collapse that began in 1917) transformed into the 20th century’s biggest geopolitical asset.
Now, the question is how can we finalize collapse of the Russian Empire (as the “Russian Federation”) through controlled, non-violent decolonization to achieve the best outcomes for the entire civilized
world in the 21st century, and guarantee free, open societies and a new architecture of collective security?
Wednesday, October 11 PreForum FNP Evening
18:00 – 21:00 Time for informal individual communication of FNP Forum speakers with each other, media representatives, bloggers, and journalists (time for interviews)+ internal informal briefing for speakers(timing, plan, format, logistics etc) of the 8th FNP Forum in London
Thursday, October 12 Main Forum FNP Day I London 09:00-16:30
Location: University College London(UCL) School of Slavonic and East European Studies(SSEES)
16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
Working language: English
Online streaming: https://youtube.com/live/3Xc0LL5yJF8?feature=share
8:20-08:55 Registration and a morning coffee
*The dismantling of Europe’s empires has become an uncontroversial, even banal story. Both decolonization and de-imperialization brought benefits and advantages to all parties. If we draw upon the experiences of the past, we can minimize our risks now.
We have every opportunity to make the process as controlled and non-violent as possible.
09:00–10:30 Discussion Panel A
Lessons learned from mistakes made during the successful decolonization of other former colonial European empires (British, French, Dutch, Belgian and Portuguese) over the past 70 years, as well as the
case of Austria & Vienna(аfter the Austro-Hungarian Empire) and Turkey & Istanbul (after the Ottoman Empire) as possible references for the ex-metropolis (Zalesye Federation & Moscow)
09:00-09:15 Janusz Bugajski
Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC, author of “Failed State: A Guide to Russia’s Rupture”
09:15-09:30 Kamil Galeev
Rhodus Intelligence Founder
09:30-09:45 Gianni Vernetti
Former Senator and Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Italy
online 09:45-10:00 Korekiyo Takahashi
Representative Director of All Japan Karafuto Research Organization
10:00-10:15 Juraj Mesík
Independent global challenges and risks analyst, publicist, civil society activist, educator, and lecturer, affiliated with the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, author of six books
10:15-10:30 Jørn Sund-Henriksen
President Norwegian-Ukrainian Friendship Association
online 10:30-10:40 Vadim Shtepa
Chief editor of the Region Expert www.region.expert
*For centuries, Kremlin propaganda has justified military atrocities, repressions and acts of genocide (and now terrorist acts and the existence of a terrorist state) by stating that decolonization of Moscow’s empire would “somehow” create a “catastrophe”(sic!) in the world.
It’s time to realize these fears are absolutely groundless.
10:40-11:30 Public Debate A
Time “X”: how to accelerate complete decolonization through peaceful secession and independence of the states in post-Russia space. Are referendums necessary and if so, when? The devil is in the details: terms, formation, conditions, key questions.
1. Pavel Ivlev (Director Ingeri Maja Narva, Estonia)
2. Janusz Bugajski (Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC, author of “Failed State: A Guide to Russia’s Rupture”)
3. Ilya Ponomarev (Member of the Executive Council, Congress of People’s Deputies)
4. Taras Kuzio (Professor, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society)
11:30-12:40 Discussion Panel B
PostRussians new independent state’s investment potential: The global economy has not
encountered an opportunity like this since Deng Xiaoping’s “opening of the People’s Republic of China”
11:30-11:45 Pavel Ivlev
Director Ingeri Maja Narva, Estonia
11:45-12:00 Maria Ochir-Goryaeva
Oirad Kalmyk Congress, Free Nations League Member
12:00-12:15 Rafis Kashapov
Deputy Prime Minister of the independent Tatarstan government in exile, one of the Free Idel-Ural
movement co-founders
12:15-12:30 Günther Fehlinger
President у Austrian Committee for NATO Membership Austrian Committee for Ukraine, Austria, Kosovo, BiH, EU in NATO
online 12:30-12:40 Ahmed Zakayev & Liudmyla Buimister
Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria(Ahmed Zakayev) and Member of UA Parliament, Ukrainian Armed Forces officer, Member of NATO Parliamentary Assembly(Liudmyla Buimister)
12:40-13:10 Lunch
* Russia’s disintegration will help restrain the increasingly aggressive, unhealthy imperial ambitions of the PRC. Post-Russian independent states in northern and eastern Eurasia will seek cooperation and partnerships primarily with Tokyo, Washington, Seoul, Taipei, Astana, Ottawa, Ulaanbaatar, Canberra, Paris, London, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Ankara, Warsaw etc. but not authoritarian Beijing.
13:10-14:00 Public Debate B
How to preemptively stop the alliance of authoritarian and totalitarian states – the MBTP Axis (Moscow-Beijing-Tehran-Pyongyang) and their satellites (the regimes of Assad, Maduro, Lukshenko, Taliban, etc.) before they plunge the entire free world into the Third World War (and the first nuclear one)?
1. Gianni Vernetti(Former Senator and Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Italy)
2. Edward Lucas (British journalist and publicist, ex-correspondent of The Economist for Central and Eastern Europe)
3. Juraj Mesík (Independent global challenges and risks analyst, publicist, civil society activist, educator, and lecturer, affiliated with the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, author of six books)
4. Günther Fehlinger (President у Austrian Committee for NATO Membership Austrian Committee for Ukraine, Austria, Kosovo, BiH, EU in NATO)
*Decolonization of the “Russian Federation” as a key to reducing the global nuclear threat: all new independent states in post-Russian space will not need nuclear weapons.
14:00–15:55 Discussion Panel C
How to ensure and organize the full, 100% and rapid denuclearization of the post-Russian space and all its newly independent states?
14:00-14:15 Taras Kuzio
Professor, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society
14:15-14:30 Edward Lucas
British journalist and publicist, ex-correspondent of The Economist for Central and Eastern Europe
online 14:30-14:40 MEP Anna Fotyga
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland, 2006–2007, Head of the Chancellery of the President of Poland, 2007–2008, Member of the Polish Sejm, 7th convocation, Member of European Parliament from Poland, 6th and 8th convocations
14:40-14:55 Ilya Ponomarev
Member of the Executive Council, Congress of People’s Deputies
online 14:55-15:05 Paul Goble
Analyst, writer and columnist with expertise on Russia, long-time specialist on ethnic and religious questions in Eurasia
online 15:05-15:15 Nikita Andreev
Speaker of Sakha independence committee, Free Nations League member
online 15:15-15:25 Yaroslav Yurchyshyn
Member of Parliament of Ukraine and Head of its Temporary Special Commission on Development of Basic Principles of State Policy for Cooperation with National Movements of Small and Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Federation
15:25-15:40 Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian entrepreneur, blogger
online 15:40-15:50 Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
*There is a simple answer, – real win-win partnerships: global powers (NATO, the EU, the United Kingdom, France, the US, Japan, Germany, Italy, Bharat, Turkey, Poland, Israel, the UAE, Taiwan, Qatar, South Korea, Canada, Brazil, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Australia, etc.) and regional “mentor” neighbours with geographical proximity – from Norway to Japan, from Suomi to Kazakhstan, from Estonia to Mongolia, from Lithuania to Azerbaijan, from Poland to Turkey, from Latvia to Ukraine, from Sweden to Sakartvelo) should help captive nations and colonized regions not only to free themselves from Moscow’s imperial occupation, but also provide support for reconstruction and successful state-building among new neighbours (independent states of post-Russia space).
15:50–16:30 Public Debate C
Architects of the post-Russian space, – who exactly should it be? Is really “the future of Russia is in the hands of the Russians themselves”?
1. Maria Ochir-Goryaeva (Oirad Kalmyk Congress, Free Nations League Member)
2. Vitaly Ginzburg (Russian entrepreneur, blogger)
3. Rafis Kashapov (Deputy Prime Minister of the independent Tatarstan government in exile, one of the Free Idel-Ural movement co-founders)
4. Jørn Sund-Henriksen (President Norwegian-Ukrainian Friendship Association)
18:00-19:00 Ukraine’s Victory is Russia’s Liberation
Location: The event at the Henry Jackson Society will take place on the 20th floor of the Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London, SW1P 4QP. The event is one hour long and will start at 6pm sharp with the audiences watching both in the studio and online.
Moderator: Ulana Suprun, MD
Speakers: Janusz Bugajski (Senior Fellow, Jamestown Foundation, Washington DC, author of “Failed State: A Guide to Russia’s Rupture”), Taras Kuzio (Professor, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society), Ahmed Zakayev (Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria)
Friday, October 13 – Free & Road to Paris Day
Location: Hotel lobby
18:00 – 21:00 Time for informal individual communication of FNP Forum speakers with each other, media representatives, bloggers, and journalists (time for interviews) + internal informal briefing for speakers(timing, plan, format, logistics etc) of the 8th FNP Forum in Paris
Saturday, October 14 Main Forum FNP Day II Paris
Location: Auberge de jeunesse Yves Robert (20 Esplanade Nathalie Sarraute – 75018 Paris)
Working languages: French and English + some Russian
Online streaming: https://youtube.com/live/7LPfQM3tZik?feature=share
9:00-09:30 Registration and a morning coffee
*From the de-occupied Ukrainian Crimea in the West to the liberated Japanese Karafuto in the East, from independent Ichkeria, Kalmykia, Ingushetia, Cherkessia etc. in the South and to independent Ingria, Karelia, Komi, Sakha etc. in the North, with independent Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Chuvashia, Buryatia, Siberia and Ural in the heart of Eurasia, the world will become much safer, freer and more developed after the Russian Empire’s final decolonization.
09:30-11:15 Discussion Panel D
Examining de-imperialization as an opportunity for the development of diverse
cultures and languages and as a boon for residents of (ex)metropoles: benchmarks of France and Paris, the United Kingdom and London (+ USA, as a non-ethnic ex-colony), Spain and Latin America, the Netherlands, Denmark, etc.)
09:30-09:40 Maria Ochir-Goryaeva
Oirad Kalmyk Congress, Free Nations League Member
09:40-09:55 Alla Poédie
Geopolitical observer and analyst, editorialist for the TV channel LCI/TF1, specialist in the post-Soviet world, Honorary President of FUVI
09:55-10:10 Rainhard Kloucek
General Secretary of Paneuropa Austria
10:10-10:25 David Piguet
Ancien commandant dans l’armée Française ex Team Leader OSCE, Representative international DUK-PS
online 10:25-10:35 Oliver Loode
Director, URALIC Centre (Estonia), Member of the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM), Former member, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
10:35-10:50 Oleh Vitvitskyi
Executive director of the Anti-imperial Block of Nations
online 10:50-11:00 Jagannath Panda
Head of Stockholm Center for South Asian & Indo-Pacific Affairs, ISDP, Sweden, Senior Fellow Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
11:00-11:10 Günther Fehlinger
President Austrian Committee for NATO Membership Austrian Committee for Ukraine, Austria, Kosovo, BiH, EU in NATO
online 11:10-11:20 Ishii Hidetoshi
Vice President, Free Indo-Pacific Alliance, Japanese human rights activist
11:20-12:15 Public Debate D
War crimes, acts of genocide and terrorism – the war of 85% Russians or just “Putin’s war”? Fundamental essence and consequences of the imperial essence of Muscovia (including its current form of the so-called “Russian Federation”) or defects of individuals that can be quickly eliminated?
1. Yana Rudenko(Victim of russia’s war, Social Justice Activist)
2. Nicolas Ligneul (Attorney at law (Paris Bar), Admitted at International criminal Court)
3. Maksym Baryshnikov (Lawyer, co-founder of the Initiative Group of the Civic Hub “Kick russia out of the UN”)
4. Gianni Vernetti (Former Senator and Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Italy)
5. Yurii Shulipa (Honorary Consul of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Ukraine,
professor and director of the International Union «Institute of National Politics», jurist, political expert, writer)
6. Juraj Mesík (Independent global challenges and risks analyst, publicist, civil society activist, educator and lecturer, author of 6 books, Slovak Foreign Policy Association Affiliate)
7. Oleh Vitvitskyi (Executive director of the Anti-imperial Block of Nations)
8. Günther Fehlinger (President у Austrian Committee for NATO Membership Austrian Committee for Ukraine, Austria, Kosovo, BiH, EU in NATO)
9. Marijn Markus(AI Lead, Managing Data Scientist, Public Speaker)
12:15-14:00 Discussion Panel E *this panel discussion will be mostly in Russian
“Road Show” of the future independent states of the post-Russian space: сhallenges and opportunities for regional alignment(maximizing local and regional benefits of Decolonizing the Russian Federation for everyone)
12:15-12:30 Maxim Kuzakhmetov
Ingria Without Borders, editor
12:30-12:45 Ruslan Gabbasov
Head of the Bashkir National Political Center, member of the Free Nations League
online 12:45-12:55 Artem Tarasov
Pskov Republic, legal researcher, Master of Laws at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, member of the FDP party (Germany), Supervisor in a humanitarian aid camp for Ukrainian refugees in Germany
12:55-13:10 Stanislav Suslov
Vice-Chairman of the Committee of the Independent Confederation of Siberia
13:10-13:25 Vladimir Dovdanov
Deputy Chairman of the Congress of Oirat-Kalmyk people, Free Nations League Member
online 13:25-13:35 Vadim Petrov
Coordinator of the Baltic Republican Party, publisher of the digital newspaper Svobodny Königsberg
13:35-13:50 Murat Temirov
Representative of Circassia, Social and Media Consulting (SOMECON) Prague
13:50-14:05 Aleksey Baranowski
Representative of the Smolensk Republican Center
14:05-14:15 Sergey Antonov
co-chairman of the Freedom Movement “Free Udmurtia”
14:15-14:25 Juraj Mesík
Independent global challenges and risks analyst, publicist, civil society activist, educator and lecturer, author of 6 books, Slovak Foreign Policy Association Affiliate
14:25-14:30 Declaration from representatives of the Free Nations League
14:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 Public Debate E
Multiple statehood for “Russians”/”the Russian people”: an absolute condition for long-term peace and development, a desirable but not critical option, or a bad decision with many negative consequences?
1. Cemil Kerimoglu (Author and blogger with interest in Russia and Eastern Europe)
2. David Piguet(Ancien commandant dans l’armée Française ex Team Leader OSCE, Representative international DUK-PS)
3. Maxim Kuzakhmetov (Ingria Without Borders, editor)
4. Alla Poédie(Geopolitical observer and analyst, editorialist for the TV channel LCI/TF1, specialist in the post-Soviet world, Honorary President of FUVI)
5. Katia Margolis (artist, author, educator, activist)
6. Stanislav Suslov(Vice-Chairman of the Committee of the Independent Confederation of Siberia)
7. Andrius Almanis (President of the Institute of Russia’s Regions, Captain in reserve of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, member and a founder of the Lithuanian Republic Freedom Party)
8. Vitaly Ginzburg (Russian entrepreneur, blogger)
9. Rainhard Kloucek (General Secretary of Paneuropa Austria)
16:00-17:45 Discussion Panel F
Real win-win partnership: how create & turn post-Russian spaces into frontiers, not buffers(as a guarantee against revanchism and phantom imperial pains)?
16:00-16:15 Andrius Almanis
President of the Institute of Russia’s Regions, Captain in reserve of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, member and a founder of the Lithuanian Republic Freedom Party
16:15-16:25 Gianni Vernetti
Former Senator and Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Italy
16:25-16:35 Nicolas Ligneul
Attorney at law (Paris Bar), Admitted at International criminal Court
16:35-16:45 Cemil Kerimoglu
Author and blogger with interest in Russia and Eastern Europe
online 16:45-16:55 Elena Kustolainen
Free Ingria Movement Member
16:55-17:05 Yurii Shulipa
Honorary Consul of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Ukraine,
professor and director of the International Union «Institute of National Politics», jurist, political expert, writer
17:05-17:15 Nicolas Tenzer
Non-resident senior fellow Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Guest Professor Sciences Po Paris
online 17:15-17:25 Oleksii Goncharenko
Member of Parliament, Ukraine, Vice President, Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe
17:25-17:35 Maksym Baryshnikov
Lawyer, co-founder of the Initiative Group of the Civic Hub “Kick russia out of the UN”
online 17:35-17:45 Vadim Sidorov
PhD student of Charles University (Prague), Ambassador of the Eastern-Kryvian Platform
17:45-18:45 Public Debate F *this debate round will be mostly in Russian
Being “Russian” daily becomes more shameful and toxic: in addition to the return to the national roots of Russified nations (Tatars, Oirats, Buryats, Sakhas, Karels, Circassians, Bashkorts, etc.), there is the prospect
for renaissance of former ethnic identities (Merya, Erzya, Smolensk, Novgorod, etc.) and popularization of “new” regional and political national identities (Ingria, Siberia, Urals, Kuban, Pacific Region, etc.).
What are the pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages?
1. Murat Temirov (Representative of Circassia, Social and Media Consulting (SOMECON) Prague)
2. Vladimir Dovdanov (Deputy Chairman of the Congress of Oirat-Kalmyk people, Free Nations League Member)
3. Ruslan Gabbasov (Head of the Bashkir National Political Center, member of the Free Nations League)
4. Aleksey Baranowski (Representative of the Smolensk Republican Center)
5. Maria Ochir-Goryaeva (Oirad Kalmyk Congress, Free Nations League Member)
6. Sergey Antonov (co-chairman of the Freedom Movement “Free Udmurtia”)
7. Timkin Mikhail (Ideological group Brotherhood Northern)
8. Samyr Sakyiv (Activist, volunteer, blogger)
9. Nikolay Gorelov (journalist, enemy of the russian state, freethinker)
*Popular horror story of Moscow propaganda is that, without its “imperial eye and firm hand,” chaos and a “war of everyone against everyone” will break out among the new states.
Ideas of a “great” ethnic state that includes “all historical lands”, prone to confrontation, aren’t more optimal path to success than reasonable compromise with neighbours by creating compact, developed, people-centred independent political nations.
18:45–20:00 Discussion Panel E
Not one? PostRussian SpaseS(in the plural), – they are different and have nothing in common, except for the colonial past – the independent states of the northern Caucasus and the Pacific Coast, the European North, Siberia, and the Idel-Urals will go their own, different ways.
18:45-18:55 Oleg Dunda
MP of Ukraine
online 18:55-19:05 Nia Aytin
Activist of the Nogai national
online 19:05-19:11 Maryna Karlevits
Head of Caucasus Institute (Ukraine), political scientist, interpreter
19:11-19:18 Marijn Markus
AI Lead, Managing Data Scientist, Public Speaker
19:18-19:25 Yana Rudenko
Victim of russia’s war, Social Justice Activist
19:25-19:32 Nikolay Gorelov
Journalist, enemy of the russian state, freethinker
online 19:32-19:39 Tasha & PG
President of the Congress of Manchuria(Tasha) and Member of HongKong Nationls Association(PG)
19:39-19:46 Katia Margolis
Аrtist, author, educator, activist
19:46-19:53 Samyr Sakyiv
Activist, volunteer, blogger
online 19:53-20:00 Roman Sheremeta
Founding Rector of American University Kyiv, Professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University, Co-Chair of Ukrainian American House
Planned Summary of the 8th Free Nations Post-Russia Forum
A document, an agreement in the form of a memorandum- declaration(Zero Nuclear Weapons PostRussia Pact) on the automatic, complete and immediate renunciation of all nuclear weapons (and all other weapons mass destruction) by all future independent states of the post-Russian space.
Complete Denuclearization as a basic condition for their recognition, legitimization and future partnership in international relations.
More about Free Nations of PostRussia Forum platform:
Founded in Spring 2022, the Free Nations of PostRussia Forum is international community and public platform that unites leaders of the movements of captive nations and regions of the so-calles “Russian Federation” (which isn’t a real federation) with Lithuanians, Poles, British, Japanese, Czechs, Finns, Ukrainians, Georgians, Austrians, Belarusian, Turks, Germans, Kazakhs, Azerbaijanis, Americans etc with the aim of promoting peaceful, non-violent decolonization of the “Russian Federation.”
The platform engages in an anti-colonial national liberation struggle against the Moscow’s imperialism.
We have already held FNP Forums in Japan, the US, the EU Parliament, Sweden, the Czech Republic and Poland.
https://freenationsrf.org/
https://twitter.com/freenationsrf
https://www.instagram.com/forum_fnr/
https://www.youtube.com/@freepostrussia
www.linkedin.com/company/postrussianations
European Parliament: Debate, January 31, 2023, Brussels
6th Free Nations of PostRussia Forum: First Day of Speeches, April 25, 2023, Washington, DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGudtBo0AnM&t=2320s (Parliament of Japan, Tokyo)
6th Free Nations of PostRussia Forum: Debate Day, April 26, 2023, Washington, DC
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