The Gaidar Forum 2017. The Fortieth Anniversary of the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations

The Fortieth Anniversary of the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations between Spain and Russia (1977-2017)
Expert Discussion
Moderators: Igor Ivanov, President, Russian International Affairs Council; Igor Bartsits, Director, Institute of Public Administration and Civil Service, RANEPA.
Keynote report: Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, Chairman, Executive Committee, Elcano Royal Institute; Member, Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, Kingdom of Spain; Member, European Academy of Arts.

Participants: Pedro Agramunt Font de Mora, President, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; Alexey Meshkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Javier Ruperez Rubio, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Spain to NATO (1982–1983); Consul General to the US Midwest, Kingdom of Spain (2007-2011); Executive Director, CounterTerrorism Executive Directorate, United Nations (2004-2007).
Experts: Ignacio García-Valdecasas, Charge d'Affaires ad Interim of the Kingdom of Spain in the Russian Federation; Alvaro de la Riva, Counsellor, Embassy of Spain in Moscow; José Aurelio Llaneza Villanueva, Attaché for Education, Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in the Russian Federation; Veniamin Kaganov, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation; Dmitry Guzhelya, Deputy Head, Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and for International Humanitarian Cooperation; Juan Romero González, Professor, Interuniversity Institute for Local Development and Department of Geography, University of Valencia; Alexander Orlov, Director, Institute of International Studies, MGIMO; Elena Panina, Member, Foreign Affairs Committee, State Duma; Olga Pirozhenko, Director, Russian-Spanish Education and Cooperation Center, RANEPA; Irina Prokhorenko, Leading Research Fellow, IMEMO, Russian Academy of Sciences.