On June 30, 2015, RIAC hosted roundtable "The Visegrad Europe and Russia Today" used for presentation of report "Russia and the Visegrad Group: the Ukrainian Challenge" authored by a team headed by Lyubov Shishelina, Head of East European Studies at RAS Institute for European Studies.
On June 30, 2015, RIAC hosted roundtable "The Visegrad Europe and Russia Today" used for presentation of report "Russia and the Visegrad Group: the Ukrainian Challenge" authored by a team headed by Lyubov Shishelina, Head of East European Studies at RAS Institute for European Studies.
The event was attended by Slovak Ambassador in Moscow Peter Priputen, Polish Ambassador Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz, Hungarian Ambassador Janos Balla, and Czech Ambassador Vladimir Remek, as well as several RIAC members, among them Academician Vladimir Baranovsky, Director of RAS Center for Situational Analysis; Rector of Russian State University for Humanities Efim Pivovar; Academician Vitaly Zhurkin, Honorary Director of RAS Institute for European Studies; as well as RIAC experts and staff.
Opening the roundtable, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov focused on the dynamic role of the Visegrad countries in the CEE policies of the European Union. Director of RAS Institute for European Studies Alexey Gromyko underlined the importance of the Visegrad Group for development of its member states and cooperation of Russia with Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Ambassador Priputen summed up the results of the Slovak presidency in the Visegrad Group.
Roundtable "The Visegrad Europe and Russia Today"
