Кавказ-2015. Международная конференция в Ереване

“Caucasus-2015”

International Conference

Erebuni Hall, Erebuni Plaza, Yerevan

30-31May, 2016

Day 1

09:00 – 09:30

Registration of Participants

09:30– 09:45

Opening and Welcome Speeches

Alexander Iskandaryan, Director, Caucasus Institute, Yerevan

Lukas Gasser, Ambassador of Switzerland to Armenia

Panel 1:Main Trends in theCaucasus in 2015

Chair: Sergey Minasyan

09:45– 10:15

Georgia in 2015

Georgi Kanashvili, Executive Director, Caucasian House, Tbilisi 

10:15– 10:45

Armenia in 2015

Alexander Iskandaryan, Director, Caucasus Institute, Yerevan 

10:45– 11:15

Azerbaijan in 2015

Sergey Markedonov, Professor, Russian Institute of Humanitarian Studies, Moscow                   

11:15– 11:45

11:45 – 12:00

Discussion

Coffee break

Panel 2:Northern Caucasus,Regional Securityand De-Facto Entities of

the South Caucasus in 2015

Chair: Sergey Markedonov

12:00– 12:30

Regional Security Issues in the South Caucasus in 2015

Sergey Minasyan, Deputy Director, Caucasus Institute, Yerevan

12:30– 13:00

De-facto Entities of the South Caucasus in 2015

David Petrosyan, Freelance Journalist, Yerevan

13:00– 13:30

Northern Caucasus in 2015

				Akhmet Yarlykapov, Senior Fellow, Center of Ethno-Political Studies, 
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

13:30– 14:00

14:00 – 15:00

Discussion

Lunch

Panel 3:Regional and External Actors’ Policyin the Caucasus in 2015

Chair: Alexander Iskandaryan

15:00 – 15:30

Western Policy in the South Caucasus in 2015

Laurence Broers, Associate Fellow, Chatham House Russia and Eurasia Programme and Editor-in-chief of the Caucasus Survey Journal, London

15:30 – 16:00

Russia and the South Caucasus in 2015

Alexander Krylov, Lead Researcher, Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

16:00 – 16:30

16:30 – 17:30

Turkey and South Caucasus in 2015

Cengiz Aktar, Professor of Political Science at Süleyman Şah University, Istanbul

General Discussion

10:00 – 12:00

Day 2

Roundtable on “Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Recent Military and Political Trends and Diplomatic Prospects”

Chair: Alexander Iskandaryan

Roundtable Discussion