"20 Years and Onward -- Post-Soviet Russian Politics:
Ideologies, State Systems, and World Strategies"

December 15th (Thursday)
10:00 - 10:20 Registration

10:20 - 11:00 Opening Address
Wan-Suk Hong (Director, Institute of Russian Studies, HUFS)

Welcoming Speech Chul Park (President, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)

Tae Woo Kim (President, Korea Institute for National Unification)

Konstantin Vnukov (Ambassador, Embassy of the Russian Federation in Republic of Korea)

11:10 - 11:50 Keynote Speech
Richard Sakwa (Kent University, UK)
Has Russia Become a Revisionist Power?

13:00 – 15:20 Session 1
20 Years Since the Collapse of Soviet Union and the Birth of New Russia: Historical
Meaning and Political Procedure

Chair Seok Hwan Kim (Jusung University, Korea)

Presentation
Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University, USA)
The Collapse of the Soviet Union and Twenty Years of Post-Soviet Political Transition

Andrey Melville (Higher School of Economics, Russia)
Russia’s Post-Communism Transformation in a Comparative Perspective

Richard Sakwa (Kent University, UK)
From Yeltsin to Medvedev: Overcoming the Dual State

Discussants Gu Ho Eom (Hanyang University, Korea)
Beom-Shik Shin (Seoul National University, Korea)
Taehwan Kim (Korea Foundation, Korea)

15:30 - 17:50 Session 2:
The World Strategy and the Foreign Policy of Post-Soviet Russia

Chair Alexander Nikitin (MGIMO)
Presentation
Marcel de Haas (Netherlands Defense Academy)
Progress of Russian Foreign Policy: From Gorbachev to Medvedev

Nikita Lomagin (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
Russia's CIS Policy and Political Transformations in Eurasia

Anatoly Kulikov (Defense Ministry of Russian Federation, Russia)
Results and Lessons of the Russian Policy in Northern & Southern Caucasus in the 1990s – 2000s

Discussants
Bong-Gu Kang (Hanyang University, Korea)
Byeong Ho Kim (Maeil Business Newspaper, Korea)
Kyong-wook Shim (Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, Korea)

December 16th (Friday)
09:30 - 12:00 Session 3
Geopolitical Meaning of Asia-Pacific Region and Russia’s Strategy in Post-Cold War Period

Chair Wan-Suk Hong (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea)

Presentation
Alexander Nikitin (MGIMO, Russia)
Ideological Dilemmas of Russian Foreign Policy

Shaolei Feng (East China Normal University, China)
The New Triangle of the Post-Cold War Era: the U.S., China, and Russia

Sung Hoon Jeh (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea)
Geopolitical Situations in Post-Cold War & Changes in Russian Foreign Policy: East Asia and the Korean Peninsula

Discussants
In-Kon Yeo (Korea Institute for National Unification, Korea)
Jae-Nam Ko (Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Korea)
Nikita Lomagin (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)

13:00 - 15:20 Session 4
20 Years in Transition: Russia’s Political System and Power Structure

Chair Andrey Melville (Higher School of Economics, Russia)

Presentation Sergey Oznobishchev (IMEMO, Russia)
Russia in Search of its Identity

Shimotomai Nobuo (Hosei University, Japan)
Dual-Power System between Putin and Medvedev in Russia

Oksana Gaman-Golutvina (MGIMO, Russia)
Tendencies in Power Structure and Political Elites in Post-Soviet Russia

Discussnats
Soo-Heon Park (Kyung Hee University, Korea)
Duckjoon Chang (Kookmin University, Korea)
Dong Joo Suh (Institute for National Security Strategy, Korea)

15:30-17:50 Session 5
2011-2012 Election Cycle and Russia’s Political Space

Chair Chung Hee Lee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea)

Presentation
Nikolay Petrov (Carnegie Center Moscow, Russia)
The Election of 2011-2012 and Russia's Power Structure:
Conservative or Innovative?

Se Ho Jang (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea)
The Return of Putin and the Future of Democracy in Russia

Discussants
Seok Hwan Kim (Jusung University, Korea)
Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University)

17:50 - 18:00 Closing Address