
3 June 2019
May 31st-June 1st, the Baltic Forum took place in Jurmala. MGIMO Rector Anatoly Torkunov and the Vice-Rector for General Affairs Artem Malgin participated in the discussions.
The forum was kicked off by the President of the Institute of Contemporary Development, member of the European Dialogue Expert Group, Igor Jurgens, the President of the Baltic Forum, Yanis Urbanovich and the Head of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Russia, Peer Teschendorf.
Alexander Dynkin, President of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the First Deputy Director General of TASS Mikhail Gusman, the Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the Higher School of Economics Andrey Melville and the Head of the Kiev Center of Political Studies and Conflictology, Mikhail Pogrebinsky all participated in the conference.
The forum attracted researchers from Russian universities and think tanks including MGIMO, the Higher School of Economics, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Europe at the Russian Academy of Sciences, the European University at St. Petersburg, RANEPA, and researchers from Latvia, Lithuania, Great Britain, the USA, Germany and Hungary.
— See the MGIMO web-site for russian version