On September 9, 2018, «Caucasus Dialogue – 2018» opened in Arkhyz (Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia). The event is organized by Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund and Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).
On September 9, 2018, «Caucasus Dialogue – 2018» opened in Arkhyz (Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Russia). The event is organized by Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund and Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).
Roman Grishenin, Deputy Executive Director of the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund; Ibrahim Gabeyev, Head of the Department for the Implementation of Public Projects of the Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus Federal District; and Zurab Kazanokov, Deputy Director of the North Caucasus Institute - RANEPA branch, made opening remarks.
Sergey Markedonov, RIAC Expert, Associate Professor, Department of Regional Studies and Foreign Policy, Russian State University for the Humanities, introduced the program.
The event is devoted to the Caucasus region development trends. The main issues of the discussion include geopolitics, economics and security in the Caucasus region, internal and foreign policy dynamics in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, major political and socio-political processes in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, etc.
Ruslan Mamedov, RIAC Program Assistant; Sergey Markedonov, RIAC Expert; Nikolay Silaev, RIAC Expert, Director of Caucasian Cooperation nonprofit partnership, Senior Research Fellow at the Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at MGIMO-University; and Elena Kuzmina, RIAC Expert, Head of the Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine sector, Post-Soviet Countries’ Economic Development Section at IMEMO RAS; represent RIAC at Caucasus Dialogue.
