IISEPS — Independent Institute of Socio-Economic and Politycal Studies

Public Association "The seventh side" (Vitebsk)
Group of Prof. O. Manaev (Minsk)

Project "Strengthening pro-"wide Europe" attitudes in Belarus"

Round table
"The EU and Russia's policies to Belarus"
May 26-27, 2006, Vitebsk

PROGRAM
May 26, 2006
9.30-9.40- Introduction - by Prof. O. Manaev (Minsk), O. Karach (Vitebsk)

PANEL I. "Belarus at the Crossroads of European and Russian Politics"
9.40-10.30 - "Europe regions. The European policy of the neighbourhood and Belarus: in searches "the motoring Map" - report by Ph.D. V. Pozdnyak (Minsk)
10.30-11.20 - "Belarus and Russia: tactical peripetias on a background of absence of strategy" - report by Ya. Romanchuk (Minsk)
11.20-11.40 - Coffee-break
11.40-12.30 - Discussion on a theme "Belarus on a crossroads of the European and Russian policy"
Moderator - O. Karach (Vitebsk)

PANEL II. "Attitude of the West and Russia to Belarus through Prism of Mass Media"
15.00-16.00 - "Presentation of the attitude of the EU and Russia to Belarus in the Russian and world mass-media" - report by P. Bykowsky (Minsk)
16.00-16.50 - "Western and Russian mass-media influence on Belarusians" - report by Prof. O. Manaev (Minsk)
16.50-17.10 - Coffee-break
17.10-18.30 - Discussion on a theme "The attitude of the West and Russia to Belarus through a prism of mass-media"
Moderator - Ph.D. A. Sasnow (Minsk)

May 27, 2006
PANEL III. "Civil and Cultural Relations of Belarus with Europe and Russia"
10.00-10.50 - "Belarus - to Europe through transformation of collective post-Soviet consciousness" - report by O. Karach (Vitebsk)
10.50-11.40 - "Vitebsk art school as a window of dialogue in the European историко-cultural heritage" - report by V. Kirillova (Vitebsk)
11.40-12.20 - Coffee-break
12.20-13.30 - Discussion on a theme "Civil and cultural aspects of mutual relation of Belarus with Europe and Russia"
13.30-13.40 - Round table summary
Moderator - Prof. O. Manaev (Minsk)

Number of participants - 30