Meeting Russia in Minsk
On October 7-8, 2019, an expert Minsk Dialogue Forum was held in the capital of Belarus. The Minsk Dialogue Forum provides a unique platform where relevant stakeholders can engage in discussions and seek on minimum standards of security. The event gathers high-profile representatives and leading experts from the EU, Russia, USA, China, East Europe and South Caucasus.
The event is organized by the Minsk Dialogue Council on Foreign Relations in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the GCRF Compass project, RAND Corporation, the Russian Academy of Sciences and others.
The event is organized by the Minsk Dialogue Council on Foreign Relations in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the GCRF Compass project, RAND Corporation, the Russian Academy of Sciences and others.
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On October 9th, as a partner of the Forum, PICREADI held a Meeting Russia Working Breakfast, which was dedicated to the Russia-West political dialogue crisis.
A day before the Working Breakfast, we met with the Meeting Russia alumni Zachary Paikin (MR 2017) and Reid Standish (MR 2019) who shared their expectations of the coming seminar on Russia-West political crisis and their own impressions of the Minsk Dialogue Forum.
A day before the Working Breakfast, we met with the Meeting Russia alumni Zachary Paikin (MR 2017) and Reid Standish (MR 2019) who shared their expectations of the coming seminar on Russia-West political crisis and their own impressions of the Minsk Dialogue Forum.
Meeting Russia Alumni Club on the Minsk Dialogue
- Reid StandishSpecial correspondent, Foreign PolicyToday the US Ambassador to Russia John Huntsman just published an article, and one of the things he called for was the importance of dialogue. He understands obviously the huge differences and also the fact that the results of the dialogues could not come very quickly. But it is important to talk, to establish relationships between people, and to have a deeper understanding of them, of their voids, of their characterizations of the situation. The idea is to be able to figure out good solutions by asking the right questions. So I think this is the value of bringing people together here, bringing all the diversity of political leaders, experts, journalists who have different sets of experience and different viewpoints. Finally, they can find a surprising overlap that exists in some places you don't find until you get together.
- Zachary PaikinResearcher, University of Kent; senior editor, Global BriefI am not able to attend tomorrow's session of MR, unfortunately, but I'm really excited you're organising this. It's fantastic to see you among the list of partners of the Minsk Dialogue Forum from which you've got here all the platform of organisations from both the East and the West. Sure it's gonna be a fantastic session and it would be a lot of learning experience for everyone!