Russia and Oceania:
New Challenges and Prospects
Date and time: 30 January 2024, 11:00-17:00
Venue: Indigo Hotel, 17, Tchaikovskogo st., Saint-Petersburg
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
DEDICATED TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ESTABLISHMENT OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE REPUBLIC OF FIJI
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Programme
30th of January 2024

Languages: Russian, English
11:00 – 12:00
Registration of participants
12:00 – 13:00
Opening of the conference, welcome speeches
Philipp G. Khanin, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Fiji in the North-West Region of the Russian Federation.

Alexander Khodachek, President, the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" in Saint Petersburg.

Vladimir Kuznetsov, Director, the UN Information Center in Moscow.

Government officials' welcome speeches.
13:00–14:00

Bilateral and Multilateral Co-operation of the Russian Federation and Oceania States

Scientific Diplomacy and Its Influence on the Development of Relations between the Russian Federation and the Countries of the South Seas
Nikolai Miklukho-Maklai, Head of Center for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania, The Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of South Pacific Research Association.

Climate and Small Island States
Representative of the UN Information Centre in Moscow.

Frank Bainimarama - "Father of the Nation"
Ekaterina Astafieva, PhD in History, Senior Researcher, Scientific Secretary, Center for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Russia and New Zealand: Past, Present and Future
Mikhail Lysenko, Deputy Head, International Law Department of MGIMO University, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to New Zealand (2004-2008).

Moderator: Konstantin Khudoley, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Member of the Russian International Affairs Council, Head of Department of European Studies, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University.
14:00 – 14:30
Coffee-break
14:30–15:30

Prospects for Trade and Economic Co-operation between the Russian Federation and Oceania States

Welcome address
Ekaterina Lebedeva, Vice-President, Union "St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry".

Technology, Innovation and Economic Growth: a Multidimensional View of Co-operation between Russia and the Republic of Fiji
Artem Garin, PhD in History, Research associate, Center for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania, The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Russia and Oceania: Potential for Co-operation
Natalia Markushina, Doctor in Politics, Professor, Department of World Politics, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University.

Moderator: Liudmila Veselova, PhD in History, Associate Professor of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" in Saint Petersburg, Programme Academic Supervisor of the "Business and Politics in Modern Asia", "International Business in the Asia-Pacific Region" master's programmes
15:30–16:30

Co-operation in the Humanitarian Sphere between the Russian Federation and Oceania States

Oceania Expeditions in 2012, 2013, 2017
Arina Lebedeva, PhD in History, Research associate, Department of Australia, Oceania and Indonesia, Kunstkamera.

Formation of Perceptions of the Fiji Islands among Soviet People in the 1960s-1980s
Alexey Antoshin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, Ural Federal University.

Painter Pavel Mikhailov – Participant of the Round-the-World Expedition of Faddey Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev in 1819-1821
Natalia Solomatina, Head, Drawing Sector of the 13th - beginning of the 20th centuries, The State Russian Museum.

Russian-Fijian Rugby Ties
Sergey Markov, Sports Director, the Russian Rugby Federation.

Мoderator: Philipp G. Khanin, The Honorary Consul of the Republic of Fiji in the North-West region of the Russian Federation.
Venue
Organizers of the conference
191167, Russia, Saint Petersburg. Sinopskaya embankment, house 30-B, office 2
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Contacts
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