The European Party Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR)
and the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO will hold
an international conference “Youth under Threat of Extremism
and Xenophobia. A Liberal Response” on Saturday, April 21.
The conference will be opened by Dr.Sergei Mitrokhin, Chair
of the YABLOKO party, Emil Kirjas, Secretary General of Liberal
International, Dr. Marc Guerrero, ELDR Vice President, Vladimir
Lukin, Russia’s Ombudsman and Dr. Astrid Thors, ELDR Vice
President.
The conference will consist of four panels. In the first
panel keynote reports will be made by Dr. Emil Pain, leading
expert of the xenophobia study and prevention of extremism
department, the Institute of Sociology, the Russian Academy
of Science, Alexander Verkhovsky, Director of the Sova information
and analysis centre, and Dr. Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO founder,
Member of Political Committee, professor the Higher School
of Economics.
The second panel will introduce experts from the UK, Sweden,
Norway, Finland and Russia - PACE members, MPs, politicians
and university professors. Robert Woodthorpe Browne, Bureau
member of Liberal International, and Chair of the International
Relations Committee of the Liberal Democrats, UK, Trine Skei
Grande, MP, Norwegian Parliament, leader of Venstre, Norway,
Dr.Galina Mikhalyova, Executive Secretary of YABLOKO’s Political
Committee, professor of the Russian State Humanities University,
Kerstin Lundgren, MP, Swedish Parliament, the Centre Party,
Deputy member of The Swedish Delegation to the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe, Sweden, Dr. Astrid Thors,
ELDR Vice President, Ivan Bolshakov, YABLOKO Federal Council
member, Chair of Youth Policies Commission and Dmitry Ilyushin,
expert of the Institute of the State and Municipal Governing,
National Research University “The Higher School of Economics”,
YABLOKO Federal Council member, will discuss the causes and
manifestations of xenophobia and extremism.
The third panel will introduce reports on the topic "Ways
of overcoming xenophobia and extremism" by experts from
Russia, Spain and Austria, namely: Dr. Marc Guerrero, ELDR
Vice President, CDC Catalonia, Spain, Angelika Mlinar, leader
of Liberales Forum, Austria,
Alexander Gnezdilov, Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of
YABLOKO, Deputy Chair of the Youth Chamber under the Moscow
City Parliament, Eugeny Bunimovich, Ombudsman for Children
in Moscow, Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, Andrei
Babushkin, Chair of Civic Rights Committee, and Vyacheslav
Glinchikov, Director of Children’s Recreation Centre Komanda.
At the participants of the conference should adopt a final
document with the working title "The liberal answer."
The conference will begin at 10:00.
Press briefing will take place at 12:30-12:50.
Accreditation by phone: (495) 780 30 19 or by mail press@mosyabloko.ru.
Venue: Hotel Marriott Tverskaya, 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya,
34, Moscow.
See also:
YABLOKO
Against Extremism
YABLOKO
and the International Liberal Family
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