Date:
Sunday, October 1, 1995 - 13:00 - Monday, October 9, 1995 - 17:00
The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies
COMPLETED ITINERARY OF THE VISIT TO MOSCOW BY DR MICHAEL STENTON, DIRECTOR OF STUDIES, AND DR SRDJA TRIFKOVIC, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, 1-9 OCTOBER 1995.
Sunday, 1 October: Arrival from London to Moscow (BA874)
Monday, 2 October: Background briefings and informal meetings with Moscow-based foreign diplomats, journalists and businessmen; evening free
Tuesday, 3 October 10:30 International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies ("Gorbachev Foundation"). Meeting with experts in the field of former Yugoslavia and European security, Professor Alexander Galkin and Dr Nikolai P. Kolikov
14:00 Lunch with Moscow-based foreign diplomats, businessmen and correspondents
16:00 Informal meetings with foreign policy analysts and commentators
Wednesday, 4 October
11:00-13:00 Russia's State Institute for Strategic Studies. Round-table discussion with experts on Balkan affairs and European security, heads of departments Sergei F. Belov, Anatoly A. Trynkov, and their associates
14:00 Lunch with Moscow-based foreign businessmen and correspondents
15:00 Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation. Meeting with Evgeniy K. Silin, Coordinating Director
17:00 Moscow Lomonosov State University (MGU). Meeting with Professors Yelena Gusskova and Lyudmila Kuzmicheva
18:00 Moscow State University, School of Southern Slavic Studies. Stenton & Trifkovic Lecture: "Russian Foreign Policy and Conflict in Former Yugoslavia"
Thursday, 5 October, 10:30 The Kremlin: Office of the National Security Advisor to the President of Russia. Meeting with Mr Sergei V. Kortunov and a team of experts on former Yugoslavia and European security
Friday, 6 October, 10:00 Russian Academy of Science, Centre for Contemporary Balkan Crisis of the Institute for Slavic and Balkan Studies. Meeting with the team of experts at the Centre (Guskova, Tyagunenko, Karassov)
12:00 Russian-American Press Centre. Press conference and public presentation of the Memorandum by the Lord Byron Foundation "Russia and the End-Game in Former Yugoslavia".
20:00 Rossiya TV: report on the Foundation mission
Saturday, 7 October: Free day. Visit to the Great Fatherland War Memorial Centre
Sunday, 8 October: Sergiyev Possad: attendance at St Sergius' Day high liturgy by Patriarch Alexei II
Monday, 9 October 12:00 Institute of USA & Canada, RAN. Meeting with Dr Alexander A. Konovalov, Director, Center for Military Policy and System Analysis
20:00 Departure for London