7On February 7, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and RIAC member, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and RIAC experts Andrey Kazantsev and Ekaterina Stepanova met with EU policymakers and diplomats engaged in cooperation on fighting terrorism. Moscow welcomed Pedro Serrano, Deputy Secretary General for EU Common Security and Defense Policy, Oliver Onidi, Deputy Director General for Security in European Commission, Gilles de Kerchove, EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, Jean-Christophe Belliard, Political Director for the EEAS and other EU representatives.
On February 7, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and RIAC member, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and RIAC experts Andrey Kazantsev and Ekaterina Stepanova met with EU policymakers and diplomats engaged in cooperation on fighting terrorism.
Moscow welcomed Pedro Serrano, Deputy Secretary General for EU Common Security and Defense Policy, Oliver Onidi, Deputy Director General for Security in European Commission, Gilles de Kerchove, EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, Jean-Christophe Belliard, Political Director for the EEAS and other EU representatives.
The EU high-level delegation arrived in Russia to conduct unofficial, technical consultations on combatting terrorism. The discussion moderated by Vygaudas Ušackas, Head of the European Union's Delegation to Russia, covered comparative estimates of international terrorism threats in Russia and the EU, the dynamics and further direction of political and religious extremism, links between terrorism and migration as well as possible cooperation formats between Russia and European Union in preventing, monitoring and combatting terrorism.
Leonid Gozman, prominent Russian politician, Alexander Kolyandr, Credit Suisse Bank analyst, and Pavel Felgenhauer, military expert, took part in the discussion.
