On May 19, 2015, RAS Institute for the U.S.A. and Canadian Studies held annual Arbatov Readings commemorating Academician Georgy Arbatov, the Institute’s first director. Traditionally timed to Academician Arbatov’s birthday, the event was attended by Russian scholars, experts and journalists, as well as officials of the U.S. Embassy to Moscow headed by Deputy Chief of Mission Lynne Tracy, who discussed problems related with preservation and advancement of U.S.-related research, interaction between studies and political practice, and topical issues of Russian-American relations and U.S. foreign policy.
The speakers’ list included RIAC members, among them academicians Vitaly Zhurkin and Sergey Rogov, Director of Moscow Carnegie Center Dmitry Trenin and RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, as well as RIAC experts – IMEMO Deputy Director Fyodor Voitolovsky and Deputy Director of Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies Victor Kremenyuk.
On May 19, 2015, RAS Institute for the U.S.A. and Canadian Studies held annual Arbatov Readings commemorating Academician Georgy Arbatov, the Institute’s first director.
Traditionally timed to Academician Arbatov’s birthday, the event was attended by Russian scholars, experts and journalists, as well as officials of the U.S. Embassy to Moscow headed by Deputy Chief of Mission Lynne Tracy, who discussed problems related with preservation and advancement of U.S.-related research, interaction between studies and political practice, and topical issues of Russian-American relations and U.S. foreign policy.
The speakers’ list included RIAC members, among them academicians Vitaly Zhurkin and Sergey Rogov, Director of Moscow Carnegie Center Dmitry Trenin and RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, as well as RIAC experts – IMEMO Deputy Director Fyodor Voitolovsky and Deputy Director of Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies Victor Kremenyuk.
