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On December 5 Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Institute of socio-economic and political researches (ISEPR Foundation), Centre for Liberal Strategies (Sofia) with the support of National Research University Higher School of Economics held an International Conference «Hypocrisy vs Democracy: Insincerity Destroying the Global Order after the Cold War». About forty experts, journalists and diplomats from Russia, the USA, Bulgaria, Greece, the UK, and Turkey took part in the conference.

On December 5 Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Institute of socio-economic and political researches (ISEPR Foundation), Centre for Liberal Strategies (Sofia) with the support of National Research University Higher School of Economics held an International Conference «Hypocrisy vs Democracy: Insincerity Destroying the Global Order after the Cold War». About forty experts, journalists and diplomats from Russia, the USA, Bulgaria, Greece, the UK, and Turkey took part in the conference. 

The participants discussed the Western and Russian approach to the history of NATO expansion, the promotion of democracy as a geopolitical tool, «Color Revolutions» and «Arab Spring», Ukrainian crisis narrative clash, diplomacy and public policy interaction, the role of hacking in discovering secret agendas, and hypocrisy issues in the world politics in terms of Donald Trump’s accession to power in the USA.

The speakers included: Alexander Aksenyonok, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC member; Sergey Karaganov, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics National Research University, Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy; Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General; Fyodor Lukyanov, RIAC member, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy. 

Conference Program (In Russian)

 

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