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Event | 10 April 2015

ELN Director speaks on the future of Russia-West relations in Riga

Russia-West Relations Euro-Atlantic Security

The event featured Prof. Dr. Janos Martonyi (former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary), Dr. Ian Kearns (Co-Founder and Director, European Leadership Network), Dr. Margarita Šešelgytė (Associate professor, Studies Director, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Lithuania), Dr. Igor Yurgens (President, All Russia Insurance Association) and Mr. Karsten Voigt (Board member of the German Council on Foreign Relations and of the Atlantik-Brücke). The discussion was moderated by Mr. Kārlis Bukovskis (Deputy Director, Latvian Institute of International Affairs). Organized by the LIIA with support of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the European Leadership Network and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

 

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