by Georgy Kalatozishvili, Tbilisi. Exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza
The Ambassador Hotel in Tbilisi is hosting the first meeting of the leading Russian experts and scientists to discuss Russian-Georgian relations and the situation in South Caucasus.
Alexey Vlasov, Executive Director of the North-South Center for Political Analysis, Yaroslav Skvortsov, Dean of the International Journalism Faculty of MGIMO, and Nikolai Silayev, director of the political section of the Expert Journal, made the first speeches.
Sergey Mikheyev, Director of the Center for Political Conjuncture, called the meeting unprecedented.
Fedor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of the Russia in Global Affairs Journal, read a lecture about the reasons Russian foreign affairs were interesting for media. He discussed global tendencies, including developments on the post-Soviet and the Middle Eastern space, retrospectives of the events since the collapse of the USSR, development of new post-Soviet identities, formation of the Russian civil nation and the Eurasian Union.
