On April 28, the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad held an opening of the international scientific and public forum '70th anniversary of the Great Victory: historical lessons of the past and the political challenges of modernity'. The event was organized by the Russian Political Science Association (RPSA), and supported by the government of the Kaliningrad region. Experts and researchers of the leading educational centers in the post-Soviet space, Austria, Serbia, the Netherlands, Great Britain, India, Iran and other countries attended the ceremony.
Azerbaijan was represented by a leading researcher of the Department of International Relations and International Law of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law of Azerbaijan, Lily Mirzazade.
As co-chair of the RPSA, the dean of the Faculty of Political Science of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Andrei Shutov, noted in his speech at the plenary session that the theme of the forum is very important, because historical events are treated differently now and do not always reflect reality.
The Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the North-West Federal District, Vladimir Soloviev, drew attention to the problem of preservation of historical memory. "This lessons are starting from school, college, museums and libraries. If we do not pay due attention to our historical past, we will forget about our national interests, and some will use this power." He also read out a message from Russian President Vladimir Putin.The chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, Vladimir Pligin, a professor at the University of Kent in Canterbury, Richard Sakwa, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaei, and the dean of the Graduate School of Television at MSU, Vitaly Tretyakov, delivered messages during the plenary session.
The Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the North-West Federal District, Vladimir Soloviev, drew attention to the problem of preservation of historical memory. "This lessons are starting from school, college, museums and libraries. If we do not pay due attention to our historical past, we will forget about our national interests, and some will use this power." He also read out a message from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, Vladimir Pligin, a professor at the University of Kent in Canterbury, Richard Sakwa, Iranian Ambassador to Russia Mehdi Sanaei, and the dean of the Graduate School of Television at MSU, Vitaly Tretyakov, delivered messages during the plenary session.
