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On November 22-23, 2019, IMEMO in collaboration with the Russian-Armenian University (RAU), is hold the International Conference "Primakov Readings in Yerevan".

The conference theme is "Armenia in the Global Context".

The conference agenda includes issues of regional security architecture and the role of Armenia in the regional and global context of international politics. Conference participants will discuss the main security challenges in the region, the role of major powers in maintaining balance in the region, and Armenia's foreign policy strategy, including new aspects related to the Velvet Revolution of April 2018. Among the topics of the conference are relations with Russia and strategic partnerships between countries in the region.

Address to conference participants by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov. 

Rector of the Russian-Armenian University Armen Darbinyan, President of IMEMO Alexander Dynkin, and Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Armenia Armen Grigoryan addressed the conference participants with welcoming speeches.

Among the speakers of the conference: Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of IMEMO Alexander Dynkin, Rector of RAU Armen Darbinyan, Director of IMEMO, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Feodor Voitolovsky, Member of IMEMO Directorate, General of the Army, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Trubnikov, Head of the Center for post-Soviet Studies of IMEMO Eduard Solovyev, Head of the Center for Situational Analysis of IMEMO Irina Kobrinskaya, Yale University Professor and Managing Director of Kissinger Associates Thomas Graham, former Finland’s Ambassador to Russia René Nyberg, French politician Pierre Lellouche, experts from Armenia, Russia, and China.

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