The online event took place on the eve of the day when 80 years ago Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n
The special guests were WWII veterans of anti-Hitler coalition from Latvia, USA and Britain.
\nParticipants of webinar analysed how to apply the lessons of history to contemporary politics.<\/p>\n
Speakers from USA, Russia, Britain and the EU were given the floor to express their position on controversial issues of the EU-Russia relationship and, more widely, on East-West relations.<\/p>\n
Panel I Memories of veterans of the anti-Hitler coalition<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Alexander Asopyan (Latvia), born 1930, pupil of the 110th Guards Rifle Division named after Suvorov<\/p>\n \u2022 Baden Hall (UK), born 1926, member of the Arctic Convoys, served on \u201cZodiac\u201d, a Royal Navy destroyer<\/p>\n Panel II How to apply the lessons of history to contemporary politics<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Tatjana \u017ddanoka (Latvia), Member of the European Parliament, Vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Moldova PCC<\/p>\n \u2022 Vladimir Chizhov (Russia), Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary<\/p>\n \u2022 Jack Matlock (USA), former US Ambassador in Moscow (1987-1991)<\/p>\n \u2022 Vyacheslav Nikonov (Russia), Member of the Russian State Duma, Chair of the Committee on Education and Science<\/p>\n \u2022 Miroslav Rada\u010dovsk\u00fd (Slovakia), Member of the European Parliament, Member of the Delegation to the EU-Russia PCC<\/p>\n \u2022 Andrey Klimov (Russia), Member of the Russian Federation Council, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Chair of the Delegation to the Russia-EU PCC (tbc)<\/p>\n \u2022 Bill Bowring (UK), Professor of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London<\/p>\n \u2022 Oxana Gaman-Golutvina (Russia), Head of Comparative Politics Department, MGIMO-University, President of Russian Political Science Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The online event took place on the eve of the day when 80 years ago Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The special guests were WWII veterans of anti-Hitler coalition from Latvia, USA and Britain. Participants of webinar analysed how to apply the lessons of history to contemporary politics. Speakers from USA, Russia, Britain and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-our-mer","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rusojuz.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}