The Harriman Institute / Associated Press Conference

[Gordon N. Bardos, gnb12@columbia.edu]

The Seventh Annual Associated Press/
                              Harriman Institute Conference

                                   Russia After Yeltsin

                                   Friday, May 5, 2000

                       International Affairs Building, 15th Floor
                       Columbia University in the City of New York
                                  420 West 118th Street

9:00am  Registration and Coffee

9:30am Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Ambassador William Luers, President and Chairman, United Nations
Association of the US, and Thomas Kent, Deputy Managing Editor, Associated
Press

9:45am PANEL I: RUSSIA’S CHANGING POLITICAL SCENE

Chair:  Ambassador John Matlock, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
University, and former US Ambassador to the USSR

Panelists:  Stephen F. Cohen, New York University

Alexander Motyl, Rutgers University

Katherine Stoner-Weiss, Princeton University

12:00 LUNCHEON AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS –
 Thomas Graham, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

2:00 PANEL II: THE FUTURE OF ECONOMIC REFORM – PROGRESS OR STAGNATION?

Chair:  Allen Sinai, Primark Decision Economics

Panelists: Rose Brady, Buisnessweek

Padma Desai, Columbia University

Richard Ericson, Columbia University

4:00 PANEL III: WESTERN MEIDA COVERAGE OF RUSSIA

Chair:   Thomas Kent, Associated Press

Panelists:  John Heintz, Associated Press Moscow Bureau

David Johnson, Center for Defense Information, and Editor, Johnson’s Russia
List

Serge Schmemann, The New York Times

Closing Remarks by Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Assistant Director, Harriman
Institute, Columbia University

6:00 Reception

Registration Fee: $85.  For more information, please contact our program
officer, Gordon N. Bardos, by phone at (212) 854-8487, or be email at
gnb12 at columbia.edu.

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