FiINROSFORUM 2009 - Minority Rights in Russia

Tämän vuoden FINROSFORUM-tapahtuma järjestetään Helsingissä 25-26.5.2009, Eduskunnan Pikkuparlamentin auditoriossa (osoite Arkadiankatu 3). Seminaari järjestetään yhdessä Eduskunnan ihmisoikeusryhmän kanssa. Tilaisuuteen tarvitaan etukäteisilmoitus eduskunnan turvajärjestelyistä johtuen.

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Theme: “Minority Rights in Russia”

Sunday, 24 May 2009
19:00 … Informal Programme for Invited Guests

Monday, 25 May 2009
08:30 … Registration

09:30 … Opening Words by Organisers
* Ilkka Kantola (Human Rights Group of the Finnish Parliament, Helsinki)
* Heidi Hautala (Finnish-Russian Civic Forum, Helsinki)

09:45 … Presentation: Minority Rights as Human Rights
* Johanna Suurpää (Ombudsman for Minorities, Helsinki)
* Galina Kozhevnikova (SOVA Centre, Moscow) Discussion

11:00 … Coffee Break

11:30 … Panel: Rights of Ethnic and Religious Minorities
* Yelena Ryabinina (Civic Assistance, Moscow)
* Islam Tumsoev (Kafkasya’nin Sesi, Istanbul)
* Fatima Tlisova (Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard)
* Leokadiya Frenkel (Jewish Community Centre, St Petersburg) Discussion
Moderator: Tarja Kantola (Finnish-Russian Civic Forum, Helsinki)

13:00 … Lunch

14:00 … Panel: Rights of Ethnic and Religious Minorities
* Yevgeni Chetvergov (Erzyan Mastor, Saransk)
* Yuri Ignatiev (Mari Ushem, Yoshkar-Ola)
* Eilina Gusatinsky (Spektr, Helsinki)
* Jevgeni Krishtafovitsh (Open Republic, Tallinn) (* Discussion
Moderator: Tarja Kantola (Finnish-Russian Civic Forum, Helsinki)

15:00 … Coffee Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVqieZAuDSQ

15:30 … Panel: Rights of LGBT Community
* Maxim Anmeghichean (ILGA-Europe, Brussels)
* Nina Tagankina (Moscow Helsinki Group, Moscow)
* Nikolay Alexeyev (GayRussia, Moscow)
* Nikolay Bayev (GayRussia, Moscow)
* Igor Kochetkov (Russian LGBT Network, Moscow)
* Gulya Sultanova (Coming Out, St Petersburg) Discussion
Moderator: Outi Hannula (SETA, Helsinki)

17:00 … End of Day One

19:00 … Cultural Programme (Restaurant Yläkerho, Suomenlinna)
* Mikhail Borzykin (Televizor, St Petersburg)
* Alexey Nikonov (PTVP, Vyborg)
Samples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slrtf1kcOs8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVqieZAuDSQ


Tuesday, 26 May 2009
10:00 … Presentation: Political Repression in Russia
* Yelena Sannikova (Right to Life, Moscow)

10:30 … Panel: Political Prisoners in Today’s Russia
* Mikhail Trepashkin (Commission on Fight Against Corruption, Moscow)
* Yelena Maglevannaya (Svobodnoe Slovo, Volgograd) (*
* Sergey Aksenov (Russian Union of Prisoners, Moscow)
* Vyacheslav Feraposhkin (Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners,
Moscow)
* Vladimir Linderman (Za Rodinu, Riga)
* Oksana Chelysheva (Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, Helsinki)
Discussion
Moderator: Kerkko Paananen (Finnish-Russian Civic Forum, Helsinki)

12:00 … Coffee Break

12:30 … Panel: Final Conclusions
* Olga Kurnosova (United Civic Front, St Petersburg)
* Yulia Malysheva (Solidarity, St Petersburg)
* Oleg Kozlovsky (Oborona, Moscow)
* Heidi Hautala (Finnish-Russian Civic Forum, Helsinki)

13:00 … End of Day Two

15:00 … Extra: Buried at Sea
Presentation of Russian journalist Grigory Pasko’s documentary film,
“Buried at Sea,” with a discussion about the Russian-German gas pipeline
project, Nord Stream. The event is organised by the Greens.

Prior registration: http://www.finrosforum.fi/?page_id=2612