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What are the main features of the world order promoted by the Russian Federation today, and what specific measures and ideas does Russia propose to the world? This question has been on the minds of theorists and practitioners of modern international relations for many years, and finding a simple answer to it is likely impossible. Through the vigorous debate between theoreticians and practitioners, we are moving closer to the truth. Russia offers a fundamentally different vision of the global order compared to the positions of other players in the international arena. This vision encompasses joint efforts not only within the existing institutions and negotiating platforms of the multipolar world (BRICS, the African Union, the SCO, etc.) but also involves the majority of the world at large. It places a particular emphasis on upholding traditional values and advocates for coordinated efforts in a post-globalization landscape. How can the positions of Russia’s political, expert, and cultural communities be consolidated? What is the architecture of the new world order?

Moderator
Dmitry Stolkov, Active State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 3rd Class; Candidate of Political Sciences

Dmitry Stolkov

Active State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 3rd Class; Candidate of Political Sciences

Panellists
Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Alexander Pankin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Leonid Slutskiy, Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on International Affairs
Anatoly Torkunov, Rector, MGIMO University

Konstantin Kosachev

Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, representative of the executive authority of the Republic of Mari El.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for relations with the CIS member states.
Ph.D. in law.

Since 2021 Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Head of the Department if International relations of Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

2014 - 2021 Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council, Vice-President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

2012 - 2014 Head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo)

2011 - 2012 Deputy of the State Duma of the sixth convocation

2007 - 2011 Deputy of the State Duma of the fifth convocation,
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee

2003 - 2007 Deputy of the State Duma of the fourth convocation, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee

1999 - 2003 Deputy of the State Duma of the third convocation, Deputy Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee

1998 - 1999 Advisor, Assistant on International Affairs, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Chairman of the Government of Russia (E.Primakov)
Work experience
Awards:
• the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, 3th grade
• the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, 4th grade
• the Order of Alexander Nevsky (Russia)
• the Order of Friendship (Russia)
• the Order of Honor (Russia)
• the P.A.Stolypin Medal
• the Medal of the Order of Merit to the Chuvash Republic
• the Royal Order of the Polar Star (Kungliga Nordstjärneorden) (Sweden)
• the Order of Merit "Grand Cross Star" (Hungary)
• "Samara Cross" (Bulgaria) and the Order of Friendship (South Ossetia)
• the Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Serbia
• the Medal of the Order of Merit to the Republic of Mari El

Education:
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Family status
Married, 3 children

Alexander Pankin

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Responsible for issues related to Eurasian integration and economic cooperation.
Born in 1963.
1985: graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Fluent in English and Hungarian.
Since 1985: gained extensive experience working both in the Ministry’s central office and abroad.
2001-2005: Senior Adviser with Russia’s Permanent Mission to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva.
2005-2010: Deputy Director of the Department of International Organisations at the Foreign Ministry.
2010-2014: First Deputy Director of Russia’s Permanent Mission to the UN in New York.
2014-2017: Director of the Department of International Organisations at the Foreign Ministry.
Since 2016: member of the Foreign Ministry Collegium.
Since October 2017: Deputy Foreign Minister.
Awards: letters of acknowledgement from the President and the Government of the Russian Federation and departmental awards.
Holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, First Class (conferred on August 15, 2013).
Married, with a daughter.

Leonid Slutskiy

Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on International Affairs

Anatoly Torkunov

Rector, MGIMO University

Anatoly V. Torkunov is the Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). He holds an MA and two doctoral degrees in History and Political Science.
Prof. Anatoly V. Torkunov is a leading expert on Russian foreign policy, regional subsystems in Asia-Pacific Region and North-Eastern Asia, history of Korea, history of diplomacy. He is the author of more than 200 publications, including 9 individual monographs. Several of them were published in the USA, South Korea, Japan, Poland and other countries.
Professor Torkunov also holds positions of the Chairman of the Russia-UN Association; President of the Russian International Studies Association; Member of the Academic Council at the Security Council of Russia; Member of the Board of the Russian Diplomatic Association; Chairman of the Curricula Development Association of Russian Schools of International Relations, Co-Chairman of Russian-Polish Group on Difficult Matters, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Russian Channel One.