Thirty Years On: Is There Still a Post-Soviet Space?
15 November 2021
Video recording of public panel discussion on the prospects for future relations between the EU and its neighbours to the East
To commemorate the dissolution of the Soviet Union 30 years ago, the International Institute for Peace, in cooperation with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Multilateral Dialogue Vienna, the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), and with the support of the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna convene a public panel discussion.
On the panel
Philipp Ther (keynote speech), Professor of Central European History at the University of Vienna
Vasily Astrov, Economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
Tinatin Khidasheli, Chair of Civic IDEA, former Georgian Defense Minister
Kristi Raik, Director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute at the ICDS
Tatiana Romanova, Associate Professor at St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Sebastian Schäffer, Managing Director at the Institute for Danube Region and Central Europe
Hannes Swoboda (Moderation), President of the IIP and former MEP