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21.05.2025
12:00–13:30
“In the Beginning was the Word”: Interpreting Traditional Values and Their Integration into Law
Congress Centre, conference hall D1
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Decree No. 809 of the Russian President dated 9 November 2022 approved the Fundamentals of State Policy for the Preservation and Strengthening of Traditional Russian Spiritual and Moral Values, and established a list of traditional spiritual and moral values. The primary goal of the decree is to protect the Russian state and public against the negative impact of destructive practices and hostile ideologies that have been developed and imposed by unfriendly countries and used as a weapon against Russia. However, the provisions contained in the decree have not been disclosed, which makes it even more important to conduct further work to describe the actual traditional spiritual and moral values, reveal their content, and determine how they are to be implemented in practice. In addition, it is crucial to define the boundaries of state interventions in the legal regulation of culture in order to maintain a balance and effectively implement state policy.
Moderator
Vladimir Solovyev
Journalist, Anchor on the Television Show "Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov"
Panellists
Maria Zakharova
Director, Department of Information and the Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Nikolay Kropachev
Rector, St. Petersburg University
Abbess Xenia (Chernega)
Head of the Legal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate; Abbess, Alekseevsky Stauropegial Convent
Aleksey Pushkov
Senator of the Russian Federation; Chairman of the Commission of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Information Policy and Cooperation with the Media; Author and Host of the Analytical Program "Postscriptum"
Alexander Savenkov
Director, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Konstantin Chuychenko
Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation
Broadcast
Vladimir Solovyev
Journalist, Anchor on the Television Show "Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov"
Vladimir Solovyov (born October 10, 1963) – journalist, radio and television presenter. Graduated MISIS and did postgraduate studies at Institute of World Economics and Public Relations, holds PhD in Economics. In the early 1990s lived and worked in the US.
Between 1997 and 2010 hosted Solovyinie Treli on Serebryaniy Dozhd radio. Works on TV since 1999 where hosted a variety of shows such as Process (ORT), Strasti po Solovyevu (TNT), Zavtrak s Solovyevim and Solovyinaya Noch (TV-6), Smotrite Kto Prishel and Poedinok (TVC), Apelsinovy Sok and K Bar’eru (NTV). Since September, 2010 hosts Poedinok and Voskresny Vecher on Russia-1 TV channel and polniy Kontakt on Vesti FM radio.
Solovyev wrote a number of books, such as Emprie of Corruption, Enemies of Russia, Manipulations. Attack and Defend, We’re Russians. God is with Us, Putin. Medvedyev. What’s Next? Solovyev vs. Solovyev, Putin. Guidebook for the Empathetic, Russian Roulette, and others.
Delivers one-man shows at MKHAT in Moscow twice a year as well as public performances in St Petersburg and all over Russia and lectures and trainings for top-management of Russian companies.
Married, has 8 children.
Between 1997 and 2010 hosted Solovyinie Treli on Serebryaniy Dozhd radio. Works on TV since 1999 where hosted a variety of shows such as Process (ORT), Strasti po Solovyevu (TNT), Zavtrak s Solovyevim and Solovyinaya Noch (TV-6), Smotrite Kto Prishel and Poedinok (TVC), Apelsinovy Sok and K Bar’eru (NTV). Since September, 2010 hosts Poedinok and Voskresny Vecher on Russia-1 TV channel and polniy Kontakt on Vesti FM radio.
Solovyev wrote a number of books, such as Emprie of Corruption, Enemies of Russia, Manipulations. Attack and Defend, We’re Russians. God is with Us, Putin. Medvedyev. What’s Next? Solovyev vs. Solovyev, Putin. Guidebook for the Empathetic, Russian Roulette, and others.
Delivers one-man shows at MKHAT in Moscow twice a year as well as public performances in St Petersburg and all over Russia and lectures and trainings for top-management of Russian companies.
Married, has 8 children.
Maria Zakharova
Director, Department of Information and the Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Born December 24, 1975, in Moscow
Graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1998 in the field of international journalism. Has the diplomatic rank of Envoy extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the first class.
Joined the Russian Foreign Ministry after graduation. Worked as an editor of the monthly magazine “Diplomatic bulletin”. Acted as the head of the Media operational monitoring department of the Information and Press Department. Worked as Head of the press service of the Permanent Mission of Russia to the UN in New York from 2005 to 2008. Held various positions in the Central Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2011. Worked as Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2015.
Appointed Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in August 2015.
Candidate of Historical Sciences.
Member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy of Russia, a member of the Board of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Speaks English and Chinese fluently.
Graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1998 in the field of international journalism. Has the diplomatic rank of Envoy extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the first class.
Joined the Russian Foreign Ministry after graduation. Worked as an editor of the monthly magazine “Diplomatic bulletin”. Acted as the head of the Media operational monitoring department of the Information and Press Department. Worked as Head of the press service of the Permanent Mission of Russia to the UN in New York from 2005 to 2008. Held various positions in the Central Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2011. Worked as Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2015.
Appointed Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in August 2015.
Candidate of Historical Sciences.
Member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy of Russia, a member of the Board of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Speaks English and Chinese fluently.
Nikolay Kropachev
Rector, St. Petersburg University
Abbess Xenia (Chernega)
Head of the Legal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate; Abbess, Alekseevsky Stauropegial Convent
Aleksey Pushkov
Chairman of the Commission of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Information Policy and Cooperation with the Media; Senator of the Russian Federation
Russian Senator and Chairman of Federation Council's Commission on Information Policy and Cooperation with the Media.
Born 10 August 1954 in Moscow.
Higher Education: graduated in 1976 from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a specialization in International Relations.
Speaks two foreign languages: English, French.
Candidate of Historical Sciences.
1983–1988 – Editor-Consultant to Problems of Peace and Socialism/World Marxist Review (Prague).
1988–1991 – Consultant of the International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991–1995 – Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti (Moscow News)
1995–1998 – Deputy General Director, Public Russian Television (ORT)
From 1998 – Head, Author, and Anchor of Postscriptum (TV Centre).
2004–2016 – Member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
2008–2011 – Director of the Institute of Current International Issues of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
2011–2016 – Member of the State Duma from Perm Territory. Chair of the Committee on International Affairs of the 6th convocation of the State Duma.
From 2004 – Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation
He holds honourary degrees from Moscow University for the Humanities (MosGU), Russian-Armenian University (Yerevan), and Azerbaijan University of Languages (Baku).
Author of seven books on Russian foreign policy and international relations. His book Globalnye shakhmaty. Russkaya partiya (Global Chess: The Russian Game; Moscow, 2018) has also been published in France.
He has been awarded the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’ 3rd and 4th class, the Order of Honour, and the Order of Friendship. He has also been bestowed the Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour (2020) and a Letter of Appreciation from the President of the Russian Federation. He is a laureate of the Russian Ludwig Nobel Prize and a number of other public and professional awards. He is a member of the MGIMO University Board of Trustees, St. Petersburg Dialogue Forum Coordinating Committee, Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, and the Public Council of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Married, with a daughter.
Born 10 August 1954 in Moscow.
Higher Education: graduated in 1976 from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a specialization in International Relations.
Speaks two foreign languages: English, French.
Candidate of Historical Sciences.
1983–1988 – Editor-Consultant to Problems of Peace and Socialism/World Marxist Review (Prague).
1988–1991 – Consultant of the International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991–1995 – Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti (Moscow News)
1995–1998 – Deputy General Director, Public Russian Television (ORT)
From 1998 – Head, Author, and Anchor of Postscriptum (TV Centre).
2004–2016 – Member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.
2008–2011 – Director of the Institute of Current International Issues of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
2011–2016 – Member of the State Duma from Perm Territory. Chair of the Committee on International Affairs of the 6th convocation of the State Duma.
From 2004 – Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation
He holds honourary degrees from Moscow University for the Humanities (MosGU), Russian-Armenian University (Yerevan), and Azerbaijan University of Languages (Baku).
Author of seven books on Russian foreign policy and international relations. His book Globalnye shakhmaty. Russkaya partiya (Global Chess: The Russian Game; Moscow, 2018) has also been published in France.
He has been awarded the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’ 3rd and 4th class, the Order of Honour, and the Order of Friendship. He has also been bestowed the Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour (2020) and a Letter of Appreciation from the President of the Russian Federation. He is a laureate of the Russian Ludwig Nobel Prize and a number of other public and professional awards. He is a member of the MGIMO University Board of Trustees, St. Petersburg Dialogue Forum Coordinating Committee, Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, and the Public Council of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
Married, with a daughter.
Alexander Savenkov
Director, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Director of the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences; Fellow Correspondent of Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Russian statesman, and legal scholar.
Professional background:
Since 1985, served in a Military Prosecutor’s Office, since 1994 in the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office. He headed Military Prosecutor’s offices of the Siberian and Moscow military command regions. In 2002 he was appointed First Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor.
On 10 June 2002, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation appointed Mr Savenkov Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation – Chief Military Prosecutor.
2006–2008 First Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.
2009–2013 Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for the Vladimir Region.
In 2014, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation – Head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In 2017, he took leadership of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Merits, awards, achievements:
He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Motherland 3rd and 4th degrees, Order of Alexander Nevsky and Order of Honour. He is a recipient of more than 50 medals and departmental awards of Russia and foreign countries. He was honoured with Recognition Certificates by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Professional background:
Since 1985, served in a Military Prosecutor’s Office, since 1994 in the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office. He headed Military Prosecutor’s offices of the Siberian and Moscow military command regions. In 2002 he was appointed First Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor.
On 10 June 2002, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation appointed Mr Savenkov Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation – Chief Military Prosecutor.
2006–2008 First Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.
2009–2013 Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for the Vladimir Region.
In 2014, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation – Head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In 2017, he took leadership of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Merits, awards, achievements:
He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Motherland 3rd and 4th degrees, Order of Alexander Nevsky and Order of Honour. He is a recipient of more than 50 medals and departmental awards of Russia and foreign countries. He was honoured with Recognition Certificates by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Konstantin Chuychenko
Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation
Born on July 12, 1965 in Lipetsk.
Graduated from the law faculty of Leningrad State University in 1987.
1987–1989 – intern and investigator for the Prosecutor's Office in Leningrad, Kalininskii District.
1989–1992 – served as an officer in the security services.
1992–1994 – Managing Director of Interiuraudit De Faria and T (joint stock company).
1994–2001 – member of the Saint Petersburg International Bar Association.
2001–2002 – Head of Gazprom’s Legal Department.
2002–2008 – Head of Gazprom’s Legal Department, member of the board at Gazprom.
Since May 13, 2008 – Aide to the President of the Russian Federation and Head of the Presidential Control Directorate.
Graduated from the law faculty of Leningrad State University in 1987.
1987–1989 – intern and investigator for the Prosecutor's Office in Leningrad, Kalininskii District.
1989–1992 – served as an officer in the security services.
1992–1994 – Managing Director of Interiuraudit De Faria and T (joint stock company).
1994–2001 – member of the Saint Petersburg International Bar Association.
2001–2002 – Head of Gazprom’s Legal Department.
2002–2008 – Head of Gazprom’s Legal Department, member of the board at Gazprom.
Since May 13, 2008 – Aide to the President of the Russian Federation and Head of the Presidential Control Directorate.