Business programme
20.05.2025
13:30–15:00

Defending Sovereignty: The Foundation of Development and Security

Congress Centre, conference hall D4
The Age of Heroes – The Rights of Heroes
Broadcast
Sovereignty guarantees the protection of national interests and is an integral feature of any state. In the modern world, not all nations have the ability to fully outline their national interests and be sovereign. According to the National Security Strategy approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin, protecting and ensuring sovereignty is a national interest of the Russian Federation. What role does law play in the system of ensuring a state’s sovereign development? What additional measures must be taken to protect national sovereignty against new global threats? What modern factors influence a country’s ability to ensure its national interests?

Moderator

Irina Yarovaya
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Panellists

Vladimir Gorban
Head of the Department of Philosophy and Law, History and Theory of State and Law, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Viktor Evtukhov
Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation for State Policy in the Sphere of the Defense Industrial Complex
Alexey Kalugin
Advocate, Leningrad Region Bar Association
Maxim Musikhin
Director of the Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Oleg Sviridenko
Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation
Denis Ulanov
Deputy Parliament of the Republic of Moldova
Olga Chupris
Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus

Broadcast

Irina Yarovaya
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Born 17 October 1966. Has a degree in Law, as well as in Public and Municipal Administration.
1988: joined Public Prosecutor’s Office in Kamchatka Territory, where she held positions of the Deputy City Prosecutor of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and the Head of Investigation Department in Kamchatka Territory.
Since 1997: won single-member district election to the Council of People’s Deputies of Kamchatka Territory twice.
2007 and 2011: elected Deputy of the State Duma (Member of the United Russia Party). First female Chairperson of State Duma Security and Anti-Corruption Committee in the history of Russia’s parliaments.
2016: headed the regional group №1 of the Federal list of Candidates for Deputy of the 4th State Duma from the United Russia Party (Kamchatka Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Amur Region, Magadan Region, Jewish Autonomous Region, Chukotka Autonomous District).
In 2016 elected Deputy Chairperson of the State Duma.
According to expert polls, she is one of Duma’s five most efficient Deputies. Authored over 200 legislative acts.
Most memorable acts for the Far East include: ban on drift fishing, ban on multiple border crossing by fishing vessels, compulsory registration of fishing facilities in the region where fishing is held, simplified call at the Far-Eastern ports for international cruise lines.
Head of the Central Control Commission of the United Russia Party.
Member of the Russian Language Arts Society, headed by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Rus.
Vladimir Gorban
Head of the Department of Philosophy and Law, History and Theory of State and Law, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir S. Gorban – Head of the Sector of Philosophy of Law, History and Theory of State and Law, Head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Philosophical and Legal Studies of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Law, Chairman of the Dissertation Council 24.1.058.01 at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Many years of experience in research and teaching activities in leading Russian and Western European scientific and educational centers.
Winner of competitions: grants of the President of the Russian Federation in support of young scientists, candidates, doctors of sciences and leading scientific schools (2007-2008); programs of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2008-2009, 2010, 2018), a scholarship of the President of the Russian Federation, a scholarship of the Federal Chancellor of Germany.
Awarded the silver medal of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation "For Assistance", Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Viktor Evtukhov
Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation for State Policy in the Sphere of the Defense Industrial Complex
Alexey Kalugin
Advocate, Leningrad Region Bar Association
Maxim Musikhin
Director of the Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Date and place of birth: 14 November 1975, Moscow, USSR.
Education

1997 Graduated from Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO), Faculty of International Law, Diploma in International Law.
Present position

Director, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia.

Diplomatic Rank Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Positions held

2019-2023 Deputy Director, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia.
2014-2018 Head of Legal Section, Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations in New York.
2011-2014 Head of Section, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia.
1997-2011 Various positions, Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russia; Embassy of Russia and Mission to the OPCW in the Hague; Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations Office in Geneva.
2020-present Adjudicator, Panel of Adjudicators of the OSCE.
Oleg Sviridenko
Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation
Denis Ulanov
Deputy Parliament of the Republic of Moldova
Olga Chupris
Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus
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