The seminar will focus on civil society, global world, economy, politics, rule of law, mass media and responsibility of every citizen. You will be able to hear and watch eminent international experts such as:

- Ludmila ALEXEEVA, “Moscow Helsinki Group”, Chairperson
- Richard BACON, MP, House of Commons, UK Parliament; Senior member of the Public Accounts Committee
- Zachary LEADER, Professor of English Literature at Roehampton University
- John LLOYD, Contributing Editor, The Financial Times
- Ian McEWAN, Novelist, Screenwriter; Winner of the Booker prize (1998), Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society (2011) and many others; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Royal Society of Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Arkady OSTROVSKY, Moscow Bureau Chief, The Economist
- Irina PROKHOROVA, Chief Editor of the New Literary Observer publishing house; Leader of the Civic Platform party
- Arseny ROGINSKY, Historian, founder of the human rights organisation “Memorial”
- Anatoly VISHNEVSKY, Director, Institute of Demography, National Research University, Higher School of Economics
- Evgeny YASIN, President of the Foundation Liberal Mission; Academic Supervisor, National Research University Higher School of Economics

You can download the preliminary programme in English here: http://msps.su/seminar/705/
The preliminary programme in Russian here: http://msps.su/seminar/681/

Join the seminar broadcast live on Wednesday 23 April as from 9.30 am (Moscow time) on the MSPS website:

Broadcasting in English http://msps.su/story/21665
Broadcasting in Russian http://msps.su/story/21668
 

and on YouTube

Alumni Meeting - 23.04.2014
http://www.youtube.com/embed/XcHt2YfXYN8

Alumni Meeting - 24.04.2014
http://www.youtube.com/embed/4K5_ADMP_ps

Alumni Meeting - 25.04.2014
http://www.youtube.com/embed/m9CoT3KmzBs