The seminar “Sapere aude: Freedom and the Rule of Law” organised by the Association of Schools of Political Studies, in co-operation with the Valsaín Foundation and with the support of the Council of Europe and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) was held in Segovia, Spain, on 30 May - 2 June 2016. The seminar was attended by 57 young decision-makers and opinion-formers from Armenia, Belarus, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine.

Among topics discussed were “Global world: limits of control and freedom”, “Rule of law: right as an extent of exercise of freedom”, “History: self-evolution of a man in history as a process of modification of freedom”, “Freedom as a foundation for itself” and many others.

Programme

Videos (in Russian)

Tatiana Kastueva-Jean: Russia and the West: roots and depth of conflict 

Vladislav Inozemtsev: What became of democracies in the modern world 

Tatiana Vorozheikina: Institutes and democracy today: Cases of Spain and Brazil

Vadim Kluvgant: Human rights and the rule of law 

Sergei Pashin: Evolution of the trial jury in Russia 

Kirill Rogov: Society, media, authoritarianism 

Nikita Sokolov: Academics, memory and politics of history in Russia: engagement and interaction 

Alexey Shmelev, Elena Shmeleva: Public life from the perspective of language 

Talk to Vladimir Lukin 

Arseny Roginsky: Russian NGOs today 

Yury Senokosov: Closing remarks 

Photos