Opening and Closing

Bakhmin Vyacheslav Ivanovich

(Russia)

Vyacheslav Bakhmin (1947), was born in Kalinin (now Tver). Graduated from a specialized boarding school ...

Lesia Kharchenko

(Ukraine)

Lesia Kharchenko is a Ukrainian filmmaker and an independent consultant to the “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” ...

Carl Bildt

(Sweden)

Linas Linkevičius

(Lithuania)

Linas Linkevičius has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania since December 2012. Before he was a member of the Seimas, ...

Mike Morgan

(Canada)

Michael Cotey Morgan is associate professor of international history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of ...

Marina Sakharov-Liberman

(United Kingdom)

Marina was born in Moscow. She graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University ...

Sarah B. Snyder

(United States)

Sarah B. Snyder is a historian of U.S. foreign relations who specializes in the history of the Cold War, human rights activism, and U.S. human ...

Robert van Voren

(Netherlands)

Robert van Voren (1959) is Chief Executive of Human Rights in Mental Health - Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry (FGIP) and a ...

Tatiana Yankelevich

(United States)

Tatiana Yankelevich is an independent researcher affiliated with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University ...

Healthy Information Eco-system

David Kaye

(United States)

David Kaye is a clinical professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection...

Robert van der Noordaa

(Netherlands)

Robert van der Noordaa is a freelance Dutch investigative journalist and analyst specialising in Ukraine and Russia. He has been writing ...

Andrey Rikhter

(Russia)

Andrey Rikhter (Andrei Richter) is Senior Adviser at the OSCE Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media. Richter holds university degrees in law...

Patrice Schneider

(Switzerland)

A press freedom enthusiast, Patrice Schneider started his publishing career as a journalist reporting from conflicts in Central Asia at the end of the 1980s...