April, 21

Date

 Event

Plenary Meeting
(Large Assembly Room, State Council, the Komi Republic)

Congress Opening:

- Opening speech by the Governor of the Komi Republic
- Welcome addresses

Reports:

Social and economic development of the North as a necessary condition for the country development
Keynote speaker:
- Vladimir Torlopov, Governor (co-chairman of the Congress Organizing Committee), D.soc.

The future of the Russian North: the doctrinal background for the social and environmental policies
Keynote speaker:
- Mr. Valery Chereshnev, Academician, RAS; Head, the Ural Branch, RAS; Director, Institute of Immunology and Physiology, the Ural Branch, the RAS; Chairman of the All-National Ecological Forum of Russia; co-chairman of the Congress Organizing Committee

The Arctic exclusive values and the current trends of altered environment
Reporter:
- Mr. Yuri Martin, Rector, European University (Tallinn), Doctor of Biology (Ecology); Academician, Academy of Sciences of Estonia; Co-chairman of the World-Wide Ecological Academy

Plenary Meeting (resumption)

Reports:

Man in the North: demographical, health and environmental aspects
Reporter:
- Mr. Mikhail Roshevsky, Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences; Presidium Chairman of the Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
- Mr. Anatoly Taskayev, Director, Institute of Biology, Komi Science Centre; Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Joint researches of the circumpolar North of Canada and Russia conducted together with the indigenous people. Problems of indigenous people cultural preservation in globalization context
Reporter:
- Mr. Jim McDonald, Vice-President, Association of Universities and Colleges – Researches of the North, Professor

The Arctic Window of the international cooperation in the North of Russia: perspectives and problems
Reporters:
- Mr. Alexander Popov, Doctor of History, Professor; Chairman of Komi Regional Expert Council of Russian Humanitarian Scientific Fund “The Russian North: History, the Present, Perspectives”;
- Mr. Yuri Deryabin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Director, Centre for Northern Europe, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Plenary Meeting (resumption)

Reports:

The Northern dwellers interests: social and the environmental landmarks and the Northern community development national strategy aspects
Reporter:
- Mr. Igor Vassilyev, Deputy, Federation Council

The Arctic as an object of lawmaking
Reporter:
- Mr. Ivan Kulakov, Chairman, State Council, the Komi Republic

Social protection policies reformation in globalization environment (the report based on the materials of the Komi Republic)
Reporter:
- Mrs. Vera Skorobogatova, Vice-Governor, the Komi Republic

Multinational Arctic: state, cultural poly-ethnicity
Reporters:
- Mrs. Maria Kuzbozheva, Minister of Culture and National Policies, the Komi Republic
- Mr. Valery Markov, Chairman, Social Organization “Komi Voytur”
- Mr. Alexander Smetanin, Deputy Director, Komi Language, Literature and History Institute, Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch of the RAS
- Mr. Alexey Beznosikov, Vice-Chairman, State Council, the Komi Republic
- Mr. Alexander Popov, Doctor of History, Professor, Deputy Director, Komi Language, Literature and History Institute, Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch, RAS

Life cost and labour value in the Russian North
Reporter:
- Mr. Vyacheslav Bobkov, Director, All-Russian Centre of Living Standards

Beginning of the work

- meeting of the Coordination Board for Social Strategies at the Chair of the Federal Council (venue: room 211, Kommunisticheskaya St., Small Assembly Room, State Council of the Komi Republic);

- VI meeting of the Russian All-National Environmental Forum (venue: 4th floor, 9, Kommunisticheskaya St., Small Assembly Hall, Government of the Komi Republic)

Plenary meeting (resumption)

Reports:

The Russian Arctic: knowledgeable society building
- Mr. Oleg Kuznetsov, President, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; Director, All-Russian Research and Design Technology Institute for Geological, Geophysical and Geo-Chemical Structures, Rector, Dybna University

Cultural and natural heritage of the Russian North: a systematic approach, complex study programmes
Reporters:
- Mr. Yuri Vedenin, Director, Russian Institute for Cultural and Nature Heritage after Dmitry Likhachev;
- Mr. Pavel Shulgin, Deputy Director, Russian Institute for Cultural and Nature Heritage after Dmitry Likhachev

Science-Based policy potentials in maintaining the strategies of sustainable development in the northern communities within a global change context
Reporters:
- Mr. Valery Rasstorguyev, Academician, Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Director, Moscow State University Training Programme “Environmental Policies”, Chair, Polytology Theory, Moscow State University;
- Mrs. Natalya Malysheva, Federal Assembly Chairman’s Adviser

The national economy approach for the Northern community development
Reporter:
- Mr. Vitaly Lazhentsev, Director, Institute of the Northern Social and Economic and Energy Problems, Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch, AS; RAS Associate Member; Vice-Chairman, Presidium of the Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch, RAS

Russian humanitarian scientific fund and humanitarian researches in the North of Russia
Reporter:
- Mr. Lev Astakhin,Chief, regional and international programmes department, Russian State NGOMineral resources in the European North of RussiaReporter:
- Mr. Igor Burtsev, Deputy Director, Institute of Geology, Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch, RAS
- Mr. Nikolay Jushkin, Academician, Director, Institute of Geology, Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences- Mr. Alexander Borovinskykh, Minister, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the Komi Republic

Plenary meeting (resumption)

Reports:

Problems of population security in the European North of Russia
Reporter:
- Mr. Pavel Sidorov, RAS Merited Scientist; Academician, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences; Rector, Northern State Medical University

Specific regional strategy in developing the North in a sustainable way
Reporters:
- Mr. Vladimir Anykeyev, Academician, The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Board Chairman, Russian Environmental Independent Expertise
- Mr. Anatoly Panfilov, Chairman, Presidium of the Central Council, Russian Green Party 

Formation of the circumpolar belt unified educational environment
Reporters:
- Mr. Nikolay Tskhadaya, Rector, Uchta State Technical University
- Mr. Alexey Izyanov, Minister, Education and High School, the Komi Republic
- Mr. Valery Gribanov, Rector, Komi Republican Academy of Public Office and Management at the Office of the head of the Komi Republic
- Mr. Vassily Zadorozhny, Rector, Syktyvkar State University
- Mr. Nikolay Bolshakov, Rector, Syktyvkar Forest Institute
- Ms. Tatyana Navazova, Rector, Komi Republican Institute of Education Development and Staff Development

“Cleaner Production” programme in the Russian North (JSC “Norilsky Nickel” as an example)
Reporter:
- Mr. Alexander Tsygankov, Director, Russian-Norwegian programme “Cleaner Production”

Limited company “LUKiol-Komi” social programmes participation
Reporter:
- Mr. Vladimir Mulyak, Director General, Limited Company “LUKoil Komi”

Perspectives of chemistry development and development of renewable natural raw-materials technologies in the North
Reporter:
- Mr. Alexander Kuchin, RAS Corresponding Member; Director, Institute of Chemistry, Komi Scientific Centre, Ural Branch, RAS